[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Barnstable 3-2-1937, approved 3-18-1937
(Art. VII of Ch. III of the General Ordinances as updated through 7-7-2003).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
For the purposes of this chapter, certain words and phrases are defined,
and certain provisions shall be construed, as herein set out, unless it shall
be apparent from their context that a different meaning is intended:
Construed to mean any building or structure, house car, camp car,
or auto-trailer, used for, or adaptable to use for, living quarters.
Any place where two or more camp cottages are located, or any premises
designed or intended for the purpose of supplying to the public a location
for a camp cottage.
A section of ground in any tourist camp used, or designed for use,
as a location for a single camp cottage.
No tourist camp or park shall be permitted to be located on any land,
park or beach land owned or controlled by the Town of Barnstable except as
permitted by the Town Manager.
[Amended 3-6-1956, approved 5-15-1956]
It shall be unlawful to locate or use as living or sleeping quarters
any camp cottage on any premises other than those contained within a tourist
camp duly permitted and maintained pursuant to the provisions of this chapter,
or to permit the same to be done on any premises. No unit shall contain less
than 600 feet in area, and no unit shall be permitted to accommodate more
than one camp cottage.
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or maintain, or to permit to be established or maintained upon any property owned or controlled by him, a tourist camp in the Town of Barnstable, unless there exists a valid permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of this chapter and of the ordinances of the Town of Barnstable. The application for such permit shall be accompanied by plans of the proposed tourist camp, showing the location of all buildings, driveways, toilet facilities, showers, laundry facilities, slop sinks and other improvements. Public notice of the application for permit shall be given by the Town Manager and the same procedure followed out as applicable to conversion of lands from residential to business uses as set forth under Chapter 240, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Barnstable. A permit fee as provided in Chapter 76, Fees, Article II, Schedule of Fees, per tourist camp shall be charged before any such permit shall be issued, and a renewal fee shall be paid each year during existence of such permit, and in the said amount as provided in the Schedule of Fees, per tourist camp maintained within the tourist camp.
A.
Every permanent camp cottage that is maintained within
a tourist camp unit shall be improved and provided with at least one toilet,
one bathtub or shower, one wash basin and one kitchen sink.
B.
All tourist camp units which are not improved with permanent
structures for living quarters shall be provided with a minimum, for each
six, of one toilet and one bathtub or shower for every 10 units. Such toilets
and urinals shall be not more than 200 feet removed from the unit served by
them. A two-compartment laundry tub, a slop sink, and a wash basin, with running
water, shall be provided for every eight units or fraction thereof.
C.
All plumbing work shall be in compliance with plumbing
regulations and ordinances of the Town of Barnstable, and subject to inspection
by the Inspector of Plumbing of the Town.
D.
No dry or chemical closets shall be installed or used
within any tourist camp site, and all such closets shall be sealed while within
the limits of the Town of Barnstable.
E.
A sufficient number of tightly covered cans for garbage
disposal shall be installed. Garbage so collected shall be deposited in the
Town garbage disposal area at least twice in the week by the camp manager.
F.
Every tourist camp and all structures therein shall be
constructed and maintained at all times in a thoroughly sanitary condition.
A.
Every tourist camp shall be provided with adequate means
of lighting the same by medium of electricity, provided that electrical service
is available.
B.
All electric wiring, distributing systems and equipment for distributing electricity in said tourist camps shall be subject to the provisions in all laws relating thereto of Chapter 68, Electrical Standards, Article I, Inspection of Wires. If in the opinion of the Inspector of Wires and the Town of Barnstable he shall deem it to be the best interests of public safety and welfare, all or any part of any electric system may be by him required to be placed underground.
C.
Lights shall be provided at all toilets and baths and
shall be kept lighted from 1/2 hour after sunset until 1/2 hour before sunrise.
Every tourist camp shall maintain a manager in charge thereof. Such
manager shall require all tourists or other persons using such tourist camp
to register in a book kept for that purpose. He shall also keep a record of
the name, address and car license number of each occupant of such tourist
camp, which record shall at all times be open to inspection by the Police
Department.
It shall be unlawful for any person, except the manager and his bona
fide employees, to remain or live in any tourist camp for more than 90 days
in any six-month period, and it shall be unlawful for any tourist camp permittee
or his agent to permit any person to remain in the tourist camp under the
control of such permittee or his agent longer than the period herein allowed.
There shall be maintained at all times in every tourist camp at least
one approved fire extinguisher for every five units. Cooking and heating equipment
installed in a tourist camp shall have the approval of the Chief of the Fire
Department of the Fire District wherein such tourist camp is located, before
such equipment shall be put to use.
[Amended 3-27-1973, approved 7-29-1974]
This chapter shall not apply to Sandy Neck or to properties in use at
the time of its adoption.
The Town Manager of the Town of Barnstable shall have the power to promulgate
rules and regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter,
and for the purpose of insuring the maintenance of tourist camps and structures
therein in a manner compatible with public health and safety.
