[Amended 4-15-2003 by L.L. No. 1-2003]
The Building Official of the Town of Binghamton
shall enforce all of the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 4-15-2003 by L.L. No. 1-2003]
Any person, partnership, association, joint
venture or corporation who violated any provision of this chapter
shall be guilty of an offense against this chapter and subject to
a fine of not more than $250, or to imprisonment for a period of not
more than 15 days, or to both fine and imprisonment. When a violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter is continuous, each week
or portion thereof shall constitute a separate and distinct violation.
None of the provisions of this chapter shall
be applicable to the following:
A. The business of mobile home or travel trailer sales,
except that where units are used as living quarters they shall conform
to the provisions of this chapter.
B. The storage or garaging of mobile homes or travel
trailers not being used for living or sleeping purposes within a building
or structure, nor to the storage of one unoccupied mobile home or
travel trailer on premises occupied as the principal residence by
the owner of such mobile home or travel trailer; provided, however,
that such unoccupied mobile home or travel trailer shall not be parked
or located between the street line and the front building line of
such premises nor within 20 feet of an adjoining property line.
C. A mobile home located on the site of a construction
project, survey project or other similar work project, and which is
used solely as a field office or work or tool house in connection
with such project, provided that such mobile home is removed from
such site within 30 days after the completion of such project.
D. A sectional house which is prefabricated in sections,
transported to the building site, then fastened together and placed
on a permanent and totally enclosed masonry foundation, and which
has minimum width of 18 feet for its entire length and contains a
minimum of 720 square feet of usable living space.
This chapter does not except from its application
any person, partnership, association, joint venture or corporation
which heretofore may have received a license or permit from the Town
of Binghamton in accordance with the ordinance known as "An Ordinance
Regulating the Parking and Location of Automobile Trailers and Regulating
the Licensing, Location, Erection, Maintenance and Conduct of Automobile
Trailer Camps and Tourist Camps," or any earlier or other ordinance
of the Town concerning the same subject matter. This chapter applies
to any such licensee, subject, however, to any different legal rights
of such licensee heretofore established.
[Amended 4-15-2003 by L.L. No. 1-2003]
The Town Board is hereby authorized and shall
appoint a Building Official for the Town of Binghamton. Such Official
shall have the duties imposed by this chapter and such other duties
as may be imposed by the Town Board. The Town Board shall establish
the amount of compensation to be paid by the Town to the Building
Official for the performance of his duties, and thereafter payment
of such compensation for such duties as shall be proper.