[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Riverdale 3-17-1949
by Ord. No. 46. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 160.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any vehicle used or intended for the use as a conveyance, upon the
public streets or highways and duly licensed as such; including self-propelled
and non-self-propelled vehicles so designed, constructed and reconstructed
or added to by means of accessories in such a manner as to permit the occupancy
thereof as a temporary dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons
and having a foundation or on wheels, jacks or skirtings so arranged as to
be integral with or portable by said trailer or camp car.
A.Â
It shall be unlawful, within the limits of the Borough
of Riverdale for any person to park any trailer or camp car on any street,
road, avenue or highway, or other public place or tract of land owned by any
person, occupied or unoccupied, except as provided in this chapter.
B.Â
Emergency or temporary stopping or parking is permitted
on any street, road, avenue or highway for not longer than two hours. No trailer
or camp car while so parked within the limits of the Borough of Riverdale
shall be used by any person as a dwelling house, place of abode or sleeping
place.
C.Â
It shall be unlawful, within the limits of the Borough
of Riverdale, for any person to park or occupy any trailer on the premises
of any occupied dwelling or on any lot which is not a part of the premises
of any occupied dwelling, except the parking of only one unoccupied trailer
in an accessory private garage building, or in any rear yard, is permitted,
provided that no living quarters shall be maintained or any business practiced
in said trailer while such trailer is so parked or stored.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation
to conduct or operate any trailer park or trailer camp within the limits of
the Borough of Riverdale.
Trailer parks and trailer camps are hereby prohibited within the limits
of the Borough of Riverdale.
[Amended 9-21-1992 by Ord. No. 4-92]
Any person who shall violate this chapter or any of its provisions shall,
upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge
imposing the same. Every day such violation exists shall constitute a separate
offense and be punishable as such hereunder.
Persons who enter the Borough of Riverdale in trailers or camp cars
for the purpose of visiting friends or members of their family who are residents
of the Borough, shall be excepted from the provisions of this chapter, provided
that:
A.Â
No such exception shall be permitted for a period exceeding
30 days.
B.Â
Upon entering the Borough for the purpose aforesaid,
such persons shall secure a permit from the Chief of Police, which permit
shall specify the date and time of expiration thereof. No permit shall be
issued unless it appears that the standards of sanitation and health maintained
by the Borough will not be impaired thereby.
No provision of this chapter shall be construed to prevent any person
from engaging in the lawful business of selling trailers or camp cars and
such person may park same on their property for purposes of display only.
