This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "West Goshen Township
Mobile Home Park Ordinance."
A.
COMMON OPEN SPACE
LANDOWNER
MOBILE HOME
MOBILE HOME LOT OR SITE
MOBILE HOME PAD
MOBILE HOME PARK
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words
and phrases shall be construed throughout this chapter to have the meanings
herein indicated:
A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water or a combination
of land and water within a mobile home park site designed and intended for
the use or enjoyment of residents of the mobile home park, not including streets,
off-street parking areas, areas set aside for public facilities and required
setbacks and buffers.
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including the holder
of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such option or contract
is subject to any condition) and/or a lessee if he is authorized under the
lease to exercise the rights of the landowner or other person having a proprietary
interest in the land.
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy
contained in one unit or in two or more units designed to be joined into one
integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which
arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental
unpacking and assembly operations and constructed so that it may be used without
a permanent foundation, including any addition or accessory structure, such
as porches, sheds, decks or additional rooms.
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the necessary
utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon
of a single mobile home, which is leased by the park owner to the owner or
occupants of the mobile home erected on the lot.
A concrete pad at least six inches in thickness with at least six
tie-down rings to which the mobile home shall be secured and equal in length
and width to the dimensions of the mobile home to be placed thereon or twelve-inch
diameter by thirty-inch deep piers placed greater than 10 feet on center under
each side of the lengthwise frame.
A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned and
improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use, consisting
of two or more mobile home lots.
B.
The singular shall include the plural and the plural
shall include the singular. The past tense shall include the future tense.
The word "shall" is always mandatory.
