[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Town of Sykesville 4-13-1967 by Ord. No. 78. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning — See Ch. 180.
Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different
meaning appears from the context, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
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.
A section of ground not less than 30 feet by 40 feet in area,
upon which only one camp cottage or cabin is located.
Includes persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation,
tenant, owner, lessee, or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns.
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.
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.
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.
A.
A Board of Investigators consisting of the Town Council
is hereby created, with the President of the Council as Chairman.
The Chairman shall, with the approval of the members of said Board,
appoint a secretary for the Board from among the present employees
of the Town.
B.
It is hereby made the duty of said Board to enforce
all provisions of this chapter as prescribed herein or such provisions
as may hereafter be enacted, and for the purpose of securing such
enforcement, any of the above members of the Board, or their duly
authorized representatives, shall have the right and are hereby empowered
to enter upon any premises on which any automobile trailers or camp
cottages or cabins are located, or are about to be located, and inspect
the same and all accommodations connected therewith at any reasonable
time. The Board is further empowered to issue orders granting, renewing,
and revoking such permits and licenses as are provided for in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter.
[1]
Editor’s Note: Former § 156-3, Location of
trailers outside camps, was repealed 3-14-2011 by Ord. No. 274.
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.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish,
operate or maintain, or permit to be established, operated or maintained
upon any property owned or controlled by him, a trailer camp or tourist
camp or combination of the two within the Town of Sykesville, without
having first secured a license therefor and for each of them from
the Council, granted and existing in compliance with the terms of
this chapter. Such license shall expire one year from the date of
issuance but may be renewed under the provisions of this chapter for
additional periods of one year.
B.
The application for such license or the renewal thereof
shall be filed with the President of the Council and shall be accompanied
by a fee of $25 for each unit and cabin plot in the existing or proposed
camp and a license bond in the sum of $2,000 to guarantee compliance
with the terms of this chapter. The application for a license or a
renewal thereof shall be made on printed forms furnished by the Board
of Investigators and shall include the name and address of the owner
in fee of the tract (if the fee is vested in some person other than
the applicant, a duly verified statement by that person that the applicant
is authorized by him to construct or maintain the trailer or tourist
camp and make the application), and such a legal description of the
premises upon which the trailer or tourist camp is or will be located
as will readily identify and definitely locate the premises. The application
shall be accompanied by four copies of the camp plan showing the following,
either existing or as proposed:
(1)
The extent and area used for camp purposes,
(2)
Roadways and driveways.
(3)
Location of sites or units for trailer coaches or
cabins.
(4)
Location and number of sanitary conveniences, including
toilets, washrooms, laundries and utility rooms to be used by occupants
of units or cabins (in cases where cabins do not have all such facilities
in proper conformance with Town building, plumbing and other ordinances).
(5)
Method and plan of sewage disposal.
(6)
Method and plan a garbage removal.
(7)
Plan for water supply.
(8)
Plan for electrical lighting of units and cabins.
C.
Before such license may be issued, the premises must
be inspected and approved by each of the members of the Board of Investigators
or his duly authorized representative, as complying with all the provisions
of this chapter and all other applicable ordinances of the Town of
Sykesville.
D.
Licenses issued under the terms of this chapter convey
no right to erect any building, to do any plumbing work or to do any
electrical work.
A.
No trailer or tourist camp shall be located within
the Town limits of the Town of Sykesville unless Town water and sewer
connections and fire protection facilities are available.
B.
No occupied trailer or camp cottage or cabin cottage
or cabin or other building shall be located within the Town limits
of the Town of Sykesville, within 40 feet of a road in which such
trailer or cabin is located nor less than 25 feet from any other building
or vehicle or the boundary line of the tract on which located.
A.
Every trailer or tourist camp shall be located on
a well-drained area, and the premises shall be properly graded so
as to prevent the accumulation of storm- or other waters.
B.
Units and cabin plots shall be clearly designated
and the camp so arranged that all units and cabin plots shall face
or abut on a driveway of not less than 16 feet in width, giving easy
access from all units to a public street. Such driveway shall be paved
and maintained in good condition, having natural drainage into a Town
street catch basin, be well lighted at night, and shall not be obstructed.
C.
No camp cottage or cabin shall be less than 280 square
feet nor less than 14 feet wide at its narrowest point, and not less
than eight feet high from floor to ceiling and shall not have less
than 27 square feet of ventilating openings, and all windows must
be fully screened. If the floor be of wood, it shall be raised not
less than 12 inches above the ground level.
D.
The camp shall be so laid out that no unit or cabin
shall be located farther than 200 feet from the toilets and service
buildings provided for herein, and walkways to such buildings shall
be paved and well lighted at night.
E.
Every trailer unit shall be furnished with an electric
service outlet. Such outlet shall be equipped with an externally operated
switch or fuse of not less than 30 amperes capacity, and a heavy-duty
outlet receptacle.
A.
An adequate supply of pure water, furnished through
a pipe distribution system connected directly with the Town water
main, with supply faucets located not more than 200 feet from any
trailer or cabin shall be furnished for drinking and domestic purposes.
B.
No common drinking vessels shall be permitted, nor
shall any drinking water faucets be placed in any toilet room or water
closet compartment.
C.
An abundant supply of hot water shall be provided
at all times for bathing, washing, and laundry facilities.
A.
Every trailer or tourist camp shall have erected thereon,
at a distance not greater than 200 feet from any unit or cabin it
is designed to serve, a suitable building for housing toilets, showers,
and laundry facilities as required by this chapter, such building
to be known as the "service building."
B.
There shall be provided separate toilet rooms for
each sex. Flush toilets provided with an adequate water supply shall
be enclosed in separate compartments having a minimum width of five
feet, eight inches, and shall be provided for each sex in the ratio
of one toilet for each six units or cabins or fraction thereof. Every
male toilet room shall have one urinal for each 14 units or cabins,
but in no case shall any male toilet be without one urinal. Toilet
rooms shall contain lavatories with hot and cold water in the ratio
of one lavatory to every two or fewer water closets.
C.
Separate bathing facilities for each sex shall be
provided with one shower enclosed in a compartment at least four feet
square, for each six units or cabins or fraction thereof. Each shower
compartment shall be supplemented by an individual dressing compartment
of at least 14 square feet.
D.
Laundry facilities shall be provided in the ratio
of one double tray and one ironing board for each eight units or cabins.
E.
The above accommodations shall be based on the total
camp capacity according to accepted plans.
F.
Floors or toilets, showers, and the laundry shall
be of concrete, tile or similar material impervious to water and easily
cleaned and pitched to a floor drain.
A.
All waste from showers, toilets, laundries, faucets
and lavatories shall be wasted into a sewer system extended from and
connected with the Town sewer system.
B.
All sanitary facilities in any trailer which are not
connected with the Town sewer system by means of rigid pipe connections
shall be sealed and their use is hereby declared unlawful.
C.
Each faucet site shall be equipped with facilities
for drainage of waste and excess water into the sewer. In no case
shall any wastewater be thrown or discharged upon the surface of the
ground or disposed of my means other than as herein provided.
D.
Every unit shall be provided with a substantial fly-tight
metal garbage depository from which the contents shall be removed
by the Town garbage collection service.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to remain or live in any trailer or tourist camp for more than 30 days in each twelve-month period, subject to the provisions of § 156-4 of this chapter, except that upon a showing and proof that one or more occupants of a trailer or cabin are engaged in vital national defense work and that there exists in the community a shortage of adequate housing facilities, additional stays of 30 days may be granted by the Board of Investigators, such additional stays being renewable at the end of each thirty-day period upon a further and similar showing, provided that this time limitation shall not apply to the licensee of a trailer or tourist camp or his bona fide employees so as to prevent their remaining on the camp premises at all times.
B.
No trailer or cabin may be inhabited by a greater
number of occupants than that for which it was designed.
A.
In every trailer or tourist camp there shall be an
office building in which shall be located the office of the person
in charge of said camp. A copy of the camp license and of this chapter
shall be posted therein and the camp register shall at all times be
kept in said office.
B.
It is hereby made the duty of the attendant or person
in charge, together with the licensee to:
(1)
Keep at all times a register of all guests (which
shall be open at all times to inspection by state and federal officers
and officers of the Town of Sykesville) showing for all guests:
(2)
Maintain the camp in a clean, orderly and sanitary
condition at all times.
(3)
See that the provisions of this chapter are complied
with and enforced and report promptly to the proper authorities any
violations of this chapter or any other violations of law which may
come to his attention.
(4)
Report to the President of the Town Council all cases
of persons or animals affected or suspected of being affected with
any communicable disease.
(5)
Prevent the running loose of dogs, cats, or other
animals or pets.
(6)
Maintain in convenient places hand fire extinguishers,
approved by the Fire Marshal for Carroll County, in the ratio of one
to each six units or cabins.
(7)
Collect the service charge provided for in § 156-13 of this chapter, from the occupants of each unit in the camp and pay over the money so collected to the Treasurer of the Town of Sykesville. A book shall be kept showing the names of the persons paying said service charges and the amount paid.
[Amended 6-11-2007 by Ord. No. 268]
(8)
Prohibit the lighting of open fires on the premises.
(9)
Prohibit the use of any trailer or cabin by a greater
number of occupants than that which it is designed to accommodate.
[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.
A.
Any person found guilty of violating any provision
of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall
be fined not less than $5 and not more than $100, and every day such
violation exists shall constitute a separate offense and be punishable
as such hereunder.
B.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent
with or contrary hereto are hereby repealed, except, nothing in this
chapter shall be interpreted so as to conflict with the State Housing
Laws, state legislation regulating trailers, trailer camps or tourist
camps or any of the requirements of any ordinances of the Town of
Sykesville not mentioned or made inapplicable by the express terms
of this chapter.
