No one may commence operating a mobile dwelling park after the effective date of this chapter without applying for and obtaining a special permit, as hereinafter provided. No one may enlarge, alter, extend or reconstruct a mobile dwelling park legally existing prior to the effective date of this chapter, or a mobile dwelling park whose operation commenced after the effective date of this chapter without applying for and obtaining a special permit, as hereinafter provided. No one may operate a mobile dwelling park of any kind without applying for and obtaining an operating permit, as hereinafter provided. No permit shall be required of the owner of a mobile dwelling who maintains such mobile dwelling in a mobile dwelling park.
Before any improvements are made to real property for the purpose of operating a mobile dwelling park, or for the purpose of enlarging, altering, extending or reconstructing a mobile dwelling park, the operator must apply for and obtain a special permit. Special permits shall be granted by the Planning Board, upon its determination that the proposed mobile dwelling park, or proposed enlargement, alteration, extension or reconstruction of a mobile dwelling park, fully complies with the standards of this chapter for such parks, and with the standards in § 120-32D of Chapter 120, Land Use. The procedures set forth in § 120-322 of Chapter 120, Land Use, shall be followed in an application for a special permit herein. The Planning Board may impose conditions on any special permit herein, if it determines that doing so is necessary to adequately protect the health, safety and welfare of the public, and it may deny an application for a special permit if it determines that it is not possible to adequately protect the health, safety and welfare of the public.
The following information must be provided in an application for any special permit herein:
A. 
A legal description of property on which the proposed mobile dwelling park or the proposed enlargement, alteration, extension or reconstruction of a mobile dwelling park will be located.
B. 
A sketch map must be enclosed with said application and must contain at least:
(1) 
A general sketch of proposed mobile dwelling park or any proposed enlargement, alteration, extension or reconstruction of a mobile dwelling park, including the number of lots, lot size, mobile dwelling stands, recreation areas, accessory buildings, service buildings, internal streets and rights-of-ways and landscaping plans;
(2) 
Abutting property owners and present use of this property;
(3) 
Present and/or proposed access roads;
(4) 
Present and/or proposed sewer, water and other utility lines; and
(5) 
A topographical map showing any unusual special land features such as streams, creeks, areas subject to flooding, and areas of steep slopes in excess of 15°.
C. 
Such additional information may be required by the Planning Board, including the information specified by §§ 120-33A and B of Chapter 120, Land Use.
The application fee for a special permit herein shall be the same as the fee prescribed for special permits pursuant to Chapter 120, Land Use.
A. 
Upon deposit of the required fee with the Town Clerk, that official shall forward the completed application and required supporting information to the Planning Board.
B. 
The Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the application according to the special permit procedures in § 120-23B of Chapter 120, Land Use. The applicant, or representatives of the same, may be requested to attend Planning Board meetings for further clarification of the plot plan.
C. 
The Planning Board may approve, approve on conditions, or deny an application. The Planning Board shall file with the Town Clerk the final plans for all approved special permits. Upon approval of an application by the Planning Board, the Town Clerk shall issue a special permit to the applicant.
[Amended 4-21-1997 by L.L. No. 2-1997]
A. 
No one may operate a mobile dwelling park without applying for and obtaining an operating permit. An operator of a mobile dwelling park which commences operation after the effective date of this chapter or of a mobile dwelling park for which a special permit for enlargement, alteration, extension or reconstruction has been sought shall apply for an operating permit after receiving a special permit as required herein, and before commencing operations. The Planning Board shall grant the initial operating permit to such an applicant, upon its determination that:
(1) 
All improvements required by the applicant's special permit final plans have been made;
(2) 
Any conditions on the applicant's special permit have been fulfilled;
(3) 
All other standards under this chapter have been met; and
(4) 
That the operating permit fee has been paid.
B. 
An operator of a legally preexisting mobile dwelling park shall apply to the Town Clerk for an operating permit within 90 days of the effective date of this chapter. The Town Clerk shall issue an initial operating permit upon payment of the operating permit fee.
C. 
All operating permits shall be for a twenty-four-month period. Prior to the expiration of the initial operating permit, the mobile dwelling park operator shall apply for a renewal of his/her operating permit. The Code Enforcement Officer shall issue renewal operating permits, upon his/her determination that:
(1) 
All improvements required by any special permit final plans for the mobile dwelling park have been maintained;
(2) 
Any conditions on any special permit continue to be fulfilled;
(3) 
All other standards under this chapter have been met;
(4) 
The standards of Article VIII for the improvement of a legally preexisting mobile dwelling park have been met; and
(5) 
The operating permit fee has been paid.
The fee for an initial and for a renewal of an operating permit shall be as set by resolution of the Town Board from time to time.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[Amended 4-21-1997 by L.L. No. 2-1997]
A. 
Each mobile dwelling park shall be inspected once every two years at the time of application for an operating permit renewal. The Code Enforcement Officer of the Township of Eaton shall enforce all of the provisions of this chapter and shall inspect such mobile dwelling park at reasonable time to verify the mobile dwelling park's continued compliance with this chapter. Mobile dwelling parks that are subject to the application of the State Code for Mobile Dwelling Parks (10 NYCRR Part 17) shall only be inspected by the Code Enforcement Officer as to the following:
(1) 
That all improvements required by any special permit final plans for the mobile dwelling park have been maintained;
(2) 
That any conditions on any special permit continue to be fulfilled; and
(3) 
That the standards of Article VIII for the improvement of a legally preexisting mobile dwelling park have been met.
B. 
The Code Enforcement Officer shall deem that all other standards under this chapter have been met by such mobile dwelling parks subject to said State Code upon presentation of satisfactory evidence that such mobile dwelling parks have a valid operating permit pursuant to said State Code.
C. 
The Code Enforcement Officer shall submit a written review of his findings to the Town Planning Board and to the permit holder. The Code Enforcement Officer may obtain the assistance of the Health Department for such inspection.
[Amended 4-21-1997 by L.L. No. 2-1997]
All permits are transferable upon written notification to and approval by the Planning Board.
A representative of the Town of Eaton's Code Enforcement Officer may inspect a mobile dwelling park at reasonable intervals and at reasonable times to determine compliance with this chapter.
[Amended 4-21-1997 by L.L. No. 2-1997]
The mobile dwelling park operator shall operate the park in compliance with this chapter and shall provide adequate supervision to maintain the park, its facilities and equipment in good repair and in a clean, sanitary condition. It shall be the obligation of every mobile dwelling park operator to ensure that the park and every mobile dwelling lot and stand and every other improvement within the park is at all times in compliance with the requirements of this chapter and any other applicable statute or regulation. Upon any breach of this obligation, the mobile dwelling park operator shall be subject to the enforcement provisions of this chapter.