[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Pennsauken
3-13-1978 by Ord. No. 78-3 as Ch. 172 of the 1977 Code; amended in its entirety
12-30-2002 by Ord. No. 02-32. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
PERSON
TRAILER, MOBILE HOME or RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
TRAILER PARK AND CAMPGROUNDS
Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes a person of either sex, any natural person or association
of natural persons, association, partnership or corporation.
Any vehicle, self-propelled or non-self-propelled, intended to be
used as a conveyance upon the public streets, highways or thoroughfares, duly
licensed as such, and which is designed, constructed, reconstructed or added
to by means of portable accessories in such a manner as to permit the occupancy
thereof as a dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons and having
no foundation, other than wheels, jacks or skirtings, so arranged as to be
integral with or portable by said trailer, mobile home or recreational vehicle.
Any site, lot, field or tract of lands and premises upon which one
or more trailers are parked or located for use as such, whether or not a charge
is made for such parking or locating, including any building, structure, tent,
vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the equipment of
such trailer park and campgrounds.
B.
Word usage. The word "trailer," as used in this chapter,
shall be construed to include the words "mobile home" and "recreational vehicle."
The words "trailer park and campgrounds," as used in this chapter shall be
construed to include the words "car park and campground."
No person shall park any trailer on any street, highway or thoroughfare
in the Township of Pennsauken except for the purpose of repair or other necessary
purpose, and then for not more than three hours. Any trailer requiring repairs
which shall take longer than three hours shall be placed upon the premises
of a person conducting the business of repairing trailers, and said trailer
shall not, during the period of such repairs or storage, be used by any person
as a dwelling or sleeping place.
Except as provided in § 204-2 hereof, no person shall park or locate for use any trailer, as herein defined, within the limits of the Township of Pennsauken except at a duly licensed trailer park and campgrounds, as herein provided.
No trailer park and campgrounds shall be established in the Township
of Pennsauken except within the limits of the following described lands and
premises: all that certain lot, tract or parcel of lands and premises situate
in said Township of Pennsauken, County of Camden and State of New Jersey,
bounded and described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe set in the southwesterly
line of the New Jersey State Highway, Route 40 (formerly Marlton Pike), corner
to land now or late of the Bridge Circle Estates, formerly Robert S. Johnson;
thence southeastwardly along the southwesterly line of the New Jersey State
Highway, Route 40, a distance of 400 feet to a point; thence southwestwardly,
making an interior angle of 99º 21' 22" with the last mentioned course,
429.17 feet to a point; thence northwestwardly, making an interior angle of
110º 10' 40" with the last mentioned course and at right angles to the
line of land of aforesaid Bridge Circle Estates, 200 feet to a point in said
line; thence northeastwardly along the line of land of said Bridge Circle
Estates, passing over monuments set at the distances of 171.35 feet, 381.42
feet and 591.49 feet southwestwardly, measured along said line from its intersection
with the southwesterly line of New Jersey State Highway, Route 40, a distance
of 600 feet to a point and the place of beginning; being part of premises
designated on the Tax Assessment Map of the Township of Pennsauken as Plate
44, Block S-341, Lot 2.
No person shall conduct or operate a trailer park and campgrounds, as
defined herein, without having first obtained a license therefor from the
Township Clerk.
The license fees under this chapter shall be as follows:
A.
For each house trailer located or parked at such trailer
park and campgrounds, the sum of $100 per year, payable in semiannual installments
of $50 in the first days of January and July in each year, provided that there
shall be paid a license fee for not less than 65 trailers. If any licensee
shall fail to pay such license fee due hereunder for a period of 10 days after
the same shall become due and payable, such license shall become null and
void.
B.
In the event such licensee shall at any time have more
than 65 trailers in such park and campground, then such licensee shall forthwith
pay an additional license fee of $50 for such trailer, plus $10 per month
per trailer for any period in excess of six months for any such trailers in
excess of 65 trailers parked or located in such premises.
This chapter is passed to regulate and control trailers, mobile homes,
recreational vehicles, trailer park and campgrounds and car park and campgrounds
in said Township.
Applications for trailer park and campgrounds licenses shall be made
in writing to the Township Clerk and shall contain the following information:
A.
The name and address of the applicant.
B.
The name and address of the owner of the premises on
which the proposed trailer park and campgrounds is to be situate.
C.
A description setting forth the exact location of the
proposed trailer park and campgrounds, accompanied by a map showing said location
and the entire plan of the park and campground.
D.
A resume of the sewer, water and toilet facilities provided
or to be provided.
E.
The maximum number of trailers to be accommodated.
F.
A statement by the applicant that he or she will comply
with all the provisions of this chapter and an agreement that he or she will
permit the entry into the trailer park and campgrounds at any time of an authorized
inspector, health officer, police officer or fire marshal.
A.
Lot area and arrangement. Each trailer park and campgrounds
shall provide not less than 875 square feet (25 feet by 35 feet) for each
trailer, and the park and campground shall be subdivided into rectangular-shaped
lots. Lots shall be grouped into blocks with streets at least 20 feet wide
between each block.
B.
Setbacks. No trailer shall be located within 30 feet
of any street line or within 20 feet of any adjoining property line.
C.
Utilities, Each trailer park and campgrounds shall be
equipped with water service, shall be well-drained and shall be located where
public sewer service is available or where septic tanks or cesspools are provided.
D.
Water supply. At each trailer park and campgrounds a
sufficient supply of pure drinking water shall be placed in conveniently located
buildings, and no common drinking vessels or drinking water faucets shall
be permitted in any toilet room or water closet compartment.
E.
Water closets. Each trailer park and campgrounds shall
provide service buildings in which shall be installed water closets placed
in a separate compartment, properly separated from any other water closet,
each compartment to be not less than three feet wide and enclosed with proper
partitions. The ratio of water closets shall be one for every 15 females or
less and one for every 25 males or less. In addition, there shall be one urinal
for every 25 males or less. Such accommodations shall be based on the total
park and campground capacity according to the plans filed with the Township
Clerk and shall be computed on the basis of a minimum of three persons to
each trailer, with the sexes being considered as equal in number.
F.
Sinks. Each trailer park and campgrounds shall provide
in every toilet room, or within 10 feet of the entrance thereof, facilities
for washing hands in the ratio of one lavatory or sink for every two or less
water closets, with separate facilities for each sex.
G.
Disposal of wastewater. All wastewater from trailer sinks
shall be wasted to a public sewer, if such sewer is available, and, if not,
then into cesspools or septic tanks or into pails. If said wastewater shall
be emptied into pails, said pails shall then be emptied into said public sewer,
septic tank or cesspool. The spilling or draining of water on the campground
is prohibited.
H.
Garbage and rubbish receptacles. Each trailer park and
campgrounds shall provide a sufficient number of garbage receptacles and rubbish
receptacles so placed as to be convenient for the use of the occupants of
the trailers.
A.
Each trailer park and campgrounds shall have a park and
campground manager whose name shall be registered with the Township Clerk.
The park and campground manager shall keep and maintain or cause to be kept
and maintained a register in which shall be inscribed the true name and address
of each and every person renting or occupying park and campground space for
a trailer in said park and campground, together with the names and addresses
of each occupant of said trailer and of the owner thereof, and such register
shall be signed by said person renting or occupying park and campground space
and by each occupant of said trailer.
B.
The park and campground manager shall write opposite
each name the park and campground space assigned to and occupied by each trailer.
The park and campground manager shall also keep a record of the license numbers
of all trailers and other units occupying space at said trailer park and campgrounds,
the name of the state issuing such licenses and the exact address at which
said trailer was last located, together with the date when the occupant or
occupants of the park and campground space quit and surrendered the same.
C.
A copy of such registry shall be posted in or on the
trailer for which it is issued, and the manager's copy shall be available
at all times for inspection by the duly authorized Township officials. The
manager's copies shall be neatly and securely maintained, and no record shall
be destroyed until the expiration of 12 months following the date of registration.
The park and campground manager shall give to the operator of each trailer
a copy of the park and campground rules, if any, and a copy of this chapter.
The trailer park and campgrounds license and an approved copy of the park
and campground plan shall be posted in the office of the park and campground
manager in a conspicuous place.
The manager of each trailer park and campgrounds, if requested by the Township Clerk, shall file with the Township Clerk copies of the records set forth in § 204-11 of this chapter.
A.
Each trailer park and campgrounds shall be well-lighted
at night, except during wartime blackouts.
B.
No animal washing, car washing or other slop creating
practices shall be permitted in any trailer park and campgrounds except in
a place specifically designated for that purpose, which place shall be in
such location as not to disturb or otherwise annoy the occupants of trailers
parked in said trailer park and campgrounds.
C.
No dumb animals shall be permitted to run at large in
any trailer park and campgrounds.
D.
No person shall remove the wheels of any trailer or otherwise
fix said vehicle to the ground.
Every occupant or operator of a trailer shall report to the park and
campground manager and to the Board of Health of the Township of Pennsauken
any communicable disease occurring in his or her trailer, and the park and
campground manager shall also immediately communicate such information to
said Board of Health.
This chapter is deemed necessary and proper for the good government,
order and protection of persons and property in the Township of Pennsauken
and for the preservation of the public health, safety and welfare of said
Township of Pennsauken and its inhabitants.
The Township Committee, after written charges and notice and hearing
thereon, may revoke or suspend any license issued hereunder for the violation
of any of the terms of this chapter. Ten days' written notice of such charges
and hearing shall be served personally upon the licensee or shall be mailed
to the licensee by registered mail addressed to the licensee's last known
address.
[Amended 9-12-1984 by Ord.
No. 84-26]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon
conviction, be subject to one or more of the following: a fine not exceeding
$1,250 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, in the discretion
of the Municipal Court Judge.
