The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Construction trailer
means a modular vehicle used for office purposes and not for living purposes.
HUD-code manufactured home
means a structure constructed on or after June 15, 1976, according to the rules of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on-site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems. The term does not include a recreational vehicle as that term is defined by 24 CFR 3282.8(g).
Installation
means the transporting of manufactured homes or manufactured home components to the place where they will be used by the consumer, the construction of the foundation system, whether temporary or permanent, and the placement and erection of a manufactured home or manufactured home components on the foundation system, and includes supporting, blocking, leveling, securing, anchoring, and proper connection of multiple or expandable sections or components, the installation of air conditioning, and minor adjustments.
Manufactured home park
means any plot of ground upon which facilities are provided for locating six or more manufactured homes to be occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation.
Manufactured home space
means a plot of ground within a manufactured home park designed for the accommodation of one manufactured home.
Manufactured housing and manufactured home
mean a HUD-code manufactured home or a mobile home, and collectively mean and refer to both.
Mobile home
means a structure that was constructed before June 15, 1976, transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or when erected on-site is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems.
Multiple dwelling
means any structure designed and intended to accommodate more than one family, and includes but is not limited to duplex buildings, group houses and apartment buildings.
Natural or artificial barrier
means any embankment, fence, hedge, or other feature that serves to block direct pedestrian access or visibility.
Operator
means the person in charge of operating any manufactured home or recreational vehicle park under either written or verbal lease or any other arrangement whereby he exercises control over the premises.
Owner
means the person in whose name the title to the lot, block, tract, or parcel of land is shown to be.
(1967 Code, sec. 28-1; Ordinance 899, sec. I, adopted 11/17/97; 2008 Code, sec. 46-1)
There are excepted from section 3.10.002 all properties upon which mobile homes are located in the city as of the effective date of the ordinance from which this section is derived.
(Ordinance 899, sec. IV, adopted 11/17/97; 2008 Code, sec. 46-3)
(a) 
HUD-code manufactured homes may be located, maintained and utilized and lived in on a temporary basis, not to exceed a period of 90 days, at any construction site for which a building permit has been obtained in the city.
(b) 
Upon application, the building official may grant permission for location of a HUD-code manufactured home to be located, maintained, utilized and lived in at in a construction site by any person at any place in the city for a period not in excess of 90 days from granting of the initial building permit.
(c) 
A fee in the amount set forth in the fee schedule in appendix A of this code shall be charged to cover the administrative cost of issuance of the permit for temporary location of the HUD-code manufactured home at the construction site.
(d) 
All HUD-code manufactured homes located at construction sites shall be properly connected to electrical facilities, sewer and water facilities in accordance with the requirements of the city building code and technical standards and other applicable standards.
(e) 
Upon application by any individual holding a building permit, the initial permit may be extended for only one additional 90-day period upon application and payment of an additional fee to the city, as set forth in the fee schedule in appendix A of this code.
(1967 Code, sec. 28-3; 2008 Code, sec. 46-4)