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.
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.
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.