For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and phrases are defined as follows, unless it shall be apparent from the content that they have a different meaning:
Words used in the singular include the plural, and the plural the singular. Words used in the present tense include the future;
"Approved"
when used in connection with any material, appliance or construction, means meeting the requirements and approval of the building department of the city;
"Mobilehome park" and "trailer park"
means any lot or parcel of land designed for, used or intended to be used for the parking of two or more trailers, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodations. Wherever the term "mobilehome park" is used in this title, it shall also mean "trailer park;"
"Awning"
means any shade structure of approved material installed, erected or used adjoining or adjacent to a trailer coach;
"Building,"
as used in this chapter, means public toilets, public baths, laundry rooms or other structures and includes a compartment containing a toilet or bath, or both, constructed for the exclusive use of an occupant of a trailer site;
"Cabana"
means any portable, demountable or permanent cabin, small house, room, enclosure or other building erected, constructed or placed on any trailer site within six feet of any mobilehome or trailer coach on the same site in a mobilehome park or trailer park. "Cabana" does not include awning;
"Cabana—permanent"
means any cabana which is designed so as to be not readily disassembled, moved and reassembled;
"Cabana—portable or demountable"
means any prefabricated cabana which is designed to be readily assembled and disassembled and adapted to ready transportation from place to place;
"Carport"
means an awning or shade structure for an automobile located within six feet of a mobilehome or trailer coach; "Dependent mobilehome or trailer coach," as used in this chapter, means one not equipped with a toilet for sewage disposal;
"Dependent mobilehome or trailer coach,"
as used in this chapter, means one not equipped with a toilet for sewage disposal;
"Independent mobilehome or trailer coach,"
as used in this chapter, means one equipped with a toilet for sewage disposal;
"Liquefied petroleum gas"
means petroleum hydrocarbons or mixtures thereof, in liquid or gaseous state, having a vapor pressure in excess of twenty-six pounds per square inch at a temperature of one hundred degrees Fahrenheit. Whenever the symbol "LPG" is used, it shall mean liquefied petroleum gas;
"Mobilehome,"
as used in this title, means any camp car, trailer or other vehicle, with or without motive power, designed and constructed to travel on the public thoroughfares at the maximum allowable speed limit and licensed in accordance with the provisions of the California motor vehicle code, and designed or used for human habitation. "Mobilehome" also means "trailer coach;"
"Mobilehome site,"
as used in this chapter, means that portion of a mobilehome park designated and designed for the occupancy of a mobilehome or trailer coach and includes any area that is set aside or used for automobile parking, storage, awning, cabana or other structure;
"Occupied area"
means the total area of a trailer site that is occupied by any building, cabana, mobilehome, trailer coach, awning, storage cabinet or structure;
"Ramada"
means any roof, or shade structure installed, erected or used above a mobilehome or a trailer coach and site, or any portion thereof;
"Windbreak"
means any protective fence, wall, structure or shelter from the wind and which exceeds forty-two inches in height, but not to exceed six feet in height;
"Window awning"
means any awning which does project more than thirty inches from the body of the mobilehome or trailer coach and which does not extend more than six inches on either side of the window it is designed to serve;
In a mobilehome park or trailer park, "nuisance" includes any of the following:
(1)
Any public nuisance known at common law or in equity jurisprudence;
(2)
Whatever is dangerous to human life or is detriment to health, or which creates a fire hazard;
(3)
Overcrowding of any room with occupants;
(4)
Insufficient ventilation or illumination of any room;
(5)
Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing facilities or
(6)
Whatever renders air, food or drink unwholesome or detrimental to the health of human beings.
(Prior code § 20.2)
It shall be the duty of the building department to enforce all of the provisions of this title; the fire department to enforce those provisions which relate to fire safety; the health department to enforce those provisions which relate to health and sanitation, and for the purpose of securing enforcement thereof, the building official, chief of the fire department and the health officer, or any of their respective duly authorized representatives, are hereby empowered to enter private property to determine if a mobilehome park exists and are further empowered to enter upon the premises of any mobilehome park or trailer park now operating or which may hereafter be operated within the city to inspect the same and all accommodations connected therewith.
(Prior code § 20.3)
Mobilehome parks or trailer parks may be located, established and maintained within the city only in accordance with the provisions of Title 21.
(Prior code § 20.4)
All permits as required in this title for construction or reconstruction of a mobilehome park or trailer park shall automatically expire within three months from the date of the issuance thereof unless the construction or reconstruction has been started within such period.
(Prior code § 20.5)
Upon the completion of any mobilehome park or trailer park, and prior to the use thereof, the owner or operator of such mobilehome park or trailer park shall make application to the city clerk for a permit to occupy or use the mobilehome park or trailer park.
The building department shall thereupon make a final inspection of the mobilehome park or trailer park referred to in such application, and if it is found to be in conformity with the requirements of this title and all other ordinances in the city, and the laws of the state, the department shall forward to the applicant a written permit to operate.
(Prior code § 20.6)
Before issuing a renewal of any permit or license, the building department shall make a reinspection of the buildings, structures, electrical equipment and plumbing of any mobilehome park and no such renewal shall be issued by the license collector unless and until any defect or violation of law found therein shall have been corrected.
(Prior code § 20.7)
It is unlawful for any person in a mobilehome park or trailer park to use or cause or permit to be used for occupancy:
(1) 
Any mobilehome or trailer coach from which any tire or wheel has been removed, except for the purpose of making temporary repairs or placing it in dead storage;
(2) 
Any mobilehome or trailer coach to which is attached any rigid water, gas or sewer pipes; provided, however, that the metal tubing not to exceed three quarters inch in diameter may be used for water or gas;
(3) 
Any mobilehome or trailer coach which is permanently attached with underpinning or foundation to the ground;
(4) 
Any mobilehome or trailer coach which does not conform to the requirements of the California state motor vehicle code governing the use of mobilehomes or trailer coaches on public highways;
(5) 
Any mobilehome or trailer coach in an unsanitary condition;
(6) 
Any mobilehome or trailer coach which is structurally unsound and does not protect its inhabitants against the elements; or
(7) 
Any mobilehome or trailer coach to which there is attached or to which there is established less than six feet adjacent thereto any room or lean-tos; provided, however, that an approved cabana, ramada, carport or an awning entirely open on one side may be allowed and except as otherwise provided herein.
(Prior code § 20.12)
It is unlawful for any person to rent or hold out for rent any mobilehome or trailer coach in a mobilehome park or trailer park which is owned by or in the possession or control of the owner or operator of the mobilehome park or trailer park or his or her agent. The rental paid for any such mobilehome or trailer coach shall also be deemed to be rental for the space it occupies.
(Prior code § 20.13)
It is unlawful to park or use a mobilehome or trailer coach for living or sleeping purposes, or to connect the same to any utility, except when parked in a mobilehome site or trailer site within a legally operated mobilehome park or trailer park, unless a specific permit is granted by the city council.
(Prior code § 20.14)
It is unlawful to camp overnight or to park a mobilehome or trailer coach overnight upon any public street or alley, including the right-of-way. This provision shall not apply where a mobilehome or trailer coach is parked for the purpose of making emergency repairs; however, it is unlawful to park or store a mobilehome or trailer coach in driveways and within front yard setback areas.
(Prior code § 20.15)
The following provisions shall apply to all new mobilehome parks and trailer parks and additions to existing mobilehome parks or trailer parks:
(1) 
No mobilehome or trailer coach shall be located closer than six feet from any building or another mobilehome or trailer coach; provided, however, that this does not apply to a compartment containing solely a private toilet or bath, or both, constructed for the exclusive use of an occupant of a mobilehome site or trailer site designed for the occupancy of one mobilehome or trailer coach. Site lines or corners must be marked or easily identified;
(2) 
Each mobilehome or trailer coach and each building shall not be located closer than three feet from a site line;
(3) 
Each mobilehome or trailer site shall have a driveway entrance of not less than twenty feet in width fronting the parks' internal roadway systems. All driveways shall have clear and unobstructed access to a public thoroughfare. Each mobilehome or trailer shall be parked on each site with the hitch fronting toward this driveway;
(4) 
A mobilehome park or trailer park shall not accommodate any mobilehome or trailer coach when there are no viable mobilehome sites or trailer sites within the park.
(Prior code § 20.16)
(a) 
The mobilehome park or trailer park operator shall be responsible for the instruction of his or her staff in the use of the mobilehome park or trailer park fire protection equipment and in their specific duties in the event of fire.
(b) 
It shall be the responsibility of the mobilehome park or trailer park operator to inform all tenants about means for summoning the fire department, police department and mobilehome park or trailer park employees.
(c) 
Approved first aid fire appliances shall be provided for fighting incipient fires in ordinary combustible materials (Class A) readily accessible to all trailer occupants, in readily visible locations. Such first aid fire appliances may consist of two and one-half gallon Class A extinguishers so located that it will not be necessary to travel more than one hundred feet from any trailer to reach the nearest extinguisher, or may consist of garden hose of a type usable in all weather, permanently attached, in cabinets immediately adjacent to the hose connection, so located that any part of any trailer can be reached with a hose stream.
(d) 
One or more approved five pound extinguishers of a type suitable for flammable liquids or electrical fires shall be provided and shall be so located that it will not be necessary to travel more than one hundred feet from any trailer to reach the nearest extinguisher.
(e) 
Water supply facilities for fire department operations shall consist of a private hydrant system connected to domestic water supply with each hydrant in the system capable of supplying a minimum of two one and one-half inch hose streams, at seventy-five gallons per minute and thirty pounds flowing pressure each, on any fire in a trailer or elsewhere in mobilehome park or trailer park. These hydrants shall be located no more than two hundred feet from any trailer site.
(f) 
All fire extinguisher locations and hydrant locations shall be plainly marked, protected from weather or accidental damage and shall be used for no purpose other than fire fighting.
(g) 
Every owner, operator, lessee or other person in charge of any mobilehome park or trailer park, who becomes aware of any fire which is a hazard to the mobilehome park or trailer park, shall report the matter without delay to the fire department.
(Prior code § 20.17)
(a) 
The area or plot of land upon which a mobilehome or trailer park is situated and each mobilehome site or trailer site shall be:
(1) 
Well drained and graded, having due regard for the elevation of any abutting streets or drainage easements;
(2) 
All walkways and driveways shall be paved with one and one-half asphaltic concrete surfacing and approved by the city engineer;
(3) 
Kept free from dust; and
(4) 
Kept clean and free from the accumulation of refuse, garbage, rubbish or debris.
(b) 
The mobilehome site or trailer site and the space directly beneath each mobilehome or trailer coach shall be kept clean and free from refuse, rubbish or other impediments.
(c) 
All plumbing fixtures shall be maintained in good repair and in operating condition at all times.
(d) 
Every structure shall be maintained in an approved, safe and sanitary condition.
(e) 
All devices, installations and safeguards required by this title shall be maintained in approved working order.
(f) 
No obstruction shall be so erected, placed or maintained as to prevent inspection of electrical and sanitary facilities or mobilehome or trailer equipment. Approved storage cabinets may be used on a mobilehome or trailer site.
(g) 
Flammable liquids shall not be stored or used in quantities in excess of one gallon, and all such flammable liquids shall be kept in unbreakable and tight containers when not in actual use.
(Prior code § 20.18)
The location, installation, marking, filling, maintenance and use of liquefied petroleum gas tanks and associated equipment shall be in accordance with the liquefied petroleum gases safety orders of the state of California, division of industrial safety, as effects LPG.
No liquefied petroleum gas cylinder shall be charged within ten feet of any structure or mobilehome or trailer coach.
(Prior code § 20.19)
Lighting equipment shall be such that there shall be not less than two-tenths average foot candle for protective lighting per square foot the full length of all driveways during the hours from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise of each succeeding day.
(Prior code § 20.20)
(a) 
A minimum of five foot candles of light shall be maintained at entrances to utility buildings.
(b) 
A minimum of twenty-five foot candles of light shall maintained at floor level within utility buildings.
(c) 
All electrical equipment in a shower compartment shall be vapor tight.
(d) 
All lights in utility buildings must be wall switched. No pull chains shall be allowed.
(Prior code § 20.22)
Every person who owns or operates a mobilehome park or trailer park shall keep a record in which shall be entered:
(1) 
The name and address of each guest who is the owner or operator of an automobile, and the name and address of each member of his or her party for which accommodations are afforded or for which space is rented and the identification space of the mobilehome site or trailer site the guest occupied.
(2) 
The make, type and license number of the automobile and mobilehome or trailer coach, and the state in which such vehicle is registered and the year of registration.
(Prior code § 20.23)
(a) 
Dogs and animals shall not be permitted to run at large in any mobilehome park or trailer park.
(b) 
Poultry and other barnyard animals shall not be permitted in any mobilehome park or trailer park.
(Prior code § 20.24)