No person, firm or corporation being the owner or occupant of any land
or premises within the Town of Schodack shall use or permit the use of said
land or premises as a mobile home camp without obtaining a permit therefor
as hereinafter provided.
Any peace officer and the inspector of the town shall have the right,
at any reasonable time, to enter any mobile home camp and shall have the right,
at all times, to inspect all parts of said premises and to inspect the records
required to be kept in any mobile home camp.
If a police officer, the inspector or any authorized representative of the Town of Schodack finds that any mobile home camp is not being maintained in a clean and sanitary condition or is not being conducted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or that the fees provided for in §
147-5 of this chapter have not been paid or that the registration provisions of §
147-7 of this chapter are not being carried out, such facts shall thereupon be reported to the Town Board and said Town Board may direct the Town Clerk to serve an order in writing upon the holder of the permit or the person in charge of said camp, directing that the conditions therein specified be remedied within 10 days after date of service of such order. If such conditions are not corrected after the expiration of said ten-day period, the Town Board may cause a notice in writing to be served upon the holder of said permit or the person in charge of such mobile home camp requiring the holder of the permit to appear before the Town Board of the Town of Schodack at a time to be specified in such notice and show cause why such mobile home camp permit should not be revoked. The Town Board may, after a hearing at which testimony of witnesses may be taken and the holder of the permit shall be heard, revoke such permit if said Town Board shall find that said camp is not being maintained in a clean and sanitary condition or if it finds that any provisions of this chapter have been violated or that the fees provided for in §
147-5 of this chapter have not been paid or for other sufficient cause. Upon the revocation of such permit, the premises shall immediately cease to be used for the purpose of a mobile home camp, and all mobile homes shall forthwith be removed therefrom.
Application for the renewal of any mobile home camp permit issued pursuant to this chapter, must be filed with the Town Clerk on or before the first day of December next preceding the expiration of said permit. The application for renewal shall be in writing and signed by the applicant and shall contain the same information as required by §
147-5A of this chapter in the case of original application for permits, except that such renewal application need not be accompanied by a plan of the mobile home camp unless some change in the plan or layout of the camp is contemplated by the applicant, nor is it necessary that said renewal application be accompanied by the lease of the premises unless a new lease of the premises has been entered into subsequent to the time of filing the previous application, in which event the original or photostatic copy of the new lease shall be attached to the application for a renewal, nor shall it be necessary to attach to such application for renewal the written consent of the owners of the premises that the same may be used for the purposes of a mobile home camp unless there shall have been a change in the ownership since the filing of the previous application, in which event such written statement signed by all of the new owners of the premises must accompany the application for a renewal of the permit. Upon the approval of said application for a renewal of the permit by the inspector and the Town Board, the Town Clerk shall issue a renewal permit which shall become effective upon the expiration of the prior permit and continue in force for the term specified therein but in no event longer than for a period of one year. No renewal permit shall be issued to an owner or operator who is at the time of application for a renewal permit in default of payment of any fees provided for in this chapter. Such renewal permit shall not be transferred or assigned. The applicant shall, at the time of issuance of such renewal permit, pay to the Town Clerk the same fee provided in §
147-5D covering the original issuance of mobile home camp permits.
[Amended 7-11-1974 by L.L. No. 4-1974]
This chapter shall apply to all existing mobile home camps in the Town of Schodack on the date of its adoption, except that mobile home camps in existence on or before said date shall not be required to comply with the provisions of §
147-6C hereof. The owner or operator of any existing camp shall have 60 days after this chapter becomes effective to make an application for a permit to operate such camp; provided, however, that where a permit to operate a mobile home camp has been granted to any owner or operator of a mobile home camp pursuant to any previous Mobile Home Ordinance or Trailer Ordinance, then the application shall be in the form of a renewal application as provided for in §
147-10. Such application shall contain the information required by §
147-5A and shall be accompanied by the fee set forth in §
147-5D. Upon payment thereof, the Town Clerk shall therewith issue a permit to operate such camp until the following December 31. Any additions, extensions or enlargements of existing camps shall comply with all the provisions of this chapter. Applications for permits to construct such additions, extensions or enlargements shall be made as provided in §
147-5. A camp operating under such permit shall be maintained and operated in compliance with all the provisions of this chapter except as they have been heretofore excused.