The purpose and intent of this article is to:
(1) 
Provide certain minimum standards, provisions, and requirements for safe, sanitary, and suitable methods of construction and operation of house trailer parks and mobile home parks and house trailers and mobile homes.
(2) 
Assure that house trailers and mobile homes and house trailer parks and mobile home parks shall not become a menace to public health, morals, safety or welfare.
(Ordinance adopted 11/23/70, art. 1)
HUD-code manufactured home.
A structure, constructed on or after June 15, 1976, meeting the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act as administered by 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 forty 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.
Natural or artificial barrier.
Any river, pond, canal, railroad, levee, embankment, fence or hedge.
Park.
Mobile home and/or travel trailer park.
Person.
Any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association or corporation.
Mobile home or travel trailer.
Any vehicle or similar portable structure having no original foundation other than wheels, jacks, blocks or skirting, and so designed or constructed as to permit occupancy for dwelling for sleeping purposes. Provided, however, that for purposes of determining the distances hereinafter specified in section 3.06.091(b) of this article, the term “mobile home and travel trailer” shall include any portable, prefabricated, temporary room, commonly called “cabans” that is attached to such “mobile home.”
Independent mobile home or travel trailer.
A mobile home or travel trailer which has a flush toilet and a bath or shower.
Dependent mobile home or travel trailer.
A mobile home or travel trailer which does not have a flush toilet and bath or shower.
Mobile home and/or travel trailer park.
Any plot of ground upon which one or more mobile homes or travel trailers, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodations.
Mobile home and/or travel trailer lot.
A plot of ground within a mobile home and/or travel trailer park designed for the accommodation of one mobile home or travel trailer, with or without pay.
(Ordinance adopting Code; Ordinance adopted 11/23/70, art. 2)
Any person, firm or corporation violating this article or any portion thereof shall upon conviction be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), and each day that such violation continues shall be considered a separate offense and punishable accordingly.
(Ordinance adopted 11/23/70, art. 12)
This article shall be applicable to all of the city, including all subdivisions within the city. Save and except the following portions of the city which are excluded from this article and to which areas this article is not in any way applicable. The said sections being as follows:
(1) 
All of that section of the city, lying north of Moss Avenue (15th St.) and east of the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way.
(2) 
All of that section of the city, lying northwest of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad right-of-way and southwest of Milam Street in the city.
(Ordinance adopted 11/23/70, art. 14)
(a) 
Any mobile home or travel trailer now existing and being located and situated upon any parcel of land within the city limits shall immediately upon being moved, become subject to the terms and conditions of this article. No other mobile home or travel trailer shall be placed on such lots, parks, plat or parcel of real property unless the terms and conditions of this article are fully complied with.
(b) 
Any mobile home or travel trailer in existence and being located and situated upon any parcel, lot or tract of land within the city limits, as of November 23, 1973, or any date thereafter, may be replaced by a new or better travel trailer or mobile home at the desire of the owners of the said lot, without complying with section 3.06.032 of this article, provided that such replacement is made within 30 days from the date the existing travel trailer or mobile home is removed and provided that the replacement is a new or better unit so as not to depreciate the value of the lot or surrounding property.
(Ordinance adopted 11/23/70, art. 10; Ordinance adopted 10/1/76)
This article shall not in any way apply to boats, trailers, or travel trailers under thirty feet (30') in length used by the owner exclusively for the purpose of pleasure and not occupied or slept in when located within the city limits.
(Ordinance adopted 11/23/70, art. 11)