[Adopted 4-18-1958]
[Amended 11-2-1963]
No person, persons, partnership, firm, corporation or association shall park, store, place, locate or permit to be parked, stored, placed or located any trailer or mobile home for a period of more than one week on any lot, tract or parcel of land, except in a licensed trailer park or except on a construction site as a temporary construction office or shelter.[1] No person, persons, partnership, firm, corporation or association shall conduct or carry on the business of the operation of a trailer park or work in, occupy or, directly or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever, utilize any place or premises in which is conducted or carried on a trailer park unless and until there shall be granted by the Township Committee of the Township of Liberty, in accordance with the terms of this Article, and shall be in full force and effect a license to conduct said trailer park for the place and premises at which the same shall be carried on. Nothing herein shall prevent the continued use of an individual trailer in use on or before the effective date of this Article and not located in a licensed trailer park.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Art. II, Individual Trailers, of this chapter.
[Amended 6-1-1992 by Ord. No. 16-92]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
TRAILER
See the definition of "mobile home" in § 94-23.
TRAILER PARK
See the definition of "mobile home park" in § 94-23.
Said license shall be applied for by written application filed with the Township Clerk. Such application shall set forth the full name and address of the applicant, the particular kind or character of business to be carried on or conducted, vehicles parked, the location or place of the premises in or at which the same is to be carried on; the total area of the ground space thereof and a diagram of the same. Said application shall also be accompanied by a deposit to cover the license fee for the current year, in the amount hereinafter provided, which license fee, after the beginning of the year, as to any said place, shall be proportionately prorated for the remainder of the year.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any trailer or camp car for any period exceeding two hours on any street or road in the Township of Liberty.
A. 
A license for a mobile home park shall be $200 per annum, plus the sum of $65 per unit per year. Said license shall expire on December 31 of each year, and said fee is hereby expressly declared to be imposed for revenue. The sum of $200 shall be payable in advance for each year. The per-unit fee of $65 shall be payable on December 31 for each unit which has occupied the mobile home park for all or a portion of the calendar year.
[Amended 6-1-1992 by Ord. No. 16-92]
B. 
Each licensee shall maintain a camp registry and, each month, submit two copies of the same so far as it pertains to the previous month, setting forth the license number of each trailer, serial number, body type and license number of each automobile, date of arrival, whether still at camp and, if out, the date of departure and the age, name and last permanent address of the owner of each car and trailer and of each occupant thereof. A copy shall be delivered to the Township Clerk and a copy to the Tax Collector, together with payment to the Tax Collector of any and all fees due the township as provided herein.
C. 
No license shall be transferable without permission and approval of the Township Committee.
The licensee shall provide an adequate supply of pure drinking water. Said water supply shall be obtained from faucets only, conveniently located in said park ground; and no dripping vessel or common cups shall be permitted.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 94-7, Sanitation facilities, was repealed 6-1-1992 by Ord. No. 16-92.
There shall be no dumping of waste material on the ground. The same must go into garbage and ash cans provided by the licensee and which shall be properly disposed of by said licensee. Such receptacles shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition at all times.
It shall be unlawful to permit any wastewater or matter from sinks, baths, cesspools, septic tanks or other plumbing fixtures or means of disposal in camp cars and/or trailers to be deposited upon the surface of the ground, and all such fixtures and devices, when in use, must be connected to the park disposal system or the drainage therefrom must be disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health.
The licensee shall provide adequate illumination in the park grounds and toilets. Such lights shall be illuminated from 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
A. 
Every park ground hereafter established shall provide for a minimum of 2,400 square feet of space per trailer or camp car.
[Amended 6-1-1992 by Ord. No. 16-92]
B. 
Camp cars and/or trailers shall be arranged abutting or facing on a driveway or clear unoccupied space not less than 20 feet in width, which space shall have unobstructed access to a public street or alley.
Every park ground hereafter established shall be located on a well-drained area, and the premises of every such park ground shall be properly graded and surfaced.
It is further provided that no license to conduct a trailer park or sleeping quarters intended to be provided as described in the application shall be issued if any of the sleeping quarters or any of the outside sanitary conveniences intended to be provided are within 25 feet of the property line of the park, and, where the property line of the park shall adjoin other private property, there shall be a living hedge at least six feet high.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 94-14, Removal of wheels prohibited, was repealed 6-1-1992 by Ord. No. 16-92.
No person shall permit any such licensed premises to be used for illegal purposes or suffer the violation thereon or therein of any penal law or of any ordinance of the township.
A. 
Such licensed place or premises shall at all times comply with all proper police, health and fire regulations imposed by the Township Committee or Board of Health.
B. 
Said business and the place and premises where conducted shall be subject to examination and inspection, at all reasonable times, by the Township Committee or a committee thereof and by the fire and health authorities of the township.
In case of failure or refusal to comply with any of the terms or provisions of this Article, the Township Committee may, on notice and hearing, refuse or revoke any license applied for or granted hereunder.
[Amended 7-6-1987]
Violation of any provision of this Article shall make the party guilty thereof liable to a penalty of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days or to a fine not to exceed $1,000, or both said fine and imprisonment. Each twenty-four-hour period of said violation shall be deemed to be a separate offense and punishable as aforesaid by fine or imprisonment, or both said fine and imprisonment.