[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Southold as indicated in article histories. Other amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning — See Ch. 280.
[Adopted 6-30-1953]
For the purposes of this article, the terms
used herein are defined as follows:
Any vehicle used as sleeping or living quarters which is
or may be mounted on wheels and is or may be propelled either by its
own power or by another power-driven vehicle to which it may be attached.
Any such board or department established pursuant to the
laws of the State of New York and entrusted with the regulation, control
and supervision of matters pertaining to and affecting the public
health in the Town of Southold.
[Amended 9-24-1958]
Any small building, of whatever material constructed, having
not less than 100 nor more than 450 square feet of enclosed floor
area and used as living or sleeping quarters and constructed and equipped
only for seasonal occupancy.
[Amended 11-9-1971]
Any lot, piece or parcel of ground where two or more tents,
tent houses, camp cottages, house cars or trailers used as living
or sleeping quarters are or may be located, said camp being operated
for or not for compensation.
Any section or plot of ground upon which is erected any tent,
tent house or camp cottage and/or for the accommodation of each automobile
trailer or house car.
[Amended 9-24-1958; 2-14-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, association, corporation or copartnership to establish, maintain or operate within the limits of the Town of Southold any tourist camp on any location or plot of ground for use of transients by the day, week, month or season, whether a charge is or is not made, who does not possess a permit from the Department of Health and the Town Board of the Town of Southold. The permit issued by the Town Board shall be subject to approval pursuant to Chapter 236, Stormwater Management, and shall not be transferable or assignable and may be revoked for cause by such Board after a hearing.
[Amended 9-24-1958]
Any person or persons, firm, association, corporation
or copartnership hereafter applying for a permit and/or license to
establish and operate a tourist camp must first file with the Town
Clerk a complete plan of the proposed camp. This plan, with the legal
description of the property shown, shall be drawn to scale and must
clearly show the extent and area to be used for camp purposes. All
proposed roadways and/or driveways, method of sewage disposal, plan
for water supply and lighting, and each proposed location or site
for tents, tent houses, camp cottages and/or trailers or camp cars
must be shown on such plan.
[Amended 4-14-1958]
A.
Each application for a permit shall be accompanied
by a fee of $10 for each unit or $200, whichever is greater.
[Amended 11-9-1971]
B.
Upon receipt of an application for a permit provided
in this chapter, the Town Clerk shall cause a notice of public hearing
thereon, specifying the time and place thereof, to be published once
in a newspaper published in the Town at least 10 days before the day
of the hearing.
All land used as a tourist camp shall be located
on well-drained sites of ample size, free from heavy or dense growth
of brush or weeds. The land shall be free from marsh and shall be
graded to ensure rapid drainage during and following rain.
Each site used as a tourist camp shall be provided
with an ample and adequate supply of water of safe and sanitary quality,
approved by the Board of Health. Where water from sources other than
that of the municipal supply is proposed to be used, the sources of
supply shall first be approved by the Board of Health.
Each tourist camp shall be provided with safe
and adequate provision for the collection and removal of garbage[1] and shall provide a proper and acceptable sewer system
either by connection to a municipal sewer system, where such is available,
or to septic tanks, all of which shall comply fully with all laws,
ordinances and/or requirements prescribed by the Board of Health.
[Amended 11-9-1971]
Each unit in any tourist camp upon which a tent,
tent house, trailer or house car is erected or placed, and each unit
in any tourist camp upon which a camp cottage is hereafter erected
or placed, shall be not less than 50 feet by 100 feet in area, clearly
defined by markers in each corner.
[Amended 11-9-1971]
No cottage hereafter erected or placed upon
a site shall be less than 30 feet distant from any other building
or trailer.
[Amended 11-9-1971]
No trailer, camp car or camp cottage shall be
located on any site where there is less than 30 feet between the trailer
or camp car and other buildings, trailers or camp cars included in
the camp. With the exception of cottages previously placed or erected,
no cottage, trailer or camp car shall be placed within 30 feet from
the property or public highway line nor within 20 feet from any interior
road or driveway.
[Amended 11-9-1971]
A.
Adequate roadways or driveways shall be provided and
shall be so located that each unit of the camp is easily accessible
thereto.
B.
Said roadways or driveways shall be adequately lighted
while such camp is occupied.
D.
All entrances to and exits from the camp shall be
well marked and so arranged as to provide proper control and supervision.
[Amended 9-24-1958]
Each tourist camp shall be under the direct
management of the owner or licensee, or his agent or representative,
for whose acts he or they shall be fully responsible. The names of
the persons entrusted with the direct management of the camp shall
be filed for reference with the Southold Town police.
[Amended 9-24-1958]
Each tourist camp shall keep copies of all records
pertaining to the management or supervision of the camp, which records
shall be available for inspection.
[Amended 11-9-1971]
A.
It shall be the duty of the owner or his agent or
manager to keep a register of all persons accommodated in the camp,
said register to include the names of all persons, their home addresses
and the registration number and description of their automobile or
other vehicle.
B.
It shall be the duty of the owner or his agent or
manager:
(1)
To provide a sewage disposal system and a potable
water supply system for the tourist camp, approved by the Suffolk
County Health Department.
(3)
To prohibit the placing or storage of unsightly materials
or vehicles within the camp.
(4)
To provide at least one five-pound-capacity CO2 fire extinguisher, or the equivalent, approved by Underwriters'
Laboratories, Inc., for each five units in the camp or trailer park,
such fire extinguisher to be so located that each of the units will
be within 250 feet of an extinguisher.
(5)
To report to the Board of Health all cases of communicable
diseases or suspected cases of communicable diseases affecting any
occupant of the camp.
(6)
To report immediately to the public authority all
violations of law committed by any person or persons within the camp.
(7)
To install and maintain a sufficient number of telephones
as may be required by the Town Board.
Each tourist camp shall clearly indicate one
or more entrances and exits, the use of which shall be enforced. Where
it is established by complaint of adjoining property owners that their
property is being trespassed upon by inmates of any tourist camp,
it shall be the duty of the owners, manager or other person responsible
to provide a fence or other effective barrier to ensure to such owners
of adjoining property protection against trespassing.
[Amended 11-9-1971]
On every tourist camp or trailer camp, a suitable
planting of shrubbery will be required to screen the trailer camp
from public land and public highways and other areas as may be required.
The planting shall be of such type and variety and so located as shall
be approved by the Town Board.
The provisions of this article shall be in addition
to and supplementary to the provisions of all other ordinances of
the Town of Southold, and where there is any conflict between the
provisions of this article and any other ordinance, then the ordinance
providing the stricter regulation shall prevail.
[Amended 4-14-1958]
This article shall not apply to any territory
included within the Incorporated Village of Greenport.
[Amended 7-31-1973 by L.L. No. 1-1973; 1-16-2007 by L.L. No. 3-2007]
A.
Any person committing an offense against any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a violation
punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment for a
term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this article
shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate
and additional offense hereunder.
B.
In addition to the above-provided penalties, the Town
Board may also maintain an action or proceeding in the name of the
Town in a court of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with
or to restrain by injunction the violation of this article.
[Adopted 6-20-1978 by L.L. No. 4-1978]
For the purposes of this article, the terms
used herein are defined as follows:
A plot of ground within a recreational vehicle park intended
for the accommodation of a tent for recreational and vacation uses.
A portable vehicular unit designed and built to be used for
temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel uses,
which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by
another power-driven vehicle, including travel trailers, motorized
homes, pickup coaches and camping trailers, registered and licensed
for normal use on the highways of the State of New York.
A parcel of land under single ownership, designed and improved
for the placement of tents and recreational vehicles as temporary
living quarters for recreational or vacation uses.
A plot of ground within a recreational vehicle park intended
for the accommodation of a recreational vehicle.
Each recreational vehicle site and campsite
shall be well-defined and permanently marked and shall meet the following
requirements:
A.
Each site shall have a minimum area of 2,500 square
feet.
B.
Recreational vehicles and tents placed upon a site
shall have minimum front yard and side yard setbacks of 15 feet and
a minimum rear yard setback of 10 feet.
C.
The area of each site within five feet of the street
or roadway shall at all times remain unoccupied and unobstructed.
D.
Each site shall have a minimum of 50 feet frontage
on a street or roadway.
E.
A recreational vehicle or tent placed upon a site
shall not occupy an area in excess of 15% of the total area of the
site.
A.
All two-way roadways and driveways within the park
shall be not less than 24 feet in width, and all one-way roadways
and driveways shall be not less than 15 feet in width and shall be
constructed in accordance with the Southold Town Highway specifications
as to base, surfacing and drainage facilities.
B.
There shall be at least one exterior two-way roadway
or driveway extending around the perimeter of the park.
A.
Recreational vehicle parks shall be in operation on
a seasonal basis only, during the period from April 1 to November
30 in each year.
B.
No recreational vehicle or tent shall be accommodated
in a park for more than 30 days in any calendar year.
C.
No recreational vehicle or tent shall be permitted
to remain in a park during the period from December 1 to March 31
nor during any other period when such park is not in operation.
