Chapter 10.28
TRAILER HOUSES
Sections:
10.28.030 Parking regulations – Permit.
10.28.040 Property owners allowing parking without permit prohibited.
10.28.060 Penalty for violation.
10.28.010 Purpose of chapter.
This chapter, and the enforcement thereof, is deemed expedient to maintain the peace, good government and welfare of the city and its trade, commerce and manufacture, and necessary as a sanitary measure and for the proper safeguarding of the public health, safety and morals. (1958 Code § 2.12.010).
10.28.020 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
A. “Chief of police” means the chief of police of the city.
B. “Person” means person, firm, corporation, partnership or association.
C. “Trailer camp” means any site, lot, field or tract of ground upon which two or more trailer coaches are placed, and includes any building, structure, tent, vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the equipment of such camp.
D. “Trailer coach” means any vehicle or structure used, or maintained for use as a conveyance upon highways or city streets, so designed and constructed as to permit occupancy thereof as a temporary dwelling or sleeping place, for one or more persons, having no other foundation than wheels or jacks. This definition shall not be interpreted as applying to equipment owned and operated by the armed forces of the United States. (1958 Code § 2.12.020).
10.28.030 Parking regulations – Permit.
It is unlawful for the owner, operator or lessee of any trailer coach, or any person in possession thereof:
A. To park or cause or permit the same to stand or to be upon any public street, avenue, park, alley or any other public place within the corporate limits of the city for more than eight hours in any three day period;
B. To park, or cause or permit the same while used for living and/or sleeping quarters, to stand, or be upon any private property within the corporate limits of the city, except in a trailer camp duly licensed to be operated as such by the city, and fully complying with the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health governing sanitation; provided, however, that a trailer coach may be lawfully parked for use and occupancy upon private property situate within the corporate limits of the city for a period of not more than 24 hours in case the person in possession thereof has first obtained from the chief of police a written permit therefor, and from the owner or owners of such private property written consent to such parking. (1958 Code § 2.12.030).
10.28.040 Property owners allowing parking without permit prohibited.
It is unlawful for the owner, person in possession or having control of any private property situate within the corporate limits of the city to permit a trailer coach when at any time used for commercial, living and/or sleeping quarters, to be parked on such private property, unless and until the person in possession of such trailer coach has exhibited to such owner, person in possession or having control of such private property, a written permit therefor, signed by the chief of police. (1958 Code § 2.12.040).
10.28.050 Removal of wheels.
Any removal or partial removal of wheels of a trailer coach, except for temporary purposes of repair, or other action to attach a trailer coach to the ground by means of posts, piers, foundation or skirting, subjects the trailer coach to the requirements of the building code of the city, as well as this chapter. (1958 Code § 2.12.050).
10.28.060 Penalty for violation.
Any person found guilty of violating any provision of this chapter shall be punished as provided in Chapter 1.08 EMC. (Ord. 1079 § 2, 1973; 1958 Code § 2.12.060).