[R.O. 2013 §5-60; Ord. No. 7.3 (Bill No. 33) §1, 12-13-1972; Ord. No. 7.3 (Bill No. 166) §1A, 4-18-1975; Ord. No. 14.541 (Bill No. 2761), 12-19-2019[2]; Ord. No. 14.559 (Bill No. 2832), 7-21-2022[3]]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
MOBILE HOME
Any vehicle or structure so constructed as to permit occupancy thereof for human habitation and capable of being used as conveyances for travel, either moving under their own power or towed or transported by another form of vehicular locomotion. The term shall include all portable contrivances used or intended to be used for living or sleeping quarters and which may be placed on a temporary or permanent foundation, on jacks, or on skirting, and is generally known as a mobile home.
MOBILE HOME COURT
A park, court, camp, site, parcel or tract of land designed, intended or maintained for the purpose of supplying a location and accommodations for more than one (1) mobile home, as herein defined, whether a charge is made or not. This term shall not include automobile or trailer sales lots wherein unoccupied mobile homes are parked for the purposes of inspection and sale. This term shall also not include a family type of operation wherein one (1) or more members of the same family, whether related by affinity or consanguinity, live in mobile homes on one (1) or more parcels of land having one (1) or more contiguous boundaries. When construing this definition, consideration should be given to the intent that it is meant to define a commercial mobile home park.
REPLACEMENT TRAILER
A trailer which is replacing a trailer on the same lot or pad within seven (7) days from the date that the original trailer was removed.
[1]
Cross Reference — As to rules of construction and definitions generally, §100.030.
[2]
Editor's Note: Ord. No. 14.541 renumbered former Chapter 520, Mobile Homes, as Chapter 515, Manufactured Homes.
[3]
Editor's Note: Ord. No. 14.559 renumbered former Chapter 515, Manufactured Homes, as Chapter 510.
[R.O. 2013 §5-61; Ord. No. 7.3 (Bill No. 33) §§2, 2A, 8, 12-13-1972; Ord. No. 7.3 (Bill No. 166) §1A, 4-18-1975; Ord. No. 7.3 (Bill No. 263) §1, 11-15-1976; Ord. No. 7.3 (Bill No. 535) §1, 4-2-1980; Ord. No. 14.541 (Bill No. 2761), 12-19-2019; Ord. No. 14.559 (Bill No. 2832), 7-21-2022]
A. 
No building or occupancy permit shall be issued by the City for a mobile home, as herein defined, except as allowed by one (1) or more of the following provisions:
1. 
Mobile homes may be placed on an existing pad or foundation in a mobile home park lawfully existing at the date of adoption of this Section.
2. 
Mobile homes may be located in an MHD mobile home district as shown on the official Zoning Map of the City provided that such district is shown on the official Zoning Map before the date of adoption of this Section.
3. 
Mobile homes may be placed on a separate lot or parcel if said mobile home is for the purpose of replacing a mobile home lawfully existing at the date of adoption of this Section.
B. 
No mobile home shall be moved into the City for purposes other than residential occupancy as permitted in Subsection (A) of this section except as may be allowed by the following provisions:
1. 
May only be brought in as a replacement mobile home for a lawfully existing non-residential use subject to further limitations in this Section and other ordinances of the City relating to replacement of non-conforming mobile homes.
2. 
Modular units may be used by any school of this City for classroom purposes, provided said school is properly accredited by the State of Missouri as an educational institution for children, and provided that said school does not permit any person or persons to use the modular unit as a residence.