[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Freehold 9-13-1971 (§ 7-8 of the Revised General Ordinances), as amended
through Ord. No. O-83-351; amended in its entirety 12-22-2009 by Ord. No. O-09-36. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.
Whenever used in this chapter unless a different
meaning appears from the context, the terminology of the following
definitions shall control:
A unit of housing which:
Consists of one or more transportable sections which are substantially
constructed off site and, if more than one section, are joined together
on site;
Is built on a permanent chassis;
Is designed to be used, when connected to utilities, as a dwelling
on a permanent or nonpermanent foundation; and
Is manufactured in accordance with the standards promulgated
for a manufactured home by the secretary pursuant to the "National
Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974,"
Public Law 93-383 (42 U.S.C. § 5401 et seq.) and the standards
promulgated for a manufactured or mobile home by the Commissioner
of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs pursuant to the
“State Uniform Construction Code Act," P.L. 1975, c. 217 (N.J.S.A.
52:27D-119 et seq.);
Under no circumstances shall a mobile/manufactured home as used
in this chapter be construed to include any motor vehicle with sleeping
or living quarters which has any of the controls or appurtenances
of propulsion contained within it.
That part of a manufactured/mobile home plot which has been
reserved exclusively for the placement of a manufactured/mobile home.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
Any lot or parcel of land containing two or more manufactured/mobile
home plots or manufactured/mobile homes and which shall include all
buildings used or intended for use as part of the equipment thereof.
Manufactured/mobile homes located therein shall be occupied and used
solely by and for individuals 52 years of age or over; married couples
at least one of whom is 52 years of age or over; two closely related
persons when both persons are 52 years of age or over; one person
over 18 years of age may reside in the manufactured/mobile home with
an adult person or persons, as permitted above, if the presence of
such person is essential for the physical care or economic support
of the adult person; children 18 years of age or older may reside
with a parent or parents.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
A parcel of land designed to accommodate a manufactured/mobile
home and which includes a manufactured/mobile home and/or a manufactured
home pad.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
That part of a manufactured/mobile home plot or common area
excluding the manufactured/mobile home stand or pad surrounding an
individual stand or pad surrounding an individual pad with applicable
separation distances as required by this chapter.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
The owner of a manufactured/mobile home park or his designated
agents being administrative officers of the manufactured/mobile home
park.
A building used by the park residents for recreational purposes
and other general purposes common to all residents.
Garbage, rubbish and trade waste, combustible or noncombustible
waste solids.
Any person who rents or leases a manufactured/mobile home
lot or pad from the park management.
A.
Compliance. The provisions of this chapter comprise the minimum standards
with which all manufactured/mobile home parks and the park management
shall comply, as well as with the rules and regulations and policies
or laws administered by the Township or any agency or subdivision
in this state having legal jurisdiction, including N.J.A.C. 5.23-3.19.
B.
Licensing. No person shall construct or operate and maintain a manufactured/mobile home park in the Township unless such person shall first obtain a license for the construction and maintenance and operation thereof from the Township and pay the fees as hereinafter provided. No manufactured/mobile homes shall be installed, operated, maintained or occupied within the Township except upon and within a duly licensed manufactured/mobile home park. All manufactured/mobile home park licenses shall comply with the provisions of § 213-1, definition of "manufactured/mobile home park," as vacancies occur in the park. Any approval of plans and applications for license issued hereunder shall be subject to automatic revocation in the event the applicant to whom the approval is granted shall fail to commence construction of the manufactured/mobile home park for which a license is applied for within six months from the date of the granting of the approval.
C.
Location of park. Manufactured/mobile home parks shall be permitted
solely and exclusively in those zones and locations for which a license
has been granted or renewed; the license shall be issued or refused
issuance on the basis of the criteria of this chapter and the general
welfare. No manufactured/mobile home park shall be located within
5,280 feet or one mile of any boundary of any other manufactured/mobile
home park. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit
manufactured/mobile home licenses in existence prior to September
13, 1971, and newly issued licenses from being held under common ownership
which may cause the tracts of land under those licenses to abut.
D.
Number of licenses. Only one license for the construction and maintenance
and operation of a manufactured/mobile home park shall be issued for
each 35,000 residents of the Township as determined by the last federal
census available at the time of application for such licenses. This
provision shall not affect licenses already in existence and having
been issued. There shall be no more than 400 manufactured/mobile home
lots or pads in any manufactured/mobile home park per license; and
no more than 100 manufactured/mobile home lots or pads shall be permitted
during the first year of operation thereof and no more than 100 additional
lots or pads shall be installed in any manufactured/mobile home park
in any one year thereafter.
E.
Duration of licenses. Licenses or permits to maintain and operate
a manufactured/mobile home park pursuant to this chapter shall be
issued annually and shall expire on December 31 of each year.
A.
Organization. The manufactured/mobile home parks site planning and
improvements shall provide facilities appropriate to the needs of
the residents for safe, healthful and comfortable living areas. The
manufactured/mobile home parks site including manufactured/mobile
home stands, patios, buildings and all site improvements shall be
harmoniously and efficiently organized in relation to topography,
the shape of the plot and the position of buildings and common facilities
and with full regard to the use and public safety and appearance.
B.
Plot or pad layout and occupancy. Each manufactured/mobile home plot
or pad shall be clearly identified by number. Each manufactured/mobile
home plot and pad shall be adequate to accommodate the manufactured/mobile
home occupying the same. The number of manufactured/mobile homes permitted
in a manufactured/mobile home park shall not exceed the number of
manufactured/mobile home plots. Nothing contained in these regulations
shall be construed as prohibiting the maintenance of a retail manufactured/mobile
home sales agency within a manufactured/mobile home park or the sale
of a manufactured/mobile home whether occupied or unoccupied which
is located on a manufactured/mobile home plot or pad and connected
to pertinent utilities.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
C.
Manufactured/mobile homes per acre. The maximum number of manufactured/mobile
homes permitted per acre shall be four.
D.
Minimum size. The minimum size for a manufactured/mobile home park
shall be 55 acres, which shall also be the minimum size of any additions
to an existing manufactured/mobile home park.
E.
Manufactured/mobile home separations/setbacks. There shall be a separation
of at least 15 feet end to end and otherwise at least 20 feet between
each manufactured/mobile home in a manufactured/mobile home park and
every other manufactured/mobile home in the manufactured/mobile home
park. These distances shall be measured from the closest corner/exterior
wall of the adjacent home. No manufactured/mobile home pad shall be
closer than 20 feet from any outbound property line or any building
structure that is not a manufactured/mobile home and no closer than
14 feet from the curbline of any private street.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
F.
Variation continuance. Except as otherwise provided herein, the location
of any manufactured/mobile home at the date of adoption of this chapter
may be continued, although such location does not conform to the regulations
specified by this chapter for the zone in which such land or building
is located. No nonconforming separation or setback between manufactured/mobile
homes shall be further reduced in size. No nonconforming manufactured/mobile
home shall be enlarged, extended, or increased, unless such enlargement,
extension or increase does not exacerbate any existing nonconformity,
nor create any new nonconformity. For new manufactured homes replacing
existing manufactured homes, regardless of the separation distances
referred to above, the replacement home may be installed on the existing
footprint of any existing manufactured home and be larger than the
existing mobile home in any direction which does not increase any
nonconformity.
[Added 12-20-2022 by Ord.
No. O-22-24][1]
G.
Roads, sidewalks and drains. Streets shall be provided on the site where necessary to furnish principal traffic ways for convenient access to manufactured/mobile home plots and other important facilities on the streets. The streets shall be retained as private streets on the property and shall be a minimum paved width of 30 feet in width from curb to curb. No manufactured/mobile home shall be occupied prior to the completion of the access streets thereto and that portion of the street sufficient to cover the frontage of the manufactured/mobile home plot. The park management shall maintain the streets in the manufactured/mobile home park in order to provide a safe and adequate means of transportation throughout the manufactured/mobile home park for its inhabitants and their guests. Street repairs, sweeping and snowplowing, as needed from time to time, shall be provided by the park management. All roads in the manufactured/mobile home park shall be continuous except that closed ends of dead-end streets shall be provided with vehicular turning space as provided for in Chapter 190, Land Use. All roads, sidewalks and storm sewer drains shall be installed to comply with the provisions of the Chapter 190, Land Use, except that access roads which lead to a public highway or street shall be at least 40 feet wide from curb to curb. A concrete sidewalk of standard type construction shall be constructed along both sides of each roadway or street in the manufactured/mobile home park, and the sidewalks shall also be constructed from the roadway into the manufactured/mobile home park space plot or pad so as to provide access thereto. The sidewalks shall be a minimum of four feet in width and conform to the requirement of the Americans with Disabilities Act design standards.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
H.
Parking. There shall be no parking permitted on any of the interior
streets of the manufactured/mobile home park. At least two car parking
spaces for each manufactured/mobile home shall be provided. Parking
spaces shall be provided either in convenient bays or other area upon
the manufactured/mobile home plot or pad.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
I.
Recreation facilities. A recreation area shall be provided for each
manufactured/mobile home park in the amount of 15% of the full area
held under each license. Such space shall be in usable condition for
active recreation which may include but not necessarily be limited
to basketball, swimming, tennis and handball and which shall be free
of traffic hazards. A minimum of 1,400 square feet of recreation space
in a building in a manufactured/mobile home park shall be provided
exclusive of rest rooms and storage facilities. Prior to approving
any manufactured/mobile home park, the Township Committee shall receive
a report on the adequacy of the indoor and outdoor recreation facilities
from the Township Recreation Commission.
J.
Streetlights. Streetlights shall be installed at every intersection
and for every 300 feet along interior streets. The lights shall be
of the mercury vapor lamp type and shall be illuminated from 1/2 hour
after sunset until 1/2 hour before sunrise. The applicant shall have
the option under this chapter of illuminating the manufactured/mobile
home park with gas or electric lamps in a colonial style. If the option
is exercised, however, the gas lamps shall be installed at every intersection
and at intervals of 60 feet along both sides of all interior streets.
K.
Buffer strips. A buffer strip shall be maintained along all exterior property lines of the manufactured/mobile home park whether they be front lines, side lines or rear lines. Such buffer strips shall be at least 50 feet in width and shall be screened when necessary, according to the provisions of Chapter 190, Land Use.
L.
Service areas. Closed storage areas and areas where trash and garbage
are stored shall be screened with a six-foot-high heavy timber or
masonry enclosure.
M.
Subfloor storage. No gasoline and such similar flammable liquids
or other types of storage shall be stored underneath a manufactured/mobile
home.
N.
Patios/decks. Patios and decks shall not extend more than 10 feet
from the permitted pad site of the manufactured/mobile home.
[Amended 12-20-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-24]
O.
Conformance with state and federal standards. All manufactured/mobile
homes shall conform with the New Jersey Manufactured Home Subcode,
N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.19, and with the Federal Manufactured Home Construction
and Safety Standards, as set forth in Part 3280 of Title 24 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, including all subsequent revisions and
amendments thereto, which may be obtained from the Superintendent
of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20420.
P.
Sheds. A single shed shall be permitted to be located on each manufactured/mobile
home plot. No shed shall be larger than 100 square feet. Any shed
must be located at least 10 feet from any structure located on any
adjoining mobile home lot.
[Added 12-20-2022 by Ord.
No. O-22-24]
Q.
Essential utilities. Essential utilities are a permitted accessory
use.
[Added 12-20-2022 by Ord.
No. O-22-24]
R.
Carports. Carports are prohibited.
[Added 12-20-2022 by Ord.
No. O-22-24]
S.
Residential standby generators. Standby generators, which are permitted
by management and are intended to be permanently installed and connected
to the building's electrical systems in order to provide backup
power in the event of power outages, shall be a permitted accessory
use subject to the following:
[Added 12-20-2022 by Ord.
No. O-22-24]
(1)
A single standby generator will be permitted on any manufactured/mobile
home plot only where permitted by management.
(2)
A standby generator is only permitted in the side or rear yard of
the plot.
(3)
The standby generator shall be located at least 10 feet from any
structure located on any adjacent manufactured/mobile home lot. The
standby generator shall be located away from the principal manufactured/mobile
home it is accessory to in accordance with its manufacturer's
installation instructions or the building codes adopted by the State
of New Jersey, whichever is more stringent.
(4)
The standby generator shall be placed so as to minimize the visual
impact on adjacent properties with the use of appropriate sound-attenuating
architectural materials and landscape screening.
(5)
The standby generator shall only be used during electrical power
outages and as required by the manufacturer for maintenance purposes.
Maintenance operation shall only take place during daylight hours
between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., not to exceed once
a week.
(6)
An applicant for an emergency standby generator must file an application
with the Construction Department prior to installation and receive
permits as necessary before any work can be commenced.
A.
State standards. All manufactured/mobile home parks located within the Township shall conform to the State Sanitary Code and N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.19 requirements except when Chapter 190, Land Use, or this chapter have requirements exceeding those requirements, in which event Chapter 190 or this chapter shall have preeminence.
B.
Water and sewer. The licensee shall be required to provide a central
source of water and treatment of sewage, and all manufactured/mobile
homes shall be connected thereto. The foregoing utilities shall be
approved by the State Department of Health in accordance with the
statutes made and provided. The licensee shall be required to connect
with the nearest water utility and to pay the cost of such connection.
If the nearest water utility should be the Township, the licensee
shall pay a bulk rate for service with a minimum of one meter per
license. The licensee agrees that at such times as a central sewage
treatment plant is available from the Township that connection shall
be made thereto.
A.
Fees. The annual license fee based upon anticipated expenses to be incurred by the Township in providing services to the park for each manufactured/mobile home park with not more than 50 manufactured/mobile home lots or pads shall be as provided in Chapter 150, Fees. For each manufactured/mobile home park exceeding 50 manufactured/mobile home lots or pads, the license fee shall be as provided in Chapter 150, Fees, plus an additional sum per month for each manufactured/mobile home registered in the manufactured/mobile home park during such month in excess of 50 lots or pads. A calendar month is hereby defined as any continuous thirty-day period of occupancy. The aforesaid fee shall accompany the application for the license.
B.
Time of payment.
(1)
The annual license fee is payable within 30 days starting from September
13, 1971, and on or before January 1 of each year thereafter. If such
amount aforesaid remains unpaid on the date or dates set forth above,
the same shall be delinquent and shall be subject to a penalty equal
to 10% of the amount of the delinquent payment.
(2)
In addition to the annual license fee as set forth above, the licensee shall pay the sum provided for in Chapter 150, Fees, for each manufactured/mobile home lot or pad occupied by any manufactured/mobile home which is part of the license fee.
(3)
Every person holding a license for the operation of a manufactured/mobile
home park shall pay the fee provided above monthly on or before the
10th day of the next succeeding month, and if not paid at the end
of the 10th day the payment shall become delinquent and shall be subject
to a penalty equal to 10% of the amount of the delinquent payment.
C.
Annual reports. Every person holding a license for the operation
of a manufactured/mobile home park shall submit the form signed and
sworn by the licensee or by his duly authorized agent annually in
conjunction with the annual license fee specified in Subsection B-1
above. Copies of the annual report form shall be filed with and be
made available by the Township Clerk and shall contain spaces for
the following information:
(1)
Name and address of licensee and address of manufactured/mobile home
park.
(2)
Month and year for which the report is made.
(3)
Total number of manufactured/mobile homes registered at the manufactured/mobile
home park.
(4)
The number of lots or pads occupied by the manufactured/mobile homes.
(5)
Such other information as the Township Committee may from time to
time require.
D.
No violation. No license shall be issued until the Board of Health
officer and the Construction Official shall have certified that they
know of no violation of any law, regulation or ordinance applicable
to a manufactured/mobile home or a manufactured/mobile home park.
A.
Procedure. Upon payment of an application fee as provided in Chapter 150, Fees, licenses for the construction and maintenance and operation of a manufactured/mobile home park in accordance with the application and related documents and as required by this chapter shall be issued upon proper application to the Planning Board and to the Township Committee after consultation by the municipal agencies and officers hereinafter stated and public hearing if it shall appear that the proposed manufactured/mobile home park conforms to this chapter and the design standards herein set forth and upon payment of the fees herein required, provided that the controlling determination for issuance shall be the public welfare and general best interest of the Township and not the timeliness of an application. Once all requirements as set forth in this chapter are complied with, the Township Committee may also consider:
B.
Application.
(1)
Application for a license to construct or operate and maintain a
manufactured/mobile home park shall be made by filing an application
with the Planning Board of the Township. The applicant shall submit
with such application six copies of a site plan which shall be an
accurate plot plan drawn to a scale of not less than one inch equals
100 feet prepared by a licensed engineer of the State of New Jersey
and showing the following information as a minimum:
(a)
The lot and block number, exact acreage and exact dimensions
of the property to be built upon.
(b)
Locations and layout of all existing structures, buildings and
roadways on the site and on adjacent properties, but only if the buildings
or roadways are within 200 feet of the site or are covered by another
manufactured/mobile home license held by the same applicant.
(c)
The size, shape and layout of all proposed buildings, structures,
roadways, walkways, parking areas, loading areas, buffer strips, outdoor
lighting fixtures, fences, signs and landscaping.
(d)
The existing and proposed grading of the site shown by contour
lines having a vertical interval of two feet for areas having slopes
of 10% or less and five feet for areas having slopes greater than
10%.
(e)
Existing and proposed natural or artificial drainage facilities
for the disposal of surface stormwater runoff.
(f)
Existing or proposed facilities for sewage disposal showing
the location of proposed facilities or the point of connection with
an existing system.
(g)
Existing or proposed facilities for the supply of water showing
the location of wells or the point of connection of wells or the point
of connection with an existing public water supply.
(2)
No application for a license hereunder shall be considered by the Planning Board unless and until the applicant therefor shall present satisfactory proof of ability to comply with § 213-4, which consists of an unequivocal agreement between the applicant and the principals of a publicly approved water or sewer company.
C.
Referral. Upon receipt of an application for a manufactured/mobile
home park, the Planning Board shall forward copies of the proposal
to the Township Engineer, the Construction Official, the Township
Board of Health, the Monmouth County Planning Board and the Township
Shade Tree Commission for their consideration. The Planning Board
shall not act in regard to the application until the receipt of reports
from the aforesaid agencies or individuals or unless a thirty-day
period has elapsed after the forwarding of the applications to the
agencies and no report in writing has been received. In the latter
event, it shall be deemed that such person or agency has approved
the proposal.
D.
Notice. Upon passage of the thirty-day period referred to above,
the Planning Board shall establish a date for a public hearing. Once
a date for the public hearing has been established, the applicant
shall send by certified mail notice of the hearing at least 10 days
prior to the date thereof to all owners of land within 200 feet of
the area covered by the site plan including land across a street or
streets therefrom as the names of such owners appear on the most recent
Township tax record. The notice shall specify the time and place of
the hearing, give a brief description of the proposed manufactured/mobile
home park and state that a copy of the site plan thereof has been
filed with the Planning Board and is available in the office of the
Township Clerk for public inspection. The Secretary of the Planning
Board shall also cause notice of the hearing to be published in the
official newspaper at least 10 days prior to the hearing. The applicant
shall submit an affidavit prior to the hearing stating that he has
notified all property owners within 200 feet, including owners of
property directly across the street or streets and the property involved.
The applicant shall also forward copies of the notice to the governing
body of every municipality any part of the boundary of which lies
within a distance of 1,000 feet from any part of a manufactured/mobile
home park.
E.
Review by Planning Board. The Planning Board shall review the application
and the site plan for its overall conformity to the Master Plan of
the Township and for its adequacy in providing for good site design,
particularly such items as ingress and egress, vehicular and pedestrian
circulation, location and orientation of buildings, landscaping and
buffer planting, parking areas and other planning considerations.
The Planning Board shall consider in its review the reports of the
other persons and agencies referred to hereinabove and particularly
those pertaining to the adequacy of proposed drainage facilities,
water supply and sewage facilities, paving requirements and any other
engineering requirements.
F.
Approval of plan and modification of manufactured/mobile home pads.
(1)
The Planning Board shall approve or disapprove the proposed site
plan and application with respect to adequacy of planning standards
for the site. Its approval or reason for disapproval shall be clearly
stated in a written report from the Planning Board to the applicant
and to the Township Committee. If the application and site plan are
approved by the Planning Board, it shall be referred to the Township
Committee for issuance of a license; the Township Committee shall
offer those parties having an interest in the application to speak
at a public hearing called for that purpose. Issuance of the license
will be based upon the standards set forth in this chapter and upon
those considerations provided for in this chapter. Issuance or denial
shall be by formal action of the Township Committee at a public meeting
after interested parties shall be given an opportunity to be heard.
(2)
Any installation or modification of an individual manufactured/mobile
home site shall be approved by the Construction Official for conformance
with the design standards within this chapter and with the New Jersey
Manufactured Home Subcode, N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.19, and with the Federal
Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards, as set forth
in Part 3280 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as may
be amended.
G.
Other requirements.
(1)
The applicant shall provide the Township with a written agreement
that he will permit entry to the manufactured/mobile home park at
any time during the day or night of any authorized state, county or
Township police officer or other law enforcement official and by the
Board of Health officer, Construction Official, Zoning Officer or
other official of the Township or any agent designated by resolution
of the Township Committee.
(2)
In the event the applicant is not the owner of the premises, the
application shall so state and the person shall deposit with the Clerk
in addition to the fees otherwise required the sum of $1,000 to be
held by the Clerk to insure compliance with the terms of this chapter
in regard to license fees which amount shall be returned to the licensee
upon expiration of the license less such sums as may be found under
terms of this chapter.
(3)
Licenses issued under the terms of this chapter convey no right to
erect any building, to do any plumbing, electrical or other work ordinarily
requiring separate and different municipal or governmental permits.
(4)
Upon the issuance of a license, the applicant shall post with the
Clerk a cash deposit of $5,000 per license. This deposit shall guarantee
the collection of any fine, forfeiture or fee, including legal costs
upon or levied against the licensee for violations of this chapter,
and is made for the use and benefit of the Township. The deposit shall
be placed in an interest-bearing account by the Treasurer, who shall
compute the interest thereon annually and remit same to the licensee.
If any fine, forfeiture or fee should remain delinquent for a period
of six months, the deposit referred to herein may be used to satisfy
same.
H.
Renewal of licenses. Licenses for the renewal of manufactured/mobile home park licenses previously issued to an applicant shall be issued upon consultation by the municipal agencies required in the case of original applications. Such license shall be issued if it shall appear that the manufactured/mobile home park conforms to this chapter in all respects and the design standards herein set forth upon payment of the fees herein required. Manufactured/mobile home parks predating the existence of this chapter shall be deemed nonconforming except for the provisions of § 213-1, the definition of "manufactured/mobile home park," which shall be complied with as vacancies occur. Application for a renewal license shall be made by the filing of four copies of a written application signed by the person seeking a renewal license, which shall contain the following information and be accompanied by the following statements, data and maps:
(1)
The application shall set forth any change in ownership or interest
in the property by the person making the application.
(2)
The application shall set forth any changes in the manufactured/mobile
home park with respect to matters set forth in the prior application
and shall contain all data required with respect to an original application
concerning any such changes unless such changes have been previously
approved.
I.
Approval to operate. Manufactured/mobile home parks shall not be
operated by any person until the Township Committee has given formal
approval therefor by issuance of an appropriate license. The license
shall be displayed in a conspicuous place on the premises where it
can be easily observed. No persons shall operate a manufactured/mobile
home park whose license therefor is suspended.
J.
Temporary permits. The Township Committee may issue temporary permits
for the operation of manufactured/mobile home parks whenever in its
judgment such temporary permits are necessary and proper pending formal
and final action upon an application. The permits may be issued for
such periods and upon such terms as the Township Committee may deem
appropriate pending final approval.
K.
Inspection. Manufactured/mobile home park buildings and premises
shall be subject to inspection by the Township Committee or its duly
authorized representative.
L.
Consult or seal opinion. The Township Committee may consult or seal
the opinion of any other Township board, agency or official when considering
the issuance or renewal of a license.
A.
Park office. In any manufactured/mobile home park there shall be
an office established which may be located either in a manufactured/mobile
home or in a permanent building and which shall be the office of the
person in active charge of the manufactured/mobile home park. A copy
of the park license and a copy of this chapter shall be conspicuously
posted therein, and the park register as hereafter referred to in
this chapter shall be at all times kept in that office.
B.
Park register. Each licensee shall maintain a park register which shall be kept up to date with the following information: the name of each owner of each manufactured/mobile home or the tenant thereof, the name of the manufacturer, the model and the serial and /or registration number of each manufactured/mobile home, the date of arrival of each manufactured/mobile home and the date of departure of each manufactured/mobile home. Likewise, a daily and monthly total of the total number of manufactured/mobile home lots or pads occupied shall be placed in the register. A copy of the register shall be delivered to the Clerk of the Township by the 10th day of the month following the end of the reporting required by § 213-5.
C.
Inspection of register. The manufactured/mobile home park owner shall
keep the register available for inspection by Township officials at
all times. The register shall not be destroyed for a period of three
years following the date of registration.
A.
Unlawful parking. It shall be unlawful within the limits of the Township
to park any manufactured/mobile home on any street, alley or highway
or other public place or upon any tract of land owned by any person,
occupied or unoccupied, within the Township except as provided within
this chapter.
B.
Emergencies. Emergency or temporary stopping of a manufactured/mobile
home is permitted on any street, alley or highway for not longer than
24 hours subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations
or limitations imposed by the traffic and parking regulations or ordinances
for that street, alley or highway.
C.
Private dwellings.
(1)
No person shall park or occupy any manufactured/mobile home on the
premises of any occupied dwelling which is situated outside an improved
manufactured/mobile home park. If and in the event an occupied dwelling
shall become temporarily unfit for occupancy because of a fire or
such other disaster, the owner may apply to the Township Committee
for permission to place a manufactured/mobile home upon the same tract
of land for a period not to exceed six months. Such manufactured/mobile
home shall be used as a residence for the dwelling's former occupants
and only while the dwelling is being reconstructed and/or repaired.
The Township Committee may, at its discretion, grant a three-month
extension on the original permission. Any permission given by the
Township Committee shall be during reconstruction or repair or during
the time that such is being conducted, not contemporaneous with new
or original construction.
(2)
The parking of one unoccupied manufactured/mobile home in any accessory private garage, building or any rear yard is permitted, provided that no living quarters shall be maintained or any business practiced in such manufactured/mobile home and provided further that the parking shall not be in violation of Chapter 190, Land Use.
D.
Construction sites. A manufactured/mobile home may be utilized at
a construction site for temporary office and storage, provided that
a permit is obtained from the Zoning Officer prior to movement of
the manufactured/mobile home onto the site and a manufactured/mobile
home is removed from the site within 30 days after the issuance of
the final certificate of occupancy.
No owner or person in charge of any dog, cat or other pet shall
permit it to run at large within the limits of any manufactured/mobile
home park.
Manufactured/mobile home parks shall be maintained, by the park owners and park tenants, as applicable, in accordance with Chapter 245, Property Maintenance.
Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall upon conviction be subject to penalties as provided in Chapter 1, Article II, General Penalty. In the event of such conviction, the license of the licensee may be revoked and no new license for the operation and maintenance of the manufactured/mobile home park shall be issued for two months. Each twenty-four-hour period during which a violation continues shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.
