[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of South Bristol 12-17-1963. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning — See Ch. 170.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any geographical location within the limits of the Town of
South Bristol used, or capable of being used, for the purpose of maintaining,
occupying or using a trailer or travel trailer for a period of time
in excess of forty-eight (48) hours.
An instrument in writing issued and signed by the Town Clerk
under the provisions of this chapter.
An individual, individuals, partnership, firm, association
or corporation.
Any vehicle used, designed for use or capable of being used
as sleeping or living quarters, whether propelled by its own power
or by the power of another vehicle to which it may be attached.
A parcel of land upon which two (2) or more trailers or travel
trailers shall at any one (1) time be located.
Any such vehicle twenty-two (22) feet or less in length,
and shall include vehicles equipped with self-contained fabric covers,
and which said vehicles may be expanded into living or sleeping quarters,
and shall also include any such vehicle with sleeping quarters mounted
on a truck or automobile chassis.
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person
to park, cause to be parked, use, occupy or maintain for use or occupancy
in a parking place situate on any lot or tract of land located in
the Town of South Bristol or to maintain or operate a trailer park
within said town without first having obtained a permit therefor as
hereinabove set forth.
A.
A permit hereunder may be granted by the Town Board
upon written application duly made to the Town Clerk. All such applications
shall be in writing, signed by the applicant, and shall be in the
form prescribed by the Town Clerk.
B.
Each such application shall be accompanied by a fee
therefor in an amount as set forth from time to time by resolution
of the Town Board. Current fees are on file in the office of the Town
Clerk. No such fees shall be refunded in the event a permit is granted
hereunder.[1]
C.
Any such permit shall either be granted or denied
by the Town Board no later than its regular monthly meeting next succeeding
the date on which application therefor shall have been filed with
the Town Clerk.
D.
No permit issued hereunder shall be assignable or
transferable.
E.
Each such permit shall be valid only for the parking
place and for the trailer or travel trailer described in the application
upon which such permit shall have been issued. No removal to a parking
place other than that described or the location thereon of a trailer
or travel trailer other than that described in the application shall
be authorized except by written permission of the Town Board. Request
for any such removal or trailer replacement or substitution as hereinabove
described shall be filed with the Town Clerk in the same manner and
upon payment of the same fee as is hereinabove set forth.
A.
No permit shall be granted for a trailer or travel
trailer unless the same shall contain suitable toilet facilities built
therein.
B.
No permit shall be granted for a trailer or a travel
trailer which is used, occupied or intended to be used or occupied
by more than six (6) persons as a temporary or permanent place of
abode.
C.
Any permit issued hereunder may be revoked by the
Town Board if the trailer for which the permit shall have been issued
is not connected with a sanitary water supply within ten (10) days
after the issuance of such permit and the location of such trailer
in its parking place or if within thirty (30) days after the issuance
of such permit or the location of such trailer in its parking place
said trailer shall not have been connected to a properly installed
septic system approved by the Town Health Officer or an authorized
agent of the New York State Department of Health.
D.
No garbage, refuse, trash or other waste material
shall be allowed to accumulate on the premises on which any trailer
for which a permit has been granted is located.
E.
No permit hereunder shall be granted for premises
containing less than two thousand four hundred (2,400) square feet
of area.
F.
No permit shall be granted hereunder for a trailer
whose leach bed forming a part of its septic system is located less
than one hundred (100) feet from the shoreline of Canandaigua Lake,
or a tributary stream thereof, unless the same shall have been approved
by an authorized agent of the New York State Department of Health.
G.
In the event that no trailer shall have been located
on premises for which a permit shall have been issued hereunder or
if no trailer park facilities shall have been constructed pursuant
to a permit issued hereunder within six (6) months of the issuance
date of such permit, said permit shall thereupon be void.
A.
All lands used as a trailer park shall be properly
drained so as to be free from stagnant pools of water and shall be
free from heavy or dense growth of brush or weeds.
B.
Each such park shall be subdivided into trailer lots
or units, each of which shall contain at least one thousand one hundred
twenty-five (1,125) square feet of area. No more than one (1) trailer
shall be permitted on any such unit. Each such park shall be kept
in a clean sanitary condition at all times, and no trailers located
thereon shall be within fifteen (15) feet of another similar trailer.
C.
Each such trailer park shall be provided with proper
water connections for each unit thereof.
D.
A sufficient supply of pure drinking water shall be
provided for each such unit.
E.
No trailer shall be located on any such unit unless
the same shall have its own toilet, lavatory and bath facilities built
therein or unless satisfactory toilet, lavatory and bath facilities
are provided by the owner or operator of such trailer park and shall
have been approved by the Town Health Officer.
[Amended 10-10-1994 by L.L. No. 1-1994; 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
A.
The penalty, in addition to any others herein specifically
provided for, for each and every violation of any of the provisions
hereof shall be and is hereby fixed at the sum of $250 and the cost
of the proceedings, and each day such violation exists shall constitute
a separate and distinct violation of this chapter.
B.
In addition any of the foregoing penalties, the Town
Board may revoke any permit granted hereunder in the manner hereinabove
provided.
This chapter shall not apply to any trailer
or trailer park located within the Town of South Bristol upon the
effective date of this chapter; however, any trailer occupying any
parking place in the Town of South Bristol, whether or not located
within a trailer park, may be required to comply with the provisions
of this chapter when circumstances surrounding the occupancy of any
such trailer or maintenance of any such trailer park shall be declared
in writing by the Town Board of Health to constitute a nuisance dangerous
to or injurious of the public health, except that no permit or fee
therefor shall be required.[1]
