That the following definitions are hereby declared to be used
for this article:
A designated inspection authority of the city, or its authorized
representative.
The City of Onalaska, Texas.
A private drive allowing principal means of access to individual
HUD-code manufactured/mobile home lots or auxiliary buildings.
A minor entrance way off the common access route within the
park, into an off-street parking area serving one or more HUD-code
manufactured/mobile homes.
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 (8) body feet or more in width, forty (40) body feet
or more in length, or, when erected on site is three hundred and twenty
(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
plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems. The term
does not include a recreational vehicle as that term is defined by
24 C.F.R.S 3282.8(9).
A written license issued by the city, permitting a person
to operate and maintain a HUD-code manufactured home park under the
provisions of this article.
A structure that was constructed before June 15, 1976, transportable
in one or more sections, and which is built on a permanent chassis
designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation
when connected to the required utilities, and includes plumbing, heating,
air-conditioning, and electrical systems. The home must display a
red certification tag on each transportable section.
That part of a manufactured home park which has been improved
for the placement of the manufactured home, including all required
appurtenances and having provision for available utility connections.
A HUD-code manufactured home, formerly known as a mobile
home and collectively means and refers to both.
Any lot, block, tract or parcel of contiguous lots, blocks,
tracts or parcels of land, under common ownership, which contains
two (2) or more mobile/manufactured homes or mobile/manufactured home
lots available for lease or rent to the public and for the placement
of mobile homes and/or manufactured homes for occupancy.
Any person who legally resides in the mobile/manufactured
home, travel trailer or motor home.
The person who owns or has charge, care or control of the
manufactured/mobile home park.
A minimum space nine (9) feet in width by eighteen (18) feet
in length, located within the boundary of a HUD-code manufactured
home space, or in common parking and storage area having unobstructed
access to an internal street.
Written permit/certification issued by the city permitting
the construction, alteration or extension of a HUD-code manufactured
home park under the provisions of this article and regulations issued
hereunder.
Any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association
or corporation.
A graphic presentation, drawn to scale in a horizontal plane,
delineating the outlines of the land included in the plan and all
proposed use location accurately dimensioned, the dimensions also
indicating the relation of each use to that adjoining and to the boundary
of the property.
A portable vehicle built on a chassis and designed as a temporary
dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation use and which has been
permanently identified and equipped and identified by the manufacturer
for use on public streets and highways. The term “recreational
vehicle” shall also be deemed to include any other portable
contrivance used or intended to be used generally for living and sleeping
quarters and which may be moved under its own power, towed or transported
by another vehicle.
A connection consisting of pipes, frames and appurtenances
from the drain outlet of a HUD-code manufactured/mobile home to the
inlet of the corresponding sewer service riser pipe of the sewage
system serving the HUD-code manufactured home park.
Concealment from view of the undercarriage on all sides of
a mobile/manufactured home.
A plot of ground within a HUD-code manufactured home park
designated for accommodation of one HUD-code manufactured home, together
with such open space as required by this article. This term shall
also include “lot” and “site.”
(Ordinance 430, sec. 1, adopted 9/13/22)
