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For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, unless from the particular context it clearly appears that some other meaning is intended:

Access road” means a private road which does not extend beyond the boundaries of a mobile and manufactured home park and which provides the principal means of access to abutting individual spaces and auxiliary buildings;

Certificate of approval” means a document issued by the building official certifying a tiny house on chassis’s compliance with applicable building codes and other laws and indicating it to be in a condition suitable for occupancy;

Certificate of occupancy” means a document issued by the building official certifying a building’s compliance with applicable building codes and other laws and indicating it to be in a condition suitable for occupancy;

Chassis” means the base frame structural component(s) on which is mounted the body of a tiny house. The base frame shall be structurally integrated with the tiny house;

Manufactured home” means a structure constructed on or after June 15, 1976, according to United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) standards, transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is eight feet (2,438 millimeters) or more in width or 40 feet (12,192 millimeters) or more in length or, when erected on site, is 320 square feet (30 square meters) or more, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes plumbing, heating and electrical systems. “Manufactured home” shall also include any structure which meets all the requirements of this definition listed above, except the size requirements, and has a manufacturer certificate required by HUD that complies with HUD standards for a manufactured home;

Mobile and manufactured home park” means any park, court, parcel or tract of land designed, maintained, intended or used for the purpose of supplying a location or accommodations for two or more units that includes mobile homes and/or manufactured homes, tiny houses, and/or tiny houses on chassis and includes all buildings used or intended for use as a part of the equipment thereof, whether or not a charge is made for the use of the park and its facilities. A mobile and manufactured home park does not include lots on which unoccupied mobile or manufactured homes are parked for the purpose of inspection and sale;

Mobile home” means a structure that was constructed before June 15, 1976, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight feet (2,438 millimeters) or more in width or 40 feet (12,192 millimeters) or more in length or, when erected on site, is 320 square feet (30 square meters) or more, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes plumbing, heating, and electrical systems;

Personincludes an individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation; whether tenant, owner, lessee, or licensee, or their heir or assign;

Play yard” means an area specifically set aside for the use of children, which area shall not be included within any mobile or manufactured home spaces;

Public street” means any street, road or highway of which the general public has the right of common enjoyment or which is publicly maintained;

Recreational vehicle” means a vehicle built on a single chassis that is 400 square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection, is designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light-duty truck, and is designed not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use;

Recreational vehicle park” means any park, court, parcel or tract of land designed, maintained, intended or used for the purpose of supplying a location or accommodation for recreational vehicles;

Space” means a plot of ground in a mobile and manufactured home park permitted on or after August 1, 2010, of not less than 3,000 square feet of space designed for the location of at least two automobiles and only one unit. “Space” means a plot of ground of a mobile and manufactured home park permitted prior to August 1, 2010, of not less than 1,800 square feet designed for the location of at least one automobile and only one unit;

Tiny house” means a dwelling that is 400 square feet or less in floor area excluding lofts and placed on a permanent foundation;

Tiny house on chassis” means a dwelling that is 400 square feet or less in floor area excluding lofts and is on a chassis with or without wheels. Exception: Recreational vehicles, self-propelled vehicles, and fifth-wheel trailers are not considered tiny houses on chassis;

Unit” means a mobile home or a manufactured home, or a tiny house or tiny house on chassis. (Ord. 20-02S(A) § 4, 2020; Ord. 10-10 § 4, 2010; Ord. 04-63 § 4, 2004; B.C.S. § 8.08.010; S.G.C. § 6.12.010.)