For the purpose of this article, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Any plot of ground where accommodation is provided for one
or more automobile trailers or house cars used or arranged to be used
for living or sleeping quarters.
Any vehicle used or arranged to be used for living or as
sleeping quarters, mounted on wheels and movable or propelled either
by its own power or drawn by another power vehicle.
Any plot of ground upon which one or more camp cottages or
cabins used for or arranged to be used for the accommodation of transients
by the day, week or month are located.
That portion of a tourist park or camp or automobile tourist
park or camp set apart for the use of an individual cottage, cabin,
automobile trailer or house car.
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish,
maintain, operate or conduct within the City any tourist park or camp
or any automobile tourist park or camp, or any combination of such,
unless duly licensed so to do as hereinafter provided and except in
strict compliance with this article and all other provisions of law
and ordinances applicable thereto.
[Amended 12-20-2000 by L.L. No. 15-2000]
An application for a license provided for under
the preceding section shall be made by filing with the Clerk a written
application on a blank form prepared and furnished by the City, together
with detailed plans and specifications of all buildings, structures,
plumbing, sewer and drainage systems and lighting and any other information
required by the Building Inspector. Such application shall be accompanied
by a fee of $50 for every five units or fewer, plus $10 for each additional
five units; but if a license is subsequently issued, said fees shall
be applied on account of the license fee, and in the event a license
is not issued, such investigation fee shall be retained by the City.
The Building Inspector shall examine and investigate
the statements contained in such application, together with the plans
and specifications, and shall report to the Council his/her recommendations
thereon.
The Council shall consider the report of the
Building Inspector and may for that purpose hold a public hearing,
on notice prescribed by said Council, upon such application and shall
determine whether the proposed tourist park or camp or automobile
tourist park or camp complies with the provisions of this article.
[Amended 2-2-1977 by Ord. No. 2-1977; 12-20-2000 by L.L. No. 15-2000]
If such application is acted upon favorably
by the Council, it shall direct the Clerk to issue a license to the
applicant upon payment of the following fees:
Each license issued pursuant to this article
shall expire on the 31st day of December. The fee for such license
shall not be prorated for any lesser period than one year, and such
license shall always be on display in the office of the tourist park
or camp or automobile tourist park or camp.
A tourist park or camp or automobile tourist
park or camp shall be located on a well-drained site of adequate size,
which shall be free from heavy or dense growth of brush or weeds.
The land shall be properly graded so as to ensure rapid drainage during
and following rain and freedom from stagnant pools of water, and each
such park or camp must be accessible to the public sewer, and each
trailer, house car, cottage or cabin, or by whatever other name known,
placed or located thereon, used for or designed to be used for living
or sleeping quarters, shall have a separate connection for sewage
purposes and be connected with the City sewer.
Each unit in which a camp, cottage or cabin
is erected or placed or which accommodates an automobile trailer or
house car shall be not less than 30 by 50 feet in area, which area
shall be clearly defined by markers at each corner. No cottage or
cabin used or arranged for use for living quarters or sleeping quarters
shall be less than 280 square feet, of which no dimension shall be
less than 14 feet, and such cottage or cabin shall not be less than
eight feet high from the floor to the ceiling and shall have not less
than 27 square feet of ventilating openings or windows, all being
adequately screened. If the floor be of wood, it shall not be less
than 12 inches above the level of the ground. The roof of each cottage
or cabin shall extend sufficiently beyond the exterior walls so that
all roof water shall fall free of the walls. Each cottage or cabin
and each automobile trailer or house car shall not be less than 20
feet from any property line and from any other building, structure,
cottage, cabin or automobile trailer or house car.
All entrances and exits from any park or camp
shall be well marked and so arranged as not to constitute a traffic
hazard. All driveways within the tourist camp shall be hard-surfaced,
not less than 25 feet in width, well marked in the daytime and lighted
at night and so located that each unit in the camp is readily accessible
to a driveway.
No tourist park or camp and no automobile tourist
park or camp shall provide toilets, urinals, slop basins, washbasins,
showers or baths, but each unit in such park or camp shall be separately
equipped with such facilities and so constructed therein that each
can be separately connected with the City sewer.
All plumbing and sanitary installations shall
be made in accordance with the Plumbing and Building Codes of the
City[1] and any other law, rule, regulation or ordinance of the
City applicable thereto.
The only water supply for such park or camp
shall be the water supply used by the City at large.
A covered metal garbage pail and a covered metal
rubbish container of adequate size shall be provided for each unit.
Every tourist park or camp or automobile tourist
park or camp shall be under the management of the licensee, who must
be of good reputation and character and who shall manage such camp
from an office located on the premises. There shall be maintained
in such office a bound book containing a record of the names of persons
accommodated at the camp, their occupation, dates of arrival and departure,
their home address, the license number and make of their automobile
or other vehicle; such record shall at all reasonable times be available
for inspection by the Building Inspector and any police officer of
the City.
It shall be the duty of the licensee of any
such park or camp:
A.
To provide for the daily collection and removal of
garbage and other waste material.
B.
To prohibit the placing or storage or unsightly materials
or vehicles of any kind.
C.
To provide for the cleaning of the grounds in connection
with such camp or park so as to maintain the same in a proper sanitary
condition at all times.
D.
To take such other measures as may be deemed necessary
by the Health Officer, by the Westchester County Department of Health
or by the Building Inspector to preserve the health, comfort and safety
of all accommodated in the camp or park and of the general public.
E.
To prevent any animal from running at large within
or outside the park or camp.
F.
To report to the Health Department of the City and
to the Westchester County Department of Health all cases of communicable
diseases affecting any occupant of the camp or park.
G.
To prevent the committing of any nuisance on the park
or camp premises and to report immediately to the proper authorities
all acts of a disorderly character committed by any person or persons
inside of the camp or park, and to that end to maintain proper policing
thereof.
No license shall be granted for the construction
or operation of such a park or camp in violation of the Zoning Ordinance[1] or other ordinances of the City.
The Mayor or the Building Inspector may revoke
or suspend the license granted upon authority of this article for
failure to comply with any provision hereof or any law or regulation
relating to any such camp or park.
