Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different
meaning appears from the context, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
AUTOMOBILE TRAILER, TRAILER COACH, or TRAILER
Any vehicle or structure so designed and constructed in such
manner as will permit occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters for one
or more persons, or the conduct of any business or profession, occupation
or trade (or use as a selling or advertising device), and so designed
that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on
highways or city streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive
power, except a device used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
CABIN PLOT
A section of ground not less than 30 feet by 40 feet in area,
upon which only one camp cottage or cabin is located.
PERSON
Includes persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation,
tenant, owner, lessee, or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns.
TOURIST CAMP
Any park, tourist park, tourist court, camp, court, lot,
parcel, or tract of land upon which one or more camp cottages or cabins
are located and maintained for the accommodation of transients by
the day, week, or month, whether a charge is made or not.
TRAILER CAMP
Any park, trailer park, trailer court, court, camp, site,
lot, parcel, or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for
the purpose of supplying a location or accommodations for any trailer
coach or trailer coaches and upon which any trailer coach or trailer
coaches are parked and shall include all buildings used or intended
for use as part of the equipment thereof whether a charge is made
for the use of the trailer camp and its facilities or not. "Trailer
camp" shall not include automobile or trailer sales lots on which
unoccupied trailers are parked for purposes of inspection and sale.
UNIT
A section of ground in a trailer camp of not less than 800
square feet of unoccupied space in an area designated as the location
for only one automobile and one trailer.
Automobile trailers shall not be used as a permanent
place of abode or as a permanent dwelling or for indefinite periods
of time, provided that any such trailer properly connected with an
approved water supply and approved sanitary sewer system, and constructed
and located in compliance with all requirements of the building, plumbing,
sanitary and health ordinances of the Town of Sykesville and not inhabited
by a greater number of occupants than that for which it was designed
may be permitted on any premises under permits property secured as
provided for in said building, plumbing, sanitary and health ordinances.
[Amended 6-11-2007 by Ord. No. 268]
There is hereby imposed a service and inspection
charge of $0.75 per day per unit on the occupant or occupants of each
unit or trailer camps licensed hereunder. The licensee of the trailer
camp shall collect this service charge for the Town of Sykesville
and pay it over to the Treasurer in accordance with such reasonable
regulations as the Treasurer may promulgate governing such payments.
All plumbing, electrical, building and other
work on or at any camp licensed under this chapter shall be in accordance
with the ordinances of the Town of Sykesville regulating such work
unless said ordinances are specifically made inapplicable under the
terms of this chapter.
The Board of Investigators is hereby authorized
to revoke any license issued pursuant to the terms of this chapter
if after due investigation it determines that the holder thereof has
violated any of the provisions of this chapter or that any trailer,
trailer camp, or tourist camp is being maintained in an unsanitary
or unsafe manner or is a nuisance.
Any person aggrieved by an order of the Board
of Investigators granting, denying, renewing, or revoking a license
for a trailer camp or tourist camp, under this chapter, may file a
written request for a hearing before the Board within 10 days after
issuance of such order. The Board shall give notice of a public hearing
upon this request to be held in not less than five days after service
of the notice on the person requesting the hearing. The Board may
also give notice of the hearing to other persons directly interested
in the order in question. At such hearing, the Board shall determine
whether the granting, denial, renewal, or revocation of the license
was in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and shall issue
a written findings of fact, conclusions of law and an order to carry
out its findings and conclusions. These findings of fact, conclusions
of law, and order shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board and
served by the Board upon all parties appearing or represented at said
hearing.
Any order either granting, denying, renewing,
or revoking any license under the provisions of this chapter may be
appealed to the Circuit Court in the same manner as appeals from any
order under the building or zoning ordinances of the Town of Sykesville.
Appeals from such orders must be taken within 10 days after the order
is issued. Upon any such appeal the findings of fact of the Board
of Investigators, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive.