[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Whitesboro 11-8-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
This chapter shall be entitled "Trailers and Campers."
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Whitesboro finds that
the improper use of trailers and campers for living purposes in the
Village of Whitesboro is detrimental to the health, safety and welfare
of its residents, causes unsanitary conditions and creates a nuisance.
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined
as follows:
Not only a self-contained and self-propelled vehicle used
or intended to be used as a conveyance upon the public streets and
designed in such a manner as to permit the occupancy thereof by one
or more persons as a place for sleeping, eating and general living,
irrespective of whether or not the said vehicle is used actually for
said purposes, but also any structural body not having wheels but
which may be slid onto the body of a truck, attached thereto and transported
as an integral part of said truck and designed in such a manner as
to permit the occupancy thereof by one or more persons as a place
for sleeping, eating and general living, irrespective of whether or
not the said vehicle is used actually for said purposes. In addition,
a camper is also intended to include a vehicle as heretofore described
or a structural body as heretofore described and also used or intended
to be used for the transportation or storage of goods, materials and
other tangible personal property only and not designed for sleeping,
eating and general living.
An individual, a partnership, an association or a corporation.
Any vehicle used or intended to be used as a conveyance upon
the public streets and designed in such a manner as to permit the
occupancy thereof by one or more persons as a place for sleeping,
eating and general living, irrespective of whether or not the said
vehicle is used actually for said purposes. This definition is intended
to include not only those vehicles having two or more wheels and hitched,
hooked or attached in some other manner to a self-propelled vehicle
such as an automobile or truck, but also those vehicles from which
the wheels have been removed and which are either permanently or semipermanently
attached to the ground and hooked into one or more public utilities
such as gas, electricity, water and sewer. In addition, a trailer
is also intended to include a vehicle designed in such a manner as
to be hooked, hitched or attached in some other manner to a self-propelled
vehicle such as an automobile or truck and used or intended to be
used for the transportation or storage of goods, materials and other
tangible personal property only and not designed for sleeping, eating
and general living.
A.
Trailers used or intended to be used in business and commerce for
the transportation or storage of goods, materials and other tangible
personal property and trailers used or intended to be used as a temporary
office during the period of construction are not included in the above
definition of "trailer."
B.
Further, trailers used or intended to be used temporarily for educational
or convention use also are not included in the above definition of
"trailer."
C.
The definition of "camper" is not intended to include a commercial
truck, panel truck or other such vehicle.
The use of a trailer or camper for living purposes as heretofore
stated is prohibited within the jurisdictional limits of the Village
of Whitesboro.
The parking of a trailer or camper overnight upon any street
within the jurisdictional limits of the Village of Whitesboro is prohibited,
except by permit which shall be issued by the Chief of Police of the
Village of Whitesboro, at his discretion. The aforesaid permit may
be issued to those property owners or their agents whose property
abuts on that portion of the street upon which overnight parking of
a trailer or camper is sought to be permitted. The Chief of Police
of the Village of Whitesboro shall consider the size of the trailer
or camper and the trafficability of the street upon which a permit
for overnight parking is sought, along with the proposed duration
of the requested permit for overnight parking.
An unoccupied trailer or camper may be parked or stored upon
any private property within the jurisdictional limits of the Village
of Whitesboro; however, in no case shall the trailer or camper be
made immobile by the removal of wheels, nor shall the trailer or camper
be permanently affixed to the private property.
The Board of Trustees is authorized to approve the temporary
parking of trailers and campers for the purpose of emergency repairs
to the same.
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this
chapter, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine in an
amount not exceeding the sum of $250 or imprisonment for a period
not exceeding 15 days, or both. Further, each day that a violation
is permitted to exist shall be considered a separate offense.
