[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Holland 4-3-1961. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Animal and vegetable matter originating in houses, kitchens,
restaurants and hotels, produce markets or elsewhere.
A trailer coach park or trailer court.
Any individual, firm, trust, partnership, association, joint-stock
company or corporation.
A vehicle used, or so constructed as to permit its being
used, as a licensed conveyance upon the public streets or highways
and constructed in such a manner as will permit its occupancy as a
dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons.
Any plot of ground upon which two or more trailer coaches,
occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located, regardless
of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation.
A plot of ground within a trailer coach park designed for
the accommodation of one trailer coach.
It shall be unlawful for any persons to maintain
or operate within the limits of the Township any trailer coach park
unless such person shall first obtain a license therefor. All trailer
coach parks in existence upon the effective date of this chapter shall,
within 30 days thereafter, obtain such license.
A.
Applications for a trailer coach park license shall
be filed with the Township Committee of Holland Township and issued
by the Township Clerk. Applications shall be in writing, signed by
the applicant, and shall contain the following:
(1)
The name and address of the applicant.
(2)
A statement as to whether or not the applicant or
any of his or its associates or officers has ever been convicted of
a crime involving moral turpitude.
(3)
The location and description by metes and bounds of
the trailer coach park.
(4)
A complete plan of the park, including a detailed
layout of all proposed sewage and refuse disposal facilities.
(5)
Plans and specifications of all buildings and other
improvements constructed or to be constructed within the trailer coach
park.
B.
The application shall be on a form provided by the
Township Clerk, and all accompanying plans and specifications shall
be filed in triplicate. The Township Clerk shall immediately forward
one copy of the application to the Township Board of Health which
shall inspect the proposed plans to determine whether said plans comply
with the minimum health and sanitation requirements as required by
applicable statutes of New Jersey and ordinances of the Township of
Holland. If the proposed trailer park will be in compliance with the
requirements of such statutes and ordinances, the Chairman or Secretary
of the Board of Health shall note the approval of the Board on the
back of the application and return it to the Township Clerk within
20 days of receiving the application. If the requirements of such
standards are not met, the Chairman of the Board of Health shall advise
the Township Clerk, in writing, of the disapproval of the plans by
the Board of Health, and the reasons therefor, within said twenty-day
period. The Township Committee shall verify the information contained
in the application within 20 days and inspect the proposed plans and
specifications. If the information contained therein is true and the
proposed trailer coach park will be in compliance with all provisions
of this chapter and all other applicable statutes of New Jersey and
ordinances of Holland Township, and the Township Board of Health has
approved the plans as being in conformity with applicable health and
sanitation laws, the Township Committee shall approve said application
on the reverse side thereof, and the Township Clerk shall issue the
license.
C.
No license shall be transferred without the permission
of the Township Committee.
A.
A license fee shall be imposed under this chapter for the purpose of raising revenue for the Township. The license fee for a trailer coach park or trailer court shall be as established in Chapter 83, Fees, payable on or before the 15th day of May of each year to the Township Tax Collector, and the sum, as established in Chapter 83, Fees, per calendar week or fraction thereof per trailer, payable by the operator of the park or court to the Township Tax Collector on the last day of each and every month.[1]
C.
D.
The registry shall contain the following information
with respect to the operation of the park or court for the previous
month:
The trailer coach park shall conform to the
following requirements:
A.
The trailer coach park or trailer court shall be located
on a well-drained site and not adjacent to a swamp or marsh.
B.
All trailer coach spaces shall abut upon a driveway
of not less than 25 feet in width, which shall have unobstructed access
to a public street or highway. All driveways shall be hard surfaced
and well marked in the daytime and lighted at night with one-hundred-watt
lamps, at intervals of 100 feet, located approximately 15 feet from
the ground.
C.
Walkways not less than two feet wide shall be provided
from the trailer coach spaces to the service buildings. The walkways
shall be hard surfaced and well marked in the daytime and lighted
at night with one-hundred-watt lamps at intervals of 100 feet, located
approximately 15 feet from the ground.
D.
An electrical outlet supplying at least 110 volts
shall be provided for each trailer coach space.
Each trailer court shall be furnished with an
adequate supply of potable water of a standard of quality and quantity
established by the Township for the Township as a whole.
Laundry facilities shall be provided in the
ratio of one double laundry tub and/or one single laundry tub and
one automatic or semiautomatic-type washing machine for every six
trailer coach spaces. An electrical outlet shall be provided supplying
110 volts of electricity to operate each washing machine. Drying spaces
shall be provided sufficient to accommodate the laundry of the trailer
coach occupants. The service building housing the laundry facilities
shall be a permanent structure complying with all applicable ordinances
and statutes regulating buildings, electrical installations and plumbing
and sanitation systems.
A.
No wastewater or matter from sinks, baths, cesspools,
septic tanks or other plumbing fixtures shall be deposited or permitted
to accumulate on the surface of the ground.
B.
Waste from showers, bathtubs, flush toilets, urinals,
lavatories and laundries within the park shall be discharged into
a public or private sewer and disposal plant or septic tank system
of such construction and in such manner as will present no health
hazard. Each trailer coach space shall be provided with a trapped
sewer at least four inches in diameter, which shall be connected to
receive the waste from the shower, bathtub, flush toilet, lavatory
and kitchen sink of the trailer coach, harbored in such space and
having any or all of such facilities. The trapped sewer in each space
shall be connected to discharge the trailer coach waste into a private
sewer and disposal plant or septic tank system of such construction
and in accordance with the standards established by the Township for
the Township as a whole and by the State of New Jersey.
Tightly covered metal garbage cans shall be
provided in quantities adequate to permit disposal of all garbage
and rubbish. Garbage cans shall be located not farther than 100 feet
from any trailer coach space. The cans shall be kept in sanitary condition
at all times. Garbage and rubbish shall be collected and disposed
of at least twice a week to ensure that the garbage cans shall not
overflow.
Every park shall be equipped at all times with
at least one fire extinguisher in good working order for every six
trailer coach spaces. No open fires shall be permitted at any time.
No fires shall be left unattended at any time.
No owner or person in charge of any dog, cat
or other pet shall permit it to run at large within the limits of
any trailer coach park or trailer court.
A responsible attendant or caretaker, owner
or operator shall be in charge at all times to keep the trailer coach
park or trailer court, its facilities and equipment in a clean, orderly
and sanitary condition, and he shall be answerable, with the licensee,
for any violation of the provisions of this chapter.
The Township Committee may revoke any license
to maintain and operate a park when the licensee has been found guilty
of violating any provisions of this chapter. After conviction of a
violation, the license may be reissued if correctional steps have
been taken to remedy the situation which led to the revocation and
if the park is being maintained and operated in full compliance with
the law.
No person shall permit such licensed premises
to be used for the violation of any laws of the United States, the
State of New Jersey or of Holland Township.
Said business and the place and premises conducted
shall be subject to examination by day or night by the Township Committee
through an inspector authorized by it to make such inspection.
The license certificate shall be conspicuously
posted in the office of or on the premises of the trailer coach park
or trailer court at all times.
[Amended 9-5-1989 by Ord.
No. 1989-9]
A.
The governing body may prescribe penalties for the
violation of ordinances it may have authority to pass, either by imprisonment
in the county jail or in any place provided by the municipality for
the detention of prisoners, for any term not exceeding 90 days or
by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or both. The court before which any
person is convicted of violating this chapter shall have power to
impose any fine or term of imprisonment not exceeding the maximum
fixed in this chapter.
B.
Any person convicted of the violation of this chapter
may, in the discretion of the court by which he was convicted, and
in default of the payment of any fine imposed therefor, be imprisoned
in the county jail or place of detention provided by the municipality
for any term not exceeding 90 days.
