All mobilehome and trailer parks within the city shall conform
to the electrical, fire, health, building, plumbing and land use ordinances
of the city, as amended, except as hereinafter specified.
(Prior code § 20.1)
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;
when used in connection with any material, appliance or construction,
means meeting the requirements and approval of the building department
of the city;
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;"
means any shade structure of approved material installed,
erected or used adjoining or adjacent to a trailer coach;
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;
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;
means any cabana which is designed so as to be not readily
disassembled, moved and reassembled;
means any prefabricated cabana which is designed to be readily
assembled and disassembled and adapted to ready transportation from
place to place;
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;
as used in this chapter, means one not equipped with a toilet
for sewage disposal;
as used in this chapter, means one equipped with a toilet
for sewage disposal;
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;
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;"
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;
means the total area of a trailer site that is occupied by
any building, cabana, mobilehome, trailer coach, awning, storage cabinet
or structure;
means any roof, or shade structure installed, erected or
used above a mobilehome or a trailer coach and site, or any portion
thereof;
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;
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;
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In a mobilehome park or trailer park, "nuisance" includes any
of the following:
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(1)
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Any public nuisance known at common law or in equity jurisprudence;
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(2)
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Whatever is dangerous to human life or is detriment to health,
or which creates a fire hazard;
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(3)
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Overcrowding of any room with occupants;
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(4)
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Insufficient ventilation or illumination of any room;
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(5)
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Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing facilities or
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(6)
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Whatever renders air, food or drink unwholesome or detrimental
to the health of human beings.
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(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)
In every mobilehome park, all buildings and structures other
than trailer coaches shall comply with the building code and the State
Housing Act, where its requirements are applicable.
(Prior code § 20.8)
Every mobilehome park shall comply with the Trailer Park Act
where its requirements are applicable.
(Prior code § 20.9)
In every mobilehome park all plumbing work shall comply with
the requirements of the plumbing code.
(Prior code § 20.10)
In every mobilehome park all electrical work shall comply with
the requirements of the electrical code.
(Prior code § 20.11)
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)
Individual lamps for such lighting shall be so located that
the maximum distance between them does not exceed one hundred feet.
(Prior code § 20.21)
(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)
