As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BOARD
The Board of Supervisors of Lehigh Township, or its authorized
representative.
CAMP
A travel trailer camp, as herein defined.
CUL-DE-SAC STREET
A short dead-end street terminating in a vehicular turnaround
area.
INTERNAL STREET
A street in a mobile home park or travel trailer camp privately
owned, constructed and maintained, which functions only to provide
direct access to individual mobile home lots or travel trailer spaces,
and does not connect directly to and provide access to or from a public
street adjacent to the mobile home park or travel trailer camp.
LICENSE
A written document issued by the Board of Supervisors allowing
a person to operate and maintain a mobile home park or travel trailer
camp under the provisions of this chapter.
MOBILE HOME
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two or more units designed
to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated
for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for
occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations,
and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.
MOBILE HOME LOT
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erections thereon of a single mobile home, which is leased by
the park owner to the occupants of the mobile home erected on the
lot.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so
designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots
for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
MOBILE HOME STAND
That part of an individual lot which has been reserved for
the placement of a mobile home and its appurtenant structures or additions.
PARK
A mobile home park, as herein defined.
PERMIT
A written document issued by the Board of Supervisors permitting
the construction, alteration and extension of a mobile home park under
the provisions of this chapter.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, trust, partnership, public or private
association or corporation.
SEWER CONNECTION
The connection consisting of all pipes, fittings and appurtenances
from the drain outlet of a mobile home or travel trailer to the inlet
of the corresponding sewer riser pipe of the sewerage system serving
the mobile home park or travel trailer camp.
SEWER RISER PIPE
The portion of the sewer lateral which extends vertically
to the ground elevation and terminates at each mobile home lot or
travel trailer space.
TOWNSHIP
Lehigh Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
TRAILER SPACE
A parcel of land in a travel trailer camp for the placement
of a single trailer or travel unit and the exclusive use of its occupants.
TRAILER STAND
That part of an individual trailer space which has been reserved
for the placement of a single trailer or travel unit and its accessory
structures.
TRAVEL TRAILER
A vehicular portable structure built on a chassis designed
as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation, vacation and other
short-term uses and having a body width not exceeding eight feet and
body length not exceeding 32 feet.
TRAVEL TRAILER CAMP
A parcel of land or part thereof occupied or designed for
occupancy by one or more travel trailers or travel units.
TRAVEL TRAILER, DEPENDENT
A trailer or travel unit which is dependent upon a service
building for toilet and lavatory facilities.
TRAVEL TRAILER, INDEPENDENT
A trailer or travel unit which can operate independent of
connections to sewer, water and electric systems. It contains a water-flushed
toilet, lavatory, shower and kitchen sink, all of which are connected
to water storage and sewer holding tanks located within the trailer.
TRAVEL UNIT
A travel mounted camper, motor home, pickup coach, auto,
truck, or bus adapted for vacation living; a folding tent camper;
a tent; and other similar devices used for temporary portable housing.
WATER CONNECTION
The connection of all pipes, fittings and appurtenances from
the water riser pipe to the water inlet pipe of the distribution system
within the mobile home, travel trailer or travel unit.
WATER RISER PIPE
That portion of the water supply system serving the mobile
home park or travel trailer camp which extends vertically to the ground
elevation and terminates at a designated point on each mobile home
lot or travel trailer space.
The storage, collection and disposal of refuse
in the mobile home park or travel trailer camp shall be so conducted
as to create no health hazards, rodent harborage, insect breeding
areas, accident or fire hazards or air pollution and shall comply
with the regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection.
In any mobile home park or travel trailer camp
grounds, buildings, and structures shall be maintained free of insect
and rodent harborage and infestation. Extermination methods and other
measures to control insects and rodents shall conform with the requirements
of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.