[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Mantua as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-8-1973 (Ch. 108, Art. I, of the 1978 Code)][1]
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The preamble in the ordinance included in
this article read as follows:
"WHEREAS the Township of Mantua has some residents
who inhabit what is commonly described as a mobile home or trailer
which often are of considerable size and convenience, fully equipped
for permanent modern living and yet freely movable by special towing
equipment, but also located with varying degrees of permanency to
the land, and"
"WHEREAS some of the aforementioned mobile
homes are located in mobile home or trailer parks while others are
situate on land owned or leased by the owner of the mobile home, and"
"WHEREAS the residents of such mobile homes
enjoy or have available for enjoyment municipal and county governmental
services and educational services, and"
"WHEREAS the per capita cost of educating
a child in the Clearview Regional Junior High School is $300.35 and
the per capita cost of educating a child in the Clearview Regional
Senior High School is $1,105.44 and the per capita cost of educating
a child in the Mantua Township Elementary School System is $618.40,
and"
"WHEREAS the cost of providing (1) governmental
services to the county and municipal level and (2) educational services
and (3) veterans exemptions and (4) senior citizen exemptions is $5.03
per hundred dollars of valuations, and"
"WHEREAS residents of mobile homes not within
a trailer park or mobile home and/or not presently being taxed as
owners of real property because such mobile homes or trailer are not
affixed to the realty with sufficient permanency to permit real property
taxation are now not paying any monies toward the defraying of costs
of the aforementioned services, and"
"WHEREAS the Township Committee of the Township
of Mantua is desirous of achieving parity and equality of payments
among the users of governmental and educational services,"
"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED THAT:"
Each head of family or household residing in
a mobile home which is not located in a mobile home park or upon which
real estate taxes are presently not levied shall henceforth procure
a mobile home license entitling that resident and his family or household
to occupancy in said mobile home and use of municipal and county governmental
services and educational services.
[Amended 1-23-1979[1]]
Said license may be procured on a quarterly
basis or a yearly basis and shall expire, depending upon the license
issued, either three months or one year from the date
of issuance.
The parking or storing of a mobile home on the
premises of the owner shall be permitted without a license if such
mobile home is not used as a living or sleeping accommodation.
Any person required to procure a mobile home
license as defined in this Article who does not do so according to
the terms of this Article shall be subject to prosecution and punishment
as a disorderly person in the local Municipal Court.
Every person who would be entitled to an exemption
from assessment or credit against the collection of taxes under Title
54 of the New Jersey Statutes shall be entitled to a like exemption
or credit under this Article, to the end that if a person so entitled
makes claim for such preferred treatment with the Township Clerk of
the Township of Mantua, that person, if found to be so entitled, shall
pay an appropriately reduced license fee on a quarterly basis with
the exemption or credit prorated over the four quarters of a calendar
year.
A.
Any person, entity or corporation who or which violates
any provision of this article, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
punishable by one or more of the following: imprisonment in the county
jail or any place provided by the municipality for the detention of
prisoners for a term up to but not exceeding 90 days or by a fine
of not less than $100 and not more than $2,000 or by a period of community
service up to but not exceeding 90 days, or any combination of the
above.
B.
Each day that a violation exists, occurs, or continues
shall constituted a separate offense for the purpose of imposing the
penalties referred to above.
[Adopted 4-25-1978 (Ch. 108, Art. I, of the 1978 Code)]
As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Township Committee of the Township of Mantua.
A home, excluding travel trailers and other recreational
vehicles, which is a movable or portable unit, designed and constructed
to be towed on its own chassis (comprised of frame and wheels) and
designed to be connected to utilities for year-round occupancy. The
term shall include units containing parts that may be folded, collapsed
or telescoped when being towed and that may be expanded to provide
additional cubic capacity, and units composed of two or more separately
towable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable
of being again separated into the components for repeated towing.
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so
designed and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots
available to the general public for a fee for the placement thereon
of mobile homes for occupancy.
The following regulations shall apply to all
mobile homes located within the Township of Mantua:
A.
A mobile home shall fully comply with the requirements
of the Uniform Standards Code for Mobile Homes, N.J.S.A. 52:27D-25.1
et seq.
B.
No more than one family shall reside in any one mobile
home.
C.
Each mobile home shall be equipped with an adequate,
operative fire extinguisher of a standard accepted brand of manufacture.
No person, partnership, firm, corporation or
association shall conduct or carry on the business of the operation
of a mobile home park; or work in, occupy or directly or indirectly
in any manner whatsoever utilize any place or premises in which is
conducted or carried on a mobile home park, unless and until the owner
or operator of the mobile home park has applied for and obtained a
valid license from the governing body for the operation of a mobile
home park on the premises in question.
Said mobile home park license shall be applied
for by written application, signed by the applicant and filed with
the Township Clerk of the Township of Mantua. Such application shall
set forth the full name and address of the applicant, the particular
kind or character of business to be carried on or conducted, number
of vehicles parked, the location or place of the premises in which
the same is to be carried on, the total area of the ground space thereof
and a diagram of same. Said application shall also be accompanied
by a deposit to cover the license fee for the current year in the
amount hereinafter provided, which license fee, after the beginning
of the year, as to any licensed mobile home park shall be proportionately
prorated for the remainder of the year.
After receipt of application for a mobile home
park license, the governing body shall inspect the proposed site or
cause inspection thereof to be made by the Police, Health and Fire
Departments. If, after inspection, license is granted, said premises
shall remain subject to inspection by all township officials at any
time of day or night without notice. Any condition found by the officials
to be detrimental to the health and welfare of its citizens or the
Township of Mantua or in violation of state or local laws or of regulations
set forth below shall be remedied within five days after notice, either
written or oral, is given to the owner.
After review of the application and the premises
involved, the governing body shall pass upon the question of whether
the license shall be issued. Upon approval by the governing body,
the Township Clerk of the Township of Mantua shall issue a license
to the applicant.
Where the governing body denies a mobile home
park license to the applicant, the applicant may appeal the decision
and seek a hearing before the governing body.
[Amended 8-12-1997; 7-27-1999; 5-22-2001]
The license fee for a mobile home park shall
be $600 per year. Said license shall expire on December 31 of each
year, and said fee is hereby declared to be expressly imposed for
revenue. Said sum of $600 shall be payable in advance for each year.
Each licensee shall maintain a mobile home park
registry, which shall be open at all times to the governing body,
the Police Department, the Tax Collector and the Tax Assessor and
such other township officials as may require an examination of same.
Each month two copies of the registry as it pertains to the previous
month shall be submitted to the Township Clerk of the Township of
Mantua, together with payment of any and all fees due the township
as provided herein. The registry shall set forth the type and license
or serial number of each mobile home, body type and license number
of automobiles, date of arrival, whether still at the mobile home
park, and, if not, the date of departure, and the age, name and last
permanent address of the owner of each car and mobile home and of
each occupant thereof.
No license shall be transferable without permission
of the governing body.
No license shall be issued for more than 40
mobile homes in any one mobile home park.
No licensee under this article shall levy or
impose upon a mobile home owner an entrance fee of any type for the
privilege of locating his mobile home in or on any licensed premises.
Mobile home parks shall be regulated by and
comply with the requirements of the Standard for Mobile Home Parks,
NFPA No. 501A-1974, ANSI A119.3, as approved by the National Fire
Protection Association and the American National Standards Institute,
save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified
or amended, of which standard one copy is now filed in the office
of the Township Clerk of the Township of Mantua in Volume 11 of the
National Fire Code, and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated
as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this article
shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within
the Township of Mantua.
Subsection 3.3.2 of the Standard for Mobile
Home Parks, NFPA No. 501A, is hereby amended to read as follows:
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3.3.2 A mobile home shall not be located closer
than 15 feet to any other mobile home or permanent building within
the mobile home park. A mobile home accessory building shall not be
closer than five feet to a mobile home or building on an adjacent
lot.
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Subsection 3.5 of the Standard for Mobile Home
Parks, NFPA No. 501A, is hereby amended to read as follows:
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3.5 Park streets shall be of adequate width
to accommodate the contemplated parking and traffic load in accordance
with the type of street. The minimum width of any street or road shall
be 30 feet. Streets which allow for parallel parking shall have an
additional seven feet on each side upon which parking is allowed.
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The first sentence of Subsection 10.4.2 of the
Standard for Mobile Home Parks, NFPA No. 501A, is hereby amended to
read as follows: "It is required that each mobile home owner provide
for his own protection a listed portable fire extinguisher suitable
for handling incipient fires in the home."
Subsection 5.13.3 of the Standard for Mobile
Home Parks, NFPA No. 501A, is hereby amended as follows:
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5.13.3 An opaque, fireproof fence or shrubbery
a minimum of five feet in height shall surround the entire park, with
openings for entrances and exits only.
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Subsection 7.2.1.1 of the Standard for Mobile
Home Parks, NFPA No. 501A, shall be amended to read as follows:
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7.2.1.1 An adequate and safe sewage collection
system shall be provided in all mobile home parks for conveying and
disposing of all sewage. The sewer system shall be connected to the
sewer system or other approved disposal plant. All new improvements
shall be designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with applicable
laws and regulations.
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Subsection 3.5.2 of the Standard for Mobile
Home Parks, NFPA No. 501A, is hereby amended to include the following
sentence: "The driveways and lanes of the park grounds shall be illuminated
as required by the municipal authorities for streetlighting."
Subsection 6.2 of the Standard for Mobile Home
Parks is hereby amended to include the following: "In addition, all
permanent buildings shall have lighting fixtures sufficient to allow
normal visibility when used at night."
The following additional regulations shall apply
to mobile home parks:
A.
The owner or operator of the mobile home park shall
provide proper facilities for garbage, waste and trash disposal, including
separate cans for each type of disposable material and waste.
B.
Such licensed premises shall at all times comply with
all police, health and fire regulations imposed by the governing body
or Board of Health.
C.
Water supply must meet all requirements of the township
and of the State of New Jersey and must be tested as required by the
State Board of Health, and a copy of each report made by the state
must be delivered to the Township Committee by the owner/operator
of the mobile home park.
D.
The park owner or operator shall inspect each mobile
home to ensure that it is equipped with a fire extinguisher before
it is permitted to enter the mobile home park.
E.
No personnel shall permit the mobile home park or
any mobile home located therein to be used for any unlawful purpose
or for any activity which would be injurious to public health or safety,
nor shall the violation of any township ordinance or statute of New
Jersey be permitted.
F.
Faucets for community water supply shall be installed
in accessible locations at distances of not more than 100 feet from
each mobile home unit. In addition, not less than one laundry tub
and slop sink shall be installed for each unit of 10 mobile homes.
G.
Repair shops for motor vehicles shall be located not
less than 20 feet from mobile homes or any buildings.
A mobile home may be brought into the township
for repairs or storage without a license, provided it is left with
a public garage for that purpose and also provided it is not used
as living or sleeping quarters while undergoing repairs or while stored.
In case of failure or refusal to comply with
any terms or provisions of this Article, the governing body may, on
notice and hearing, refuse or revoke any license applied for or granted
hereunder.
[Amended 4-25-1989]
A.
Any person, entity or corporation who or which violates
any provision of this Article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable
by one or more of the following: imprisonment in the county jail or
any place provided by the municipality for the detention of prisoners
for a term up to but not exceeding 90 days or by a fine of not less
than $100 and not more than $2,000 or by a period of community service
up to but not exceeding 90 days, or any combination of the above.
B.
Each day that a violation exists, occurs or continues
shall constitute a separate offense for the purpose of imposing the
penalties referred to above.
Nothing in this Article shall be deemed to permit mobile home parks, as herein defined, in any zoning district of the Township of Mantua where Chapter 230, Land Development, forbids the same.
