[R.O. 2009 §16-19; Code 1975 §740.230]
This Article shall apply to any person operating, maintaining
or offering for use within the City any mobile home park of whatever
kind, kept, used, maintained or advertised or held out to the public
to be a place where mobile home parking space is furnished for pay
to any transient or permanent guest in which two (2) or more spaces
for mobile home parking are furnished for the accommodation of guests.
[R.O. 2009 §16-20; Code 1975 §740.020]
For the purposes of this Article, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this Section:
A mobile home which does not have a toilet and bath or shower.
A mobile home space which is designated to accommodate a
dependent mobile home and does not have sewer and water connections
to accommodate a toilet and bath or shower in a mobile home.
A mobile home that has a toilet and bath or shower.
A mobile home space which has sewer and water connections
designated to accommodate the toilet and bath or shower contained
in an independent mobile home.
Any person licensed to operate and maintain a mobile home
park under the provisions of this Article.
Any vehicle either self-propelled or propelled by means of
being attached to a motor vehicle which may be used as the place of
abode or sleeping place by one (1) or more persons and which has no
foundation other than slab, piers, footings, skirting, jacks or the
wheels required for its movement from one place to another.
A lot which is used or offered as a location for two (2)
or more mobile homes and within which lot a mobile home may be supported
either by its wheels or by a foundation of any sort.
A plot of ground within a mobile home park designed for the
accommodation of one (1) mobile home.
[R.O. 2009 §16-21; Code 1975 §740.010]
A.
The location
of mobile home parks shall be restricted to property which is excepted
from the zoning ordinance. Mobile home parks shall not be located
where adequate surface drainage is impractical. Sufficient area shall
be available for all parking space, roadway, walkway, service buildings,
water supply, sewage disposal and other sanitary and service requirements.
B.
Each
boundary of a mobile home park shall be at least three hundred (300)
feet from any permanent residential building located outside the park;
provided however, that the person seeking to establish any such park
may secure signers in the area, within such three hundred (300) feet,
to a petition favoring the establishment of such park and present
the same to the Council. Thereafter, the Council may consider such
petition and any other petition or protest to the establishment of
the park and thereupon sustain or waive such requirement.
[R.O. 2009 §16-22; Code 1975 §740.050]
Mobile home spaces shall be provided consisting of a minimum
of twelve hundred (1,200) square feet for each space which shall be
at least twenty-five (25) feet wide and clearly defined. Mobile homes
shall be so harbored on each space that there shall be at least fifteen
(15) feet clearance between mobile homes. No mobile home shall be
located closer than ten (10) feet from any property line bounding
the park, nor within five (5) feet of the boundary of the mobile home
space.
[R.O. 2009 §16-23; Code 1975 §740.060]
All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a driveway of not less
than twenty (20) feet in width which shall have unobstructed access
to a public street, alley or highway. All driveways shall be hard
surfaced, well marked in the daytime and lighted at night with lamps
of not less than one hundred (100) watts at intervals of one hundred
(100) feet located approximately fifteen (15) feet from the ground.
[R.O. 2009 §16-24; Code 1975 §740.070]
Walkways not less than two (2) feet wide shall be provided from
the mobile home spaces to the service buildings. The walkways shall
be hard surfaced, well marked in the daytime and lighted at night
with lamps of not less than one hundred (100) watts at intervals of
one hundred (100) feet located approximately fifteen (15) feet from
the ground.
[R.O. 2009 §16-25; Code 1975 §740.080]
Each mobile home park shall be provided with service buildings
to house toilet facilities, bathing facilities, laundry facilities
and other sanitary facilities as more particularly prescribed by this
Article.
[R.O. 2009 §16-26; Code 1975 §740.090]
Buildings in mobile home parks shall be located in an area affording
sufficient shade to reasonably protect same from direct sun rays.
[R.O. 2009 §16-27; Code 1975 §740.100]
Buildings housing mobile home park toilet facilities, other
sanitation facilities and service facilities and toilet rooms shall
be well lighted and ventilated and provided with artificial light
for night use. Toilet rooms shall be equipped with toilet paper, lavatory
facilities, soap in dispensers and individual towels. Such buildings
shall be permanent structures, substantially constructed and maintained
in good repair and shall be located not closer than ten (10) feet
to any trailer coach space, nor further than two hundred (200) feet
from any dependent mobile home.
[R.O. 2009 §16-28; Code 1975 §740.110]
A.
All structures
located on mobile home parks for service buildings, housing of facilities
and storage, preparation and serving of food shall be substantially
constructed and maintained in a sanitary manner. All doors and windows
shall be properly screened with screen wire not larger than sixteen
(16) meshes to the inch. All buildings shall be constructed and maintained
in a rat-proof and rat-free manner.
B.
Buildings
housing toilet facilities, other sanitation facilities and service
facilities shall be constructed of moistureproof material, including
painted woodwork, which will permit repeated cleaning and washing
and shall be maintained at a temperature of at least sixty-eight degrees
Fahrenheit (68°) during the period from October first (1st) to
May first (1st). The floors of such buildings shall be of water impervious
material and slope to a floor drain connected with the sewer system.
[R.O. 2009 §16-29; Code 1975 §740.120]
An electrical outlet supplying at least one hundred ten (110)
volts shall be provided for each mobile home space.
[R.O. 2009 §16-30; Code 1975 §740.130]
A.
An adequate
accessible supply of potable drinking water approved by the State
shall be provided at all mobile home parks. Should water be supplied
to a park by the City, the maximum rate shall be charged therefor.
Water from a source other than a municipal supply shall not be used
until it has been approved by the State.
B.
No unsafe
water supply shall be available on the park grounds. No common drinking
cups shall be allowed. The water shall be distributed from faucets
only and cold water supply faucets shall be located at each mobile
home space. An adequate supply of hot water at a temperature of not
less than one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit (140°F) shall be
available at all times in the service buildings provided for bathing,
washing and laundry purposes.
[R.O. 2009 §16-31; Code 1975 §740.140]
A.
Adequate
flush toilets shall be provided at all mobile home parks and maintained
in a clean and sanitary condition at all times. Separate flush toilets
which are readily accessible and plainly indicated by signs shall
be provided for each of the sexes.
B.
A minimum
of two (2) flush toilets shall be provided for each sex that are housed
in separate buildings at least twenty (20) feet apart or separated,
if in the same building, by soundproof walls.
C.
Toilet
facilities for women shall consist of not less than one (1) flush
toilet for every ten (10) dependent mobile home spaces and toilet
facilities for men shall consist of not less than one (1) flush toilet
and one (1) urinal for each fifteen (15) dependent mobile home spaces.
D.
Each
toilet shall be in a private compartment in which a lavatory, shower
or bathtub may be installed and all toilet rooms, toilets, urinals
and other plumbing fixtures shall be kept clean, sanitary and free
from flies.
[R.O. 2009 §16-32; Code 1975 §740.150]
A.
Adequate
lavatory and bathing facilities shall be provided at all mobile home
parks and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition at all times.
Separate facilities, which are readily accessible and plainly indicated
by sign, shall be provided for each of the sexes.
B.
A minimum
of two (2) lavatories and two (2) showers or bathtubs that are easily
accessible and conveniently located shall be provided for each sex.
C.
Soap
and towels shall be provided for individual use only. Bathhouse and
shower floors shall be cleaned and disinfected daily.
[R.O. 2009 §16-33; Code 1975 §740.160]
Adequate laundry facilities shall be provided at all mobile
home parks and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition at all
times. Such laundry facilities shall be readily accessible and conveniently
located.
[R.O. 2009 §16-34; Code 1975 §740.170]
All mobile home parks shall be properly plumbed and all buildings
in which plumbing fixtures are installed shall be plumbed, lighted
and ventilated with strict regard to the health, comfort and safety
of the guests. Adequate disposal of sewage shall be provided by discharge
into a public sanitary sewer, provided that a public sanitary sewer
is now or shall hereafter be available, but no provision of this Code
or other ordinances or regulations regarding sewer connections and
charges therefor is hereby repealed. If a public sanitary sewer is
not available, disposal shall be by discharge into a suitable sewage
treatment device, such sewage treatment device to be constructed and
operated in a manner approved by the State and the City.
[R.O. 2009 §16-35; Code 1975 §740.180]
Sanitary connections approved by the Building Official for water
supply and sewage disposal shall be provided at each independent mobile
home space.
[R.O. 2009 §16-36; Code 1975 §740.190]
All garbage and refuse in mobile home parks shall be stored
in tight receptacles with tight-fitting covers and shall be removed
from the premises and disposed of daily. Garbage and refuse shall
be disposed of either by incineration, burial or other method approved
by the State and the City.
[R.O. 2009 §16-37; Code 1975 §740.200]
Suitable and adequate precautions shall be taken upon mobile
home parks premises to eliminate and control all possible fire hazards.
Suitable and adequate first aid fire appliances shall be provided
and maintained. One (1) fire extinguisher of soda and acid or water
and pump type, of two and one-half (2½) gallon capacity or
equivalent, in good working order and conveniently located, shall
be maintained for every ten (10) mobile home spaces and for every
two thousand (2,000) square feet of floor area or fraction thereof
in every building located in the park. No fire hazards shall be maintained
on the premises.
[R.O. 2009 §16-38; Code 1975 §740.210]
Each licensee under this Article shall keep a register, a record
book to be signed by every guest, giving his/her full name, street
and City residence address and number of State license tags for his/her
automobile and mobile home, together with the name of the State that
issued such tags. Such record book shall be open to the inspection
of the Mayor or the Chief of Police and their authorized agents or
representatives.
[R.O. 2009 §16-39; Code 1975 §740.220]
Each mobile home park site, buildings and surroundings shall
be maintained in a neat and presentable manner.
[R.O. 2009 §16-51; Code 1975 §850.500]
No person shall operate, maintain or offer for use any mobile
home park without first obtaining from the City Clerk a license as
provided in this Division.
[R.O. 2009 §16-52; Code 1975 §850.510]
No license shall be issued by the City Clerk under this Division
until the location and licensee are approved by the City Council and
no owner of land or improvements thereon shall lease or let the same
to be used as a mobile home park until the site has been inspected
and the location and licensee approved by the City Council.
[R.O. 2009 §16-54; Code 1975 §850.530]
In case any license issued for mobile home parks is revoked,
surrendered or forfeited by the licensee, not used or used only for
a portion of the license period, after the effective date of such
license, no refund of any license charge or part thereof shall be
made.
[R.O. 2009 §16-55; Code 1975 §740.240]
A.
The City
Council, if it shall be shown upon a hearing before the Council that
any licensee has violated the provisions of this Article or the Code
of the Division of Health of the State concerning mobile home parks,
may revoke the license of an issued licensee; provided however, that
the City Clerk shall first, upon motion of the City Council, direct
a notice of the date, time and place of such hearing, setting forth
the grounds upon which such license is sought to be revoked and commanding
the licensee to appear and show cause why such license should not
be revoked. Such notice shall be served by the City Clerk upon the
licensee or upon any employee of the licensee at the time of service
in charge of the place of business licensed. The licensee shall have
full right to have counsel and to produce witnesses in his/her behalf
in such hearing. Such hearing shall be conducted as other proceedings
of the City Council are conducted and no license shall be revoked
except upon vote thereof by a majority of the members elected to the
City Council, the Mayor having no vote except in case of a tie vote
by the members elected to the Council.
B.
Any person
convicted for the violation of any of the terms or provisions of this
Article shall automatically have the license revoked and no person
so finally convicted shall be issued any license under this Article
or a renewal thereof for a period of two (2) years from the date of
such conviction. Upon any such final conviction, it shall be the duty
of the City Clerk to certify such conviction to the City Council at
the first (1st) meeting of the Council after such conviction.
