[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the
City of Gloucester City 3-2-1950. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Within the limits of the City of Gloucester City, no person,
firm or corporation shall conduct or carry on the business of the
operation of a trailer camp or campsite or work in, occupy or directly
or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever, utilize any place or premises
in which is conducted or carried on a trailer camp or campsite, unless
and until there shall be granted by the Common Council of the City
of Gloucester City, in accordance with the terms of this ordinance,
and shall be in force and effect, a license to conduct said trailer
camp and campsite for the place and premises in or at which the same
shall be conducted and carried on.
For the purposes of this ordinance, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
Any place where a person is permitted to sleep or dwell other
than in a permanent dwelling.
Includes any vehicle used or constructed to be used as a
conveyance upon public streets, whether self-propelled or otherwise,
and so designed as to permit the occupancy thereof as a dwelling or
sleeping place, and non-self-propelled vehicles of any kind or character
constructed or intended to be moved under fuel power.
Any place where a trailer may be parked for longer than three
hours, other than in a closed building.
Said license shall be applied for by written application filed
with the Common Council. Such application shall set forth the full
name and address of the applicant, the particular kind or character
of business to be carried on or conducted or vehicles parked, the
location or place of the premises in or at which the same is to be
carried on, the total area of the ground space thereof and a diagram
of the same. Said application shall also be accompanied by a deposit
to cover the license fee for the current year in the amount hereinafter
provided, which said license fee, as to the first license granted
for any said place, shall be proportionately prorated for the remainder
of the year.
[Amended 12-2-1982 by Ord. No. 13-1982; 4-6-1995 by Ord. No. 7-1995; 12-3-1998 by Ord. No. 29-1998; 6-17-2010 by Ord. No. O12-2010]
There shall be charged and collected for said license an annual
fee of $500, known as an "annual trailer park license," and the sum
of $125 for the total of 52 weeks of the year for each trailer lot,
whether occupied or vacant, known as a "trailer lot fee." Said annual
trailer park license shall expire on December 31 of each year, and
said fees are hereby expressly declared to be imposed for revenue,
and as to the base amount of $500, this shall be payable in advance
(prior to January 1) for each year; the trailer lot fee of $125 for
each lot shall be paid in quarterly installments of $31.25 each on
the last business day of the following months: March, June, September
and December. Any annual or quarterly fee paid late shall be assessed
a late charge of 5% in addition to the above-stated annual or quarterly
fee. Each licensee shall maintain a camp or park registry and each
quarter submit three copies of the same to the Housing Office, so
far as it pertains to the preceding three months, setting forth the
license number of the trailer; the serial, type and license number
of each automobile; the date of occupancy; whether still occupied
and, if not, the date of vacancy; and the age, name and last permanent
address of the owner of each trailer and automobile and of each occupant
thereof. A copy thereof shall be delivered by the Housing Office to
the Chief of the Police Department. It is further established that
trailer campsites for which the trailer lot fees and quarterly registry
reports have not been submitted shall be presumed, in the absence
of proof to the contrary, to be no longer maintained and available
by the operator for occupancy as a trailer campsite and shall not
longer be considered for permit by the governing body of Gloucester
City. A report of any and all sums which may be due to the city as
herein provided shall be generated by the Housing Office to the Chief
of Police for enforcement. No such license shall be transferable without
the permission of the Mayor and Common Council.
Every such place, except a trailer camp used exclusively for
the parking of trailers for the conveyance of goods, shall be equipped
with an adequate supply of pure drinking water. Said water supply
shall be obtained from faucets only, conveniently located in said
campgrounds, and no dipping vessels or common cups shall be permitted.
There shall be provided in every existing campground, sanitary
accommodations as follows: for every 25 trailers, camp cars or numerical
fraction thereof, one women's toilet and one men's toilet
and one slop sink in men's toilet and slop sink in women's
toilet, all properly connected with adequate cesspools or septic tanks.
There shall be provided in every campground heretofore or hereafter
established, such number of tight receptacles with close-fitting metal
covers for garbage, refuse, ashes and rubbish as may be deemed necessary
by the Board of Health, and such garbage receptacles shall be at all
times maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
It shall be unlawful to permit any waste water or material from
sinks, baths, showers or other plumbing fixtures in camp cars and/or
trailers to be deposited upon the surface of the ground, and all such
fixtures, when in use, must be connected to the camp disposal system
or the drainage therefrom must be disposed of in a manner satisfactory
to the Board of Health.[2]
Every campground heretofore or hereafter established shall be
provided with means of lighting the same at night, and all public
water closets and bath units shall be provided with sufficient lighting
facilities which shall be kept lighted during the time from 1/2 hour
after sunset until 1/2 hour before sunrise.
Any water faucet, toilet, garbage receptacles or other equipment
required by the provisions of this ordinance in campgrounds, or which
may hereafter be required by any rules and regulations of the Board
of Health pertaining to campgrounds, shall not be construed to mean
water faucets, toilets, garbage receptacles or other equipment now
or hereafter located in or adjacent to campgrounds and which may already
or hereafter be required under provisions of other laws or ordinances.
Every campground hereafter established shall provide for a minimum
of 600 square feet of space per trailer or camp car. Camp cars and/or
trailers shall be arranged in rows abutting or facing on a driveway
or clear, unoccupied space not less than 20 feet in width, which space
shall have unobstructed access to a public street or alley.
Every campground hereafter established shall be located on a
well-drained area, and the premises of every such campground or any
existing campground shall be properly graded and surfaced with at
least 12 inches of soft coal ashes or its equivalent absorbent materials
so as to prevent the accumulation of storm or casual waters.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning
or operating a camp car and/or trailer located in a campground to
remove or cause to have removed the wheels or any similar transporting
devices from said camp car and/or trailer or to otherwise permanently
fix it to the ground in a manner that would prevent the ready removal
of said camp car and/or trailer without first obtaining a permit so
to do from the Building Inspector of the City of Gloucester City.
Any alteration to any camp car and/or trailer as above set forth shall
be construed as removing it from the requirements of this ordinance
and converting it into a dwelling, and it shall thereupon be subject
to the requirements of the Building Code of the City of Gloucester
City and the State Housing Act of New Jersey.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 27, Building Code.
Dogs at no time shall be permitted to run at large in any campground.
No person shall permit any such licensed premises to be used
for immoral purposes or suffer the violation thereon or therein of
any penal law or of any ordinance of the city.
Such licensed place or premises shall at all times comply with
all proper police and fire regulations imposed by the city ordinances.
Said business and the place and premises where conducted shall
be subject to examination and inspection by day or night by the Common
Council or a committee thereof and by the police, fire and health
authorities of the city.
In case of the failure or refusal to comply with any of the
terms or provisions of this ordinance, the Common Council may, after
notice and hearing, refuse or revoke any license applied for or granted
hereunder.
[Amended 12-5-1974[1]]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any term or
provision of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject
to imprisonment in the county jail or in any place provided by the
City of Gloucester City for the detention of prisoners, for a term
not exceeding 90 days, or to a fine not exceeding $500, or both. Any
person so convicted may, in the discretion of the Judge by whom he
was convicted, in default of the payment of any fine, be imprisoned
in the county jail or place of detention provided by the City of Gloucester
City, for any term not exceeding 90 days. There may issue out of the
court of any Judge empowered to impose fines for the violation of
this ordinance, execution against the goods and chattels of any person,
firm or corporation convicted in such court or before such Judge.
Execution shall be levied and enforced in the same manner as are executions
from the Small Cause Court. Each day that a violation of any of the
terms or provisions of this ordinance shall continue shall constitute
a separate offense.
In the event that any section or part of this ordinance shall
be held illegal or unconstitutional, such invalidity shall not be
construed as impairing the force and effect of the remainder of the
ordinance.
All parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are
hereby repealed as to such inconsistent provisions, and this ordinance
shall take effect after publication in the manner provided by law.
