For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AUTOMOBILE TOURIST PARK OR CAMP
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.
AUTOMOBILE TRAILER OR HOUSE CAR
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.
TOURIST PARK OR CAMP
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.
UNIT
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:
A. 
For a tourist park or camp: $60 per unit.
B. 
For an automobile tourist park or camp: $60 per unit.
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: Ch. 68, Building Construction.
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 197, Zoning.
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.