[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of East
Hampton 1-17-1975 by LL. No. 1-1975 (Ch.
52 of the 1971 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Board of Trustees of the Village of East Hampton finds that the
improper use of trailers and campers for living purposes in the Village of
East Hampton is detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of its residents,
causes unsanitary conditions and creates a nuisance.
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined as
follows:
Not only a self-contained and self-propelled vehicle used or intended
to be used as a conveyance upon the public streets and designed in such a
manner as to permit the occupancy thereof by one or more persons as a place
for sleeping, eating and general living, irrespective of whether or not the
said vehicle is used actually for said purposes, but also any structural body
not having wheels but which may be slid onto the body of a truck, attached
thereto and transported as an integral part of said truck and designed in
such a manner as to permit the occupancy thereof by one or more persons as
a place for sleeping, eating and general living, irrespective of whether or
not the said vehicle is used actually for said purposes.
An individual, a partnership, an association or a corporation.
Any vehicle used or intended to be used as a conveyance upon the
public streets and designed in such a manner as to permit the occupancy thereof
by one or more persons as a place for sleeping, eating and general living,
irrespective of whether or not the said vehicle is used actually for said
purposes. This definition is intended to include not only those vehicles having
two or more wheels and hitched, hooked or attached in some other manner to
a self-propelled vehicle such as an automobile or truck, but also those vehicles
from which the wheels have been removed and which are either permanently or
semipermanently attached to the ground and hooked into one or more public
utilities such as gas, electricity, water and sewer. In addition, a "trailer"
is also intended to include a vehicle designed in such a manner as to be hooked,
hitched or attached in some other manner to a self-propelled vehicle such
as an automobile or truck and used or intended to be used for the transportation
or storage of goods, materials and other tangible personal property, only,
and not designed for sleeping, eating and general living.
A.
Trailers used or intended to be used in business and
commerce for the transportation or storage of goods, materials and other tangible
personal property, and trailers used or intended to be used as a temporary
office during the period of construction are not included in the above definition
of trailer.
B.
Further, trailers used or intended to be used temporarily
for educational or convention use also are not included in the above definition
of trailers.
C.
The definition of camper is not intended to include a
commercial truck, panel truck or other such vehicle.
The use of a trailer or camper for living purposes is prohibited within the jurisdictional limits of the Village of East Hampton, except as hereinafter provided under § 261-5A.
A.
The parking, for purposes of habitation, of a trailer
or camper overnight upon any street or property within the jurisdictional
limits of the Village of East Hampton is prohibited, except by permit, for
a period not to exceed one week, which permit shall be issued by the Building
Inspector of the Village of East Hampton at his discretion. The aforesaid
permit may be issued to those property owners upon whose property overnight
parking of a trailer or camper is sought to be permitted, or whose property
abuts on that portion of the street upon which overnight parking of a trailer
or camper is sought to be permitted. The Building Inspector of the Village
of East Hampton shall consider, among other factors, the size of the trailer
or camper, the reason for the request, the trafficability of the street upon
which a permit for overnight parking is sought, the surrounding residences
and the proposed duration of the requested permit.
B.
An unoccupied trailer or camper may be parked or stored
without permit upon any private property within the jurisdictional limits
of the Village of East Hampton; however, in no case shall the trailer or camper
be made immobile by removal of wheels, nor shall the trailer or camper be
permanently affixed to the private property.
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this chapter,
upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine in an amount not exceeding
the sum of $250. Further, each day that a violation is permitted to exist
shall be considered a separate offense.
