[Amended 12-19-2006 by L.L. No. 1-2006]
The purpose of this article is to regulate mobile home parks and commercial campgrounds, to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the community and to protect and preserve the property of the Village of Norwood, County of St. Lawrence, State of New York, and its inhabitants.
In its interpretation and application, the provisions of this article are held to be minimum requirements. Whenever the requirements of this article are held in variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted rules and regulations, the one most restrictive or the one that imposes the higher standard shall govern.
This article shall apply to all existing and future mobile home parks and commercial campgrounds.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to establish, maintain, operate or conduct within the Village of Norwood any mobile home park or commercial campground without obtaining a license as is hereafter provided. It shall be the owner's or operator's responsibility to see that each manufactured or mobile home unit is in compliance with this chapter.
A. 
The application for each mobile home park or commercial campground permit shall be in writing and signed by the applicant. It shall state:
(1) 
The name and address of the applicant.
(2) 
The name and address of each partner, if the applicant is a partnership.
(3) 
The name and address of each officer and director, if the applicant is a corporation.
(4) 
A complete description of the premises upon which the proposed park or campground is to be located.
(5) 
The name and address of the owner or owners of such premises.
(6) 
The number of park units or campsites to be provided in the proposed park or campground.
B. 
Plans. The application shall be accompanied by six sets of plans. These plans shall include specifications, drawn to scale, showing the layout of the park or campground, the location, size and arrangement of any park unit or campsite and arrangement of each park unit or campsite, location of streets, location of water services and location of the sewage disposal system or detail of the septic system and leach fields to be provided. Each park unit or campsite shall be separately numbered as shown upon such plans. Where the applicant is not the owner of the premises, the application shall also be accompanied by a certified or photostatic copy of the lease of the premises.
Each application shall be filed with the Village Clerk of the Village of Norwood, who shall thereupon transmit the same to the Village Code Enforcement Officer. Such application shall indicate compliance by the applicant with the minimum park or campground requirements as established by the rules and regulations of the State Department of Health and by the Sanitary Code of the State of New York. The Code Enforcement Officer shall, after investigation, transmit the application to the Board of Trustees of the Village of Norwood, together with his written approval or recommendation pertaining thereto. All such applications, after investigation, shall be approved or rejected by the Board of Trustees, after which the applications shall be filed with the Village Clerk and the applicant notified, in writing, by the Village Clerk of the action taken thereon. If said application is rejected, the applicant shall have the right to appear before the Board of Trustees for a hearing.
The Village Clerk of the Village of Norwood, upon the written application, upon the approval of the same by the Board of Trustees and upon receipt of the fee hereinafter provided, shall issue a license to become effective from the date thereof and to continue in force through the 31st day of December next succeeding for the use of the premises therein specified as a mobile home park or commercial campground, which license shall specify the number of park units or campsites which may be used in said park or campground. No license issued pursuant to this article is transferable or assignable.
The application for a mobile home park or commercial campground shall be accompanied by an investigation fee, as set from time to time by resolution of the Board of Trustees, which shall cover five park lots or campsites, plus a sum, as set from time to time by resolution of the Board of Trustees, for each additional park lot or campsite. The amount to be paid shall cover the required investigation, and if a license is subsequently issued, said sum shall be applied on account of license fee. However, in the event that a license is not issued, the investigation fee will be retained by the Village.
Application for the renewal of any mobile home park or commercial campground license issued pursuant to this article must be filed with the Village Clerk on or before the first day of December next preceding the expiration of said license. The application shall set forth in detail any fact or facts in variation with any fact or facts set forth in the original application. The application shall state that all facts not set forth in the renewal application remain unchanged. The procedure for obtaining a renewal license shall, in all other respects, be the same as set forth above for obtaining an original license. Upon approval of said application for renewal of the license by the Board of Trustees and upon the payment of the license fee, the Village Clerk shall issue a renewal license, which shall become effective upon the expiration of the prior license and continue for a period of one year. Such renewal license shall not be transferred or assigned.
Mobile home parks or commercial campgrounds existing in the Village of Norwood on the effective date of this article will become nonconforming parks or campgrounds and shall not be subject to § 200-40, General regulations, with the exception of Subsections J, K, N, S and T, which deal expressly with state and county health and safety requirements. However, any addition, extension or enlargement of an existing park or campground shall constitute a new mobile home park or commercial campground and shall be subject to all the provisions of this article.
A. 
Each parcel reserved for the accommodation of any mobile home shall be not less than 8,000 square feet with a minimum lot width of 60 feet measured at the front setback line.
B. 
Only one mobile home and only one utility shed or accessory building shall be permitted on each parcel.
C. 
Mobile homes considered for placement in the Village of Norwood shall not be less than 840 square feet as measured by their exterior floor area dimensions.
D. 
Each mobile home lot shall front on an interior roadway.
E. 
The minimum setback of every mobile home or other structure in a mobile home park or commercial campground from the nearest public right-of-way shall be 130 feet.
F. 
No mobile home or attachments thereto shall be located less than 12 feet from each side lot line, 10 feet from the rear lot line and 30 feet from the front lot line. Utility sheds or outbuildings as permitted under Subsection B above shall be located not less than 12 feet from either side lot line, 10 feet from the rear lot line and with a front setback from the park road edge or pavement line of 65 feet minimum.
G. 
Every mobile home park or commercial campground with 25 mobile homes or more shall have a recreational area or open space area for use by the occupants of the mobile home park or commercial campground. Such areas shall be centrally located as the topography and design of the park or campground permit. Such areas shall be not less than 400 square feet per mobile home lot in the park or campground. Such areas do not have to be contiguous.
H. 
A landscape plan shall be prepared and carried out which will assure the Planning Board that an appropriate planting of trees and shrubs and the installation of recreational facilities will be included in the park or campground design, including screening where necessary.
I. 
All public utilities, electric, gas, cable television and telephone lines shall be installed underground.
J. 
All fuel tanks on the mobile home property used for heating within a mobile home park or commercial campground shall be installed in accordance with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards.
K. 
Appropriately spaced fire hydrants shall be installed, or access to water sufficient for fire fighting as determined by local fire codes shall be available.
L. 
The maximum ground area for a utility shed or accessory building shall be 120 square feet, with a maximum height not to exceed the height of the mobile home on the same parcel. Such buildings shall not be used for sleeping or living purposes.
M. 
Foundations and anchoring of certain buildings.
(1) 
All utility sheds or outbuildings shall have adequate foundations conforming to the State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.
(2) 
It shall be the responsibility of the park or campground owner to secure structures covered in Subsection M(1) above.
N. 
Mobile homes shall have an approved connection to a public sewer system, when available, or a sewage disposal system as approved by the St. Lawrence County Health Department and other appropriate agencies as determined during site plan review. All plumbing installations shall be made in accordance with the requirements of the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.
O. 
No mobile home shall be located on a mobile home lot until the roadways, sanitary sewage disposal system, water supply systems and storm drainage system serving said mobile home lot have been installed in accordance with the approved development plan for the mobile home park or commercial campground.
P. 
No boats, campers, travel trailers, recreational vehicles or unregistered and unlicensed motor vehicles shall be parked or stored at any place within a mobile home park or commercial campground except in areas designated and approved for such storage as part of the site development plan approval.
Q. 
Each mobile home lot must have not less than two paved off-street parking spaces. Such parking spaces shall be connected to the entrance of the mobile home by a permanent sidewalk having a minimum width of 24 inches.
R. 
At least one service building shall be constructed in each mobile home park or commercial campground which shall be adequate to provide for the storage of all equipment, tools and materials necessary for the maintenance of the park or campground, and all such equipment, tools and materials shall be stored within said building when they are not in use.
S. 
All mobile homes shall have an electrical connection approved by the Board of Fire Underwriters or other electrical inspection agency.
T. 
Mobile homes and attachments thereto shall comply with the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.
U. 
The area between the base of the mobile home and the ground shall be enclosed with fireproof material, such as metal or aluminum, unless the mobile home is placed on a block wall foundation or a poured concrete foundation. This enclosing must be done within 30 days of the placement of the mobile home on the site.
V. 
No enclosure or addition shall be constructed, added on or attached to the exterior of any mobile home, with the exception of patios, carports or door porches, which shall not exceed eight feet in width.
No structure, enclosure, addition, vestibule, added room, carport, patio roof, utility shed, outbuilding or any such building shall be constructed or placed on the parcel or added to any mobile home without a building permit first obtained from the Village Code Enforcement Officer. Park or campground owners and/or operators shall apply for any and all permits. An exception is that winter vestibules constructed for the winter season and not to remain in place over six months need no building permit. All of the aforesaid structures and/or buildings shall be constructed according to the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.
Plans for all entrances to mobile home parks and commercial campgrounds to public highways shall be approved by the St. Lawrence County Highway Superintendent and the New York State Department of Transportation.
A. 
Every roadway within a mobile home park or commercial campaigned shall have a minimum pavement width of 22 feet for two-way traffic and a minimum right-of-way width of 50 feet of a hard and dust-free surface. The one-hundred-foot lot depth is not to include the right-of-way. If culs-de-sac exist, they shall have a minimum diameter of 70 feet.
B. 
Each roadway shall be named and noted upon signs at each roadway intersection. Each mobile home lot shall be assigned a permanent number, which shall be noted on the mobile home lot in a location clearly visible from the roadway.
C. 
Appropriate streetlighting shall be installed on interior roadways, with the minimum number of lights being one at each intersection of interior roadways with each other or with abutting public roads and at least every 200 feet where such intersections are more than 200 feet apart and at any curve of less than 135° in the roadway.
D. 
Every roadway within a mobile home park or commercial campground shall be maintained in good repair and shall allow uninhibited travel by occupants of the park and necessary fire, police, ambulance, public utility maintenance and snow removal.
The licensee shall, at all times, allow such persons as the Code Enforcement Officer, Board of Trustees member, Health Department Officer, police and/or any other authorized person to enter the park or campground to make any inspections as would be in the best interest of the Village.
The Board of Trustees may revoke any license to maintain and operate a park or campground when the licensee has been found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of violating any provision of this article. After the conviction and revocation, the license may be reissued within six months if the circumstances leading to the conviction have been remedied and the park or campground is operated and maintained in full compliance with this article, and provided that the license fee is paid.
This article does not repeal or impair conditions legally now existing or permits and licenses previously issued.
The issuance of a license shall not waive compliance with other statutes or laws. The issuance of a license pursuant to the provisions of this article shall not be deemed to waive compliance by the holder thereof, by the property owner or by an occupant of any mobile home with any statute of the State of New York or health regulations of the County of St. Lawrence. It shall be the owner's or operator's responsibility to see that each home unit is in compliance with this article.