[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.
[Amended 6-1-1992 by Ord. No. 16-92]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
See the definition of "mobile home" in § 94-23.
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.
