This chapter shall be known and cited as the
"Trailer Law of the Town of Clinton."
It is the purpose of this chapter to promote
the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the inhabitants
of the Town of Clinton by the proper regulations of house trailers,
house trailer parks, camping trailers and camping trailer camps.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
CAMPING TRAILER
Any vehicle or combination thereof, not over 30 feet in length
and located in a camping trailer camp between January 1 and November
30, inclusive, used, designed for use, or capable of being used as
sleeping or living quarters, either propelled by its own power or
the power of another vehicle to which it may be attached. Any addition
to such camping trailer shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be
deemed to be a part of such camping trailer.
CAMPING TRAILER CAMP
Any lot, piece or parcel of ground whereon two or more camping
trailers or camping trailer tents are located or parked, otherwise
than for the purpose of loading, unloading or discharge or entrance
of occupants or passengers, and operated only for the period of January
1 to November 30, inclusive, during the calendar year.
CAMP UNIT
The lot or space in any trailer park or camping trailer camp
which shall be assigned to or used and occupied by any one house trailer,
camping trailer, tent or combinations thereof.
HOUSE TRAILER
Includes mobile homes, and shall be defined as any vehicle
or combination thereof, used, designed for use, or capable of being
used as sleeping or living quarters with or without its own motive
power and mounted on wheels or designed to be so mounted, and transported
or transported on a flat-bed trailer. Any addition to such house trailer
shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be deemed to be a part of
such house trailer.
TRAILER PARK
Any lot, piece or parcel of ground whereon two or more house
trailers are located or parked, otherwise than for the purpose of
loading, unloading, discharge or entrance of passengers.
No person, firm or corporation being the owner
or occupant of any land or premises within the Town of Clinton shall
use or permit the use of said land or premises as a trailer park or
camping trailer camp without obtaining a permit therefor as hereinafter
provided.
Any peace officer and the Dutchess County Department
of Health shall have the right, at any reasonable time, to enter any
trailer park or camping trailer 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 trailer park or camping trailer
camp.
If a police officer, health officer or any authorized
representative of the Town of Clinton finds that any trailer park
or camping trailer camp is not being maintained in a clean and sanitary
condition or is not being conducted in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter, 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 park or camp, directing that the conditions therein specified
be remedied within 10 days after the 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
trailer park or camping trailer camp, requiring the holder of the
permit to appear before the Town Board of the Town of Clinton at a
time to be specified in such notice and show cause why such trailer
park or camping trailer 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 park or camp is not being
maintained in a clean and sanitary condition, or if it finds that
any provisions herein have been violated or for other sufficient cause.
Upon revocation, the premises shall forthwith cease to be used for
the purpose of a trailer camp or camping trailer park, and all house
trailers or camping trailers shall forthwith be removed therefrom.
Application for the renewal of any trailer park
or camping trailer camp permit if issued pursuant hereto, must be
filed with the Town Clerk within 10 days preceding the expiration
of the permit. The application for the renewal shall be in writing
and signed by the applicant, and shall contain the same information
as required by § 164-5A herein in the case of the original
application for permit, except that such renewal application need
not be accompanied by a plan of the trailer park or camping trailer
camp, 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, a certified or photostatic copy of the lease shall
be attached to the application for renewal. Upon the approval of said
application for a renewal of the permit by the Dutchess County Health
Department and the Town Planning Board, the Town Clerk shall issue
a renewal permit, which shall become effective as provided herein
for an original permit. The applicant shall, at the time of issuance
of said renewal permit, pay to the Town Clerk the fee provided in
the Fee Schedule Resolution.
The provisions herein shall apply to all existing
trailer parks or camping trailer camps located in the Town of Clinton
on the effective date, and such existing trailer parks or camping
trailer camps shall henceforth be maintained and operated in compliance
with all of the provisions hereof. Any additions, extensions or enlargements
of existing camps shall be made in compliance with all of the provisions
herein.
Any person who violates any provision hereof shall be guilty of a Violation Zoning, punishable as set forth in Chapter
137, Fines and Penalties. The application of the above penalty or penalties or the prosecution for the violation of the provisions hereof shall not be deemed to prevent the revocation of any permit issued pursuant thereto or the enforced removal of conditions prohibited herein.
The issuance of a trailer park or camping trailer
camp permit pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not be
deemed to waive compliance by the holder thereof, by the property
owner, or by any occupant of said camp with any statute of the State
of New York, local law or ordinance of the Town of Clinton, or any
provision of regulations of the Dutchess County Health Department.