[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #540, § 1; Ord. #720; 1958 Code § 26.1; Ord. #97-05]
As used in this section:
CAMPING STRUCTURES
Shall mean and include camp cottages as they are commonly known, tents, tent houses, house cars, auto camp cars, recreational vehicles and trailers, used for, or adaptable to use for living quarters.
ENCAMPMENT
Shall mean any place where two (2) or more camping structures are located, or any premises designed or intended for the purpose of supplying to the public a location for a camping structure.
MOTEL
Shall mean any group of buildings, either connected or separated, which shall be erected and maintained under the usual building restrictions and maintenance of a "hotel" as defined in the Building Code of the City, and containing auto storage accommodations, built according to such "hotel" restrictions, for each unit of living accommodations.
UNIT
Shall mean a section of ground in any encampment used, or designed for use, as a location for a single camping structure.
[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #540, § 1; Ord. #790; 1958 Code § 26.2; Ord. #97-05]
Group K occupancies, for the purpose of the Building Code of the City, shall mean and include encampments, tourist camps, tourist cottages, trailer coach camps or cottages, and the keeping of trailer coaches within the City.
Group K occupancies shall not include, but shall specifically exclude, "motels" as defined in subsection 5-9.1 of this chapter.
[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #790; 1958 Code § 26.3]
The requirements of this section governing, controlling and regulating auto camps, tourist camps, tourist cottages and the keeping of trailer coaches, shall be considered additional to any other requirements contained in this Code or in the Building Code[1] of the City, as well as additional to the requirement of any other ordinance concerning buildings generally within the City.
[1]
Editor's Note: For adoption of Building Code, see subsection 12-1.1 of this Code.
[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #790; Ord. #70-012, § 1; Ord. #74-06, § 1; 1958 Code § 26.4]
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, keep or maintain, or to permit to be placed, kept or maintained, any trailer coach used for human habitation upon any lot, piece or parcel of land within the City, except in trailer camps; provided, however, that not to exceed one (1) such trailer coach may be placed, kept or maintained in the rear of any private residential building other than an apartment house or hotel, as such are defined in the State Housing Act,[1] providing that such trailer coach is not placed closer than ten (10') feet to any building or closer than five (5') to any property line other than a public street or alley line. Such trailer coach shall be used only for sleeping quarters, and none of the sanitary and cooking facilities in or a part of such trailer coach shall be used. Such trailer coach shall not be kept or maintained for sleeping purposes as permitted herein for more than fifteen (15) days in any three-month period, unless such time has been extended by action of the City Council.
No motor vehicle, trailer, coach, camper or any device designed to be carried upon or drawn by any vehicle, whether such device is upon, attached to or detached from any vehicle, shall, while parked or placed upon any City street, or street open to the public within the corporate limits of the City, be used for the purpose of sleeping, cooking or using of the sanitary facilities therein.
Temporary travel trailer visits may be allowed in parking lot areas westerly of Freeway 80 in the City upon obtaining a permit therefor from the City Council; such permit shall set forth conditions as the Council feels reasonable and necessary to preserve the peace, health and sanitation of the City. The Council may require from applicant a permit fee to reimburse City for costs of administration and enforcement.
[1]
Editor's Note: As to State Housing Act generally, see H. & S. C. A., §§15000 to 17902.
[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #790; 1958 Code §§ 26.5 to 26.13; Ord. #92-05, § 6; Ord. #97-05]
a. 
Permit to Establish and Maintain. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or maintain, upon any property owned or controlled by him, an encampment in the City, unless there exists a valid permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 3 of the Uniform Building Code, adopted by subsection 12-1.1 of this Code.
The application for such permit, in addition to the requirements specified in Chapter 3 of such Building Code, shall be accompanied by plans of the proposed encampment, showing the location of all buildings, driveways, toilet facilities, showers, laundry facilities, slop sinks, hydrants and other improvements.
A permit fee as is set forth in the City of Albany Master Fee Schedule shall be charged before any such permit shall be issued, and a renewal fee shall be paid each year during existence of such permit and in the amount as is set forth in the City of Albany Master Fee Schedule.
The approval of the City Council shall be necessary before the bureau of buildings and inspections shall grant a permit under this subsection. For this purpose a public hearing shall be held and all persons whose names appear on the assessment rolls of the City as owners of property within three hundred (300') feet of the property sought to be used as an encampment shall be notified by mail of the date and place of such hearing.
b. 
Record of Guests. Every encampment shall maintain a manager in charge thereof. Such manager shall require all tourists or other persons using such encampment to register in a book kept for the purpose. He shall also keep a record of the name, address and car license number of each occupant of such encampment, which record shall at all times be open to inspection by the Police Department.
c. 
Limitation on Residence. It shall be unlawful for any person, except the manager and his bona fide employees, to remain or live in any encampment for more than fifteen (15) days in any three (3) month period, and it shall be unlawful for any encampment permittee or his agent to permit any person to remain in the encampment under the control of such permittee or his agent longer than the period herein allowed.
d. 
Plumbing and Sanitary Requirements. Every encampment maintaining permanent structures for living quarters shall provide each unit so improved with at least one (1) toilet, one (1) bathtub or shower, one (1) wash basin and one (1) kitchen sink.
All encampment units which are not improved with permanent structures for living quarters shall be provided with a minimum, for each sex, of one (1) toilet and one (1) bathtub or shower for every three (3) units or fraction thereof. In addition thereto, there shall be provided one (1) urinal for every three units. Such toilets and urinals shall not be more than two hundred (200') feet from the unit served by them. A two (2) compartment laundry tub, a slop sink and a wash basin, with running water shall be provided for every five (5) units or fraction thereof.
No dry or chemical closets shall be installed or used in any encampments within the City and all such closets shall be sealed while inside the City limits. A sufficient number of tightly-covered metal garbage cans shall be provided in all encampments.
e. 
Sanitation Generally. Every encampment and all structures therein shall be constructed and maintained at all times in a thoroughly sanitary condition.
f. 
Lights. Every encampment shall be provided with adequate means of lighting the same at night, and all toilets and baths shall be provided with lights which shall be kept lighted from one-half (1/2) hour after sunset until one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise.
g. 
Stoves, Fuel and Fire Extinguishers. All stoves and fuel used in any encampment for cooking or heating purposes shall be of a type approved by the Fire Marshal. There shall at all times be maintained in every encampment at least one (1) approved fire extinguisher for every three (3) units.
h. 
General Plan of Camp Site, Location of Units. Every encampment shall be bordered around the boundary lines by an ornamental tight fence, or closely-grown hedges, not under six (6') feet in height, as approved by the Building Inspector. No gate opening shall be constructed in the fence adjoining any property without the written permission of the owner of such property. All the units shall be grouped in blocks abutting driveways or courts of not less than thirty (30') feet in width, giving easy access to all units. No camping structures shall be located within five (5') feet of the unit side line nor within thirty (30') feet of a City street.