[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Ardsley 5-7-1946; amended in its entirety 9-21-1992 by L.L. No. 8-1992.[1] Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Public off-street parking — See Ch. 143.
Parks and recreation — See Ch. 148.
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 190.
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Editor's Note: See Section 2 of this local law stated as follows: "This local law shall take effect January 1, 1993. Applications for permits to park or store any recreational vehicle which is already parked or stored as of January 1, 1993, must be submitted to the Building Inspector on or before March 31, 1993.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AUTOMOBILE TRAILER OR HOUSE CAR
Any vehicle used or arranged to be used for living or sleeping, mounted on wheels or arranged to be mounted on wheels, or arranged to be movable and propelled either by its own power or drawn by another power-driven source or vehicle.
AUTOMOBILE TRAILER PARK OR CAMP
Any plot of ground where space is provided or used for one or more automobile trailers or house cars, campers, camper-trailers, motor homes, trailers or any other recreational vehicles used or arranged to be used for living or sleeping.
BOAT
Any vessel or craft designed or used to transport person(s) or cargo on the surface of the water. The term shall include a sailboat, motorboat and rowboat.
CAMP COTTAGE, CABIN OR TENT
Any building or structure or enclosure not conforming to the provisions of Chapter 64, Building Construction, and Chapter 200, Zoning, of the Code of the Village of Ardsley, New York.
CAMPER
A separate vehicle designed for human habitation and which can be attached or detached from a pickup truck.
CAMPER-TRAILER
A vehicular, portable dwelling structure designed to be used for recreational purposes. This includes a travel trailer, so identified by the manufacturer; a pickup camper; a folding tent trailer; and a motorized camper where the camping portion is an integral part of the self-propelled vehicle.
MOTOR HOME
A self-contained vehicle designed for human habitation, with its own motive power and with a passageway from the body of the home to the driver's and front passenger's seat.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
A boat, camper, camper-trailer, motor home, trailer, automobile trailer or house car.
TRAILER
A vehicle without motive power designed for carrying persons or property on its own and to be drawn by a vehicle with motive power. The term "trailer" shall include but shall not be limited to horse trailers, boat trailers and skimobile trailers.
TOURIST PARK OR CAMP
Any plot of ground upon which one or more camp cottages, cabins or tents are used or arranged to be used for living or sleeping.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to establish, maintain, operate or conduct within the Village of Ardsley any tourist park or camp or any automobile trailer park or camp or any combination of the same without special written permission from the Mayor and Village Board of Trustees.
No person, firm or corporation shall park overnight or store a recreational vehicle upon any roadway, street or highway in any R-1, R-2, R-3 or CCH District within the Village of Ardsley. However, such overnight parking or storage may be permitted, at the discretion of the Village Police Department, for a period of no more than two weeks upon the issuance of a temporary overnight parking permit. The temporary parking permit fee shall be the same as the temporary overnight parking permit for other vehicles, if any.
It shall be unlawful to occupy any camper-trailer, automobile trailer, house car, boat, trailer, camper, motor home or other recreational vehicle for living or sleeping purposes or to cause any such vehicle to be connected to electric, water, gas or sanitary sewer facilities anywhere within the village for such purposes. In an emergency situation, permission to occupy any such recreational vehicle for living and sleeping purposes and to connect such vehicle to electric, water, gas or sanitary sewer may be granted by the Building Inspector or his designee for a period not to exceed 45 days. Such permission may be renewed in the discretion of the Building Inspector or his designee.
A. 
No recreational vehicle shall be parked or stored by any person, firm or corporation in any R-1, R-2, R-3 or CCH District without a parking/storage permit first being issued by the Building Inspector. No permit shall be issued by the Building Inspector to any person, firm or corporation for parking/storage on the following areas of any premises:
(1) 
The front yard, which shall include the entire area extending beyond the front line of the building, lot line to lot line.
(2) 
The part of a side yard which extends into side or rear yard requirements.
(3) 
The part of a rear yard extending into side or rear yard requirements.
B. 
In any event that a person, firm or corporation seeking a permit is unable to meet the requirements of Subsection A of this section, a parking/storage permit may be issued by the Building Inspector if the location of the recreational vehicle is naturally screened or situated in such a manner as to minimize any impact on the health, safety, appearance and general welfare of the village.
C. 
The Building Inspector shall have the authority at all times to require the natural screening of any recreational vehicle parked or stored at any location on the premises, including those permitted pursuant to Subsection A above, whenever reasonably necessary to maintain the health, safety, appearance and general welfare of the village.
Any person, firm or corporation parking or storing a recreational vehicle in any R-1, R-2, R-3 or CCH District for which a permit to do so is required must renew such permit annually. There shall be no fee for such permit or permit renewal.
A. 
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a violation pursuant to the Penal Law of the State of New York, punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this chapter shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate and distinct offense hereunder.
B. 
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500 for each offense, and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.