The following words, terms and phrases, when
used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in
this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
LICENSEE
Any person or his agent, receiving a license to conduct,
operate or maintain a mobile home or trailer park or court or storage
area for mobile homes or trailers.
MOBILE HOME
A unit mounted on wheels or any vehicle used for sleeping
or living quarters, permanent or temporary, which may be equipped
with running water, bath facilities, flush toilet or other appropriate
sanitary accommodations, and which may be moved from place to place,
either by its own power or by power supplied by some vehicle attached
to it or to be attached to it.
MOBILE HOME or TRAILER PARK OR COURT
Privately-owned land upon which two or more mobile homes
or trailers are or are intended to be used and occupied as sleeping
or living quarters, permanent or temporary.
STORAGE AREA
An area set aside for dead storage of trailers.
TRAILER
Any automobile trailer designed to be moved or pulled by
any vehicle, other than mobile home, used for or adaptable for use
as living quarters, permanent or temporary, by any person.
The Zoning Official shall be the authorized
official to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
No individual mobile homes or trailers shall
be placed or parked except in a licensed mobile home or trailer park
or court or licensed storage area within the Town.
No tenting camps shall be permitted in the Town,
and no tents shall be used for sleeping or living purposes in the
Town.
[Amended 5-10-2004 by
Ch. No. 1490]
No person shall maintain or operate a mobile home or trailer park or court without having first obtained a license from the licensing authority. The application for such license shall be obtained at the office of the Town Clerk on a form provided by such office, and in the event that a license shall be issued to the applicant in due course, the fee provided in Ch.
121, Fee Schedule, paid to the Town Clerk, shall cover the period from the time of the issuance of the license to December 31 next after the issuance of the license. All licenses shall be renewed annually by December 1, and the fee shall be as designated in Chapter
121, Fee Schedule.
Each licensee shall keep a bound register in
which the following information shall be recorded forthwith upon the
letting of each mobile home or trailer lot; such information shall
be furnished on request to the Town Clerk and such register shall
be available for inspection by the Police Department at all times:
A. Full name of mobile home or trailer owner.
B. Make, model, size, serial number and year of manufacture
of mobile home or trailer.
C. State in which registered and registration number
of mobile home or trailer.
D. Date of arrival and date of departure.
E. Car registration number of person owning or using
the mobile home or trailer.
Whenever in any mobile home or trailer park
or court the management willfully or negligently allows and permits
a condition to exist, where in the discretion of the Chief of Police
the public peace or public morals are adversely affected, or in the
discretion of the Fire Marshal the public safety is endangered from
an unusual fire risk; or in the discretion of the health officer the
public health is menaced, or in the discretion of the Director of
Public Works or the Building Official the public safety is endangered,
the Chief of Police, in his own discretion or on recommendation of
any of the above-mentioned officials, shall notify the management
of such mobile home or trailer park or court to promptly remedy such
condition, and may suspend the license to operate such camp or parking
site, pending future action of the Town Council. Whenever such action
is taken by the Chief of Police, he or such other Town officer as
may be concerned shall forthwith communicate to the Town Manager in
writing, the action they have taken and their reasons therefor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
In courts where gasoline, fuel, oil or other
flammable liquids are stored and dispensed, their handling and storage
shall comply with NFPA No. 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code.
Any mobile home or trailer park existing on October 20, 1964, shall be exempted from the provisions of this chapter, except that each such mobile home or trailer park shall obtain a license from the licensing authority. The application for such license shall be obtained from the office of the Town Clerk on the same form as those used for other mobile home or trailer parks. The initial fee and the renewal fee each year, paid to the Town Clerk, between December 15 and December 31 shall be as provided in Chapter
121, Fee Schedule. It is further provided that the sanitary provisions of each mobile home or trailer park shall conform to the State Department of Public Health regulations and shall be approved by the Department. Each such mobile home or trailer park shall be inspected by the Town Fire Marshal and in his discretion such reasonable measures as are necessary for fire protection shall be made mandatory. No additional trailers or mobile homes to those already provided for shall be permitted in any existing trailer camp without first obtaining written permission from the licensing authority. The operator of each such existing mobile home or trailer camp shall maintain a register similar to and containing the same information as that required in this chapter for other mobile home or trailer parks and it shall be available for inspection by the Police Department at all times. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the expansion of an existing trailer camp up to an additional 20,000 square feet, provided that the licensee held title to the land as of October 20, 1964, on which the addition is to take place and provided that the licensee complies with the provisions hereinbefore mentioned.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction be punished as provided in Chapter
1, Article
II, General Penalty, for each offense. Each day such violation shall continue beyond one day from original conviction shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense. Continued violation of any provision of this chapter shall constitute grounds for licensing authority revocation of license.