[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Rye 5-18-1939. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as the "Automobile Trailer, Tourist
Parks and Camps and Automobile Tourist Parks and Camps Ordinance."
It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the health, safety,
morals and general welfare of the inhabitants of that portion of the
Town of Rye being outside the limits of any incorporated village therein,
by the more efficient regulation of automobile trailers, tourist parks,
and camps and automobile tourist parks and camps.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any plot of ground where accommodation is provided for one
or more automobile trailers or house cars used or arranged to be used
for living or sleeping quarters.
Any vehicle used or arranged to be used for living or as
sleeping quarters mounted on wheels and movable or propelled either
by its own power or drawn by another power-driven vehicle.
Any plot of ground upon which one or more camp cottages or
cabins used for or arranged to be used for the accommodation of transients
by the day, week or month.
That portion of a tourist park or camp or automobile tourist
park or camp set apart for the use of an individual cottage, cabin,
automobile trailer or house car.
From and after the passage of this chapter, it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to park, place, keep or maintain
any camp, cottage, cabin, automobile trailer or house car as herein
defined within that portion of the Town of Rye being outside the limits
of any incorporated village therein, except in a duly licensed tourist
park or camp, or automobile tourist park or camp, or a combination
of such as hereinafter provided.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
establish, maintain, operate or conduct within that portion of the
Town of Rye being outside the limits of any incorporated village therein
any tourist park or camp or any automobile tourist park or camp or
any combination of such, unless duly licensed so to do as hereinafter
provided, and in strict compliance with this chapter and all other
provisions of law and ordinances applicable thereto.
An application for a license provided for under §§ 55-4 and 55-5 shall be made to the Building Inspector upon a form to be furnished by him; said application shall state the name and address of the owner of the premises, the name and address of the applicant and the nature and extent of his interest in the business for which a license is desired, the location and plot plan of the tourist park or camp, or automobile tourist park or camp, and the number of units to be provided for therein, detailed plans and specifications of all buildings, structures, plumbing, sewer and drainage systems and lighting and any other information required by the Building Inspector. Such application shall be accompanied by a fee of $5 for every five units or less, plus $1 for each additional five units or fraction thereof, which shall cover the required investigation, but if a license is subsequently issued, said fees shall be applied on account of the license fee, but in the event a license is not issued, such investigation fee shall be retained by the Town.
The Building Inspector shall examine and investigate the statements
contained in such application together with the plans and specifications
and shall report to the Town Board of the Town of Rye his recommendations
thereon. Before making such recommendations, the Building Inspector
may refer such application to the Westchester County Department of
Health, for its investigation and recommendation and the said Building
Inspector may adopt its recommendations if not inconsistent with the
provisions of this chapter.
A.
The Town Board of the Town of Rye shall consider the report of the
Building Inspector and may for that purpose hold a public hearing
upon notice prescribed by said Board upon such application and shall
determine whether the proposed tourist park or camp or automobile
tourist park or camp complies with this chapter. If such application
is acted upon favorably by the Town Board, it shall direct the Town
Clerk to issue a license to the applicant upon payment of the following
fee:
B.
Each license shall be for a period of one year and shall expire on
the 31st day of December in the year succeeding its issuance. The
fee for such license shall not be prorated for any lesser period than
one year, and such license shall always be on display in the office
of the tourist park or camp or automobile tourist park or camp.
A tourist park or camp shall be located on a well drained site
of adequate size, the land of which shall be free from heavy or dense
growth of brush or weeds. The land shall be properly graded so as
to insure rapid drainage during and following rain, and free from
stagnant pools of water, and each such park or camp must be accessible
to the public sewer, and each trailer, house car, cottage or cabin
or by whatever other name known, placed or located thereon used for
or designed to be used for living or sleeping quarters, shall have
a separate connection for sewage purposes and be connected with a
sanitary sewer service.
A.
Each unit in which camp, cottage or cabin is erected or placed or
which accommodates an automobile trailer or house car, shall not be
less than 30 feet by 50 feet in area, which area shall be clearly
defined by markers at each corner. No cottage or cabin used or arranged
for use for living quarters or sleeping quarters shall be less than
280 square feet, of which no dimension shall be less than 14 feet
and shall not be less than eight feet high from the floor to the ceiling,
and shall have not less than 27 square feet of ventilating openings
or windows, all being adequately screened. If the floor be of wood,
it shall not be less than 12 inches above the level of the ground.
B.
The roof of each cottage or cabin shall extend sufficiently beyond
the exterior walls so that all roof water shall fall free of the walls.
C.
Each cottage or cabin and each automobile trailer or house car shall
not be less than 20 feet from any property line and from any other
building, structure, cottage, cabin or automobile trailer or house
car.
All entrances and exits from any park or camp shall be well
marked and so arranged as not to constitute a traffic hazard. All
driveways within the tourist camp shall be hard-surfaced, not less
than 25 feet in width, well marked in the daytime and lighted at night
and so located that each unit in the camp is readily accessible to
a driveway.
No tourist park or camp, and no automobile tourist park or camp
shall provide toilets, urinals, slop basins, wash basins, showers
or baths, but each unit in such park or camp shall be separately equipped
with such facilities and so constructed therein that each can be separately
connected with a sanitary sewer.
All plumbing and sanitary installations shall be made in accordance
with the Plumbing, Sanitary and Building Codes of the Town of Rye,
and comply with the rules and regulations of the Westchester County
Department of Health, and any other law, rule, regulation or ordinance
of the Town of Rye applicable thereto.
A covered metal garbage pail and a covered metal rubbish container
of adequate size shall be provided for each unit.
A.
Every tourist park or camp or automobile tourist park or camp shall
be under the management of the licensee who must be of good reputation
and character and who shall manage such camp from an office located
on the premises. There shall be maintained in such office a bound
book containing a record of the names of any persons accommodated
at the camp, their occupation, dates of arrival and departure, their
home addresses, the license number and make of their automobile or
other vehicle. Such record shall at all reasonable times be available
for inspection by the Building Inspector or any police officer having
jurisdiction in the Town of Rye.
B.
It shall be the duty of the licensee of any such park or camp:
(1)
To provide for the daily collection and removal of garbage and other
waste material.
(2)
To prohibit the placing or storage of unsightly materials or vehicles
of any kind.
(3)
To provide for the cleaning of the grounds in connection with such
camp or park, so as to maintain the same in a proper sanitary condition
at all times.
(4)
To take such other measures as may be deemed necessary by the Westchester
County Department of Health, and/or the Building Inspector of the
Town of Rye, to preserve the health, comfort and safety of all persons
accommodated in the camp or park and of the general public.
(5)
To prevent any animal to run at large within or outside the park
or camp.
(6)
To report to the Westchester County Health Department all cases of
communicable disease or suspected cases of communicable diseases affecting
any inmate of the camp or park.
(7)
To prevent the committing of any nuisance on the park or camp premises,
and to report immediately to the proper authorities all acts of a
disorderly character committed by any person or persons inside of
the camp or park, and to that end to maintain proper policing thereof.
No license shall be granted for the construction or operation
of such a park or camp in violation of the Zoning or other ordinances
of the Town of Rye.
The Building Inspector may upon his own initiative or upon the
recommendation of the Westchester County Department of Health, or
of the Police Department having jurisdiction in the Town of Rye, revoke
or suspend the license granted under authority of this chapter, for
failure to comply with any provisions hereof, or of any laws or regulations
relating to any such camp or park.
The owner, lessee, licensee, occupant of or person accommodated
in any such park or camp who commits any act in violation of any of
the provisions of this chapter shall each be liable for any such violation
and for the penalty therefor. Each day such violation shall continue
or be permitted to exist shall constitute a separate violation.
Any person, or persons, firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
in any one case of violation $100, to be recovered with costs, and
any such violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person
violating the same shall be a disorderly person and punishable by
a fine not exceeding $50 or by imprisonment not exceeding 50 days,
or both such fine and imprisonment.
If any section, part or provisions of this chapter shall be
held unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the
validity of this chapter as a whole, or any part thereof other than
the part so held unconstitutional or invalid.
None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to
the storage or garaging of a house trailer when not used as living
quarters.
This chapter shall take effect immediately upon the publishing
and posting thereof, as required by law.
