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Ordinance 662 - Trailer Parks116 �µ \ ORDINANCE NO. 662 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA, REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION, USE, AND OPERATION OF TRAILER PARKS,,PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIDIATION THEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA: SECTION 1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE: The purpose of this Ordinance is to provide certain minimum standards, provisions, requirements and arrangements for sanitation, safety and use of materials for all Auto Trailer Parks and Auto Trailers on Private property. SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS: For the purpose of this Ordinance, certain terms used herein are defined as follows; All words used in the present tense shall include the future; all words in the plural number shall include the singular number, and all words in the singular shall include the plural number unless otherwise clearly indicated in the context. Any gender shall include other genders. (a) AUTO TRAILER includes the words "House Car" or "Camp Car" and shall be defined as any building or structure designed and/or used 6dr living or sleeping purposes and equipped with wheels to facilitate movements from place to place, and automobiles used for living or sleeping purposes. TRAILERS shall have the following requirements: 1. A State license for motor vehicles and attached State license plates, issued to the owner within the last current year. 2. Wheels shall be maintained permenently in place on the auto trailer axles for its immediate movement. (b) AUTO TRAILER PARK includes the words "Auto Trailer Camp" and shall be defined as any lot or parcel of land used or intended to be used for the accomodation of one or more auto trailers. ' (c) AUTO TRAILER UNIT includes the words "Auto Trailer Site" and shall be defined as a plot of land in an Auto Trailer Park used or intended to be used for the accomodation of not more than one (1) Trailer and not more than two (2) motor vehicles which are not auto trailers. (d) BUILDING shall be defined as any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any kind. (e) BUILDING DEPARTMENT shall be defined as the officer, department or agency of the City of Kalispell who is charged with the enforcement of the provisions pertaining to the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, movement, arrangement, or use of building or structure and the use of property with the City of Kalispell. (f) BUILDING INSPECTOR shall be defined as the Chief Building Inspector or any regularly authorized deputy. (g) ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR shall be defined as the Chief Electrical Inspector or any regularly authorized deputy. (h) PLUMBING INSPECTOR shall be defined as the Chief Plumbing Inspector or any regularly authorized deputy. (i) PARK SEWER shall be defined as a sewer constructed in any auto ' trailer park for the service of Auto Trailers and connected to the City sewer or in case there is no city sewer, in any street on which such auto trailer park abuts, to a septic tank as required by the Plumbing Ordinance of the City of Kalispell. 117 (j) HEALTH DEPARTMENT shall be defined as such Department created or established by authority of the City of Kalispell and entrusted with the regulation, control or supervision of all matters pertaining to the general health of the citizens of the City of Kalispell. (k) PERSONS shall be defined as any natural person, firm, association, or corporation. SECTION 3. AUTO TRAILERS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY: It shall be unlawful for any person to place, keep or maintain any auto trailer on any land within the City of Kalispell without the express permission of the owner of such land, and no person shall allow, suffer or permit any auto trailer to be placed, kept, or maintained on any land owned or controlled by him except in an Auto Trailer Park for which a permit to construct and establish has been issued by the Building Inspector and a license to operate has been issued by the License Bureau. It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, or other person having charge or control of any lot or tract of land in the City, other than a trailer park as herein defined, to permit any person to occupy for living or sleeping quarters or business purposes any trailer parked thereon; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any owner of a lot or tract of land from parking his own trailer for not more than one year thereon and living' therein while constructing a house, if proper sanitary facilities are provided as required by law. SECTION 4. STORAGE OF AUTO TRAILER BY OWNER: Nothing in this ordinance shall be deemed to prohibit the storage of one auto trailer on the home premises of its owner for any length of time when not used for living, sleeping, or business purposes; PROVIDED, that the owner of the trailer will call at the office of the City Health Department and sign a form to ' that effect. SECTION S. OTHER PERMITS REQUIRED: Permits issued under the terms of this Ordinance convey no right to erect any building, other than the accessory buildings.designated on the plot plan for the Auto Trailer Park, or to do any electrical work or to do any plumbing work. Regular building, electrical, plumbing, or other permits, as required by the provisions of the ordinance of the City shall be secured for all such work. Where no work is done under a permit within sixty (60) days after its issuance, it shall become null and void. SECTION 6. APPLICATION FOR BUILDING PERMIT: Applicant for a building permit to construct and establish an Auto Trailer Park shall file an application therefor with the Building Department, on a form to be furnished by said Department and filled in by the applicant. Complete information shall be filled in on the Building Permit application and such other information as the Building Inspector may reasonably require. A plot plan in duplicate of said property shall be filed by applicant with his application, drawn to a scale of not less than one eighth (1/8) of an inch per foot, showing the 16cation and dimensions of all the auto trailer units, roads, yard areas, all offices and accessory buildings, sewer connections, electric outlets, toilets, showers, and other essential requirements of this ordinance and other City ordinances involved. SECTION 7. ZONING: Subject to the provisions of this ordinance, Auto ' trailer parks may be established and maintained only in zones as are especially mentioned for Auto Trailer Parks in the text and maps of the zoning Ordinance and any amendments thereto. 118 M SECTION 8. AREA: Each Auto Trailer Unit in every Auto Trailer Park shall contain not less than six hundred and twenty five (625) square feet of ground area and shall not be less than twenty (20) feet in minimum width measured at right angles to the side lines thereof. The boundary lines of every Auto Trailer Unit shall be plainly and permanently marked, or otherwise indicated. SECTION 9. CLEAR SPACES: There shall be a clearance of not less than ten (10) feet between Auto Trailers or auto trailers and other buildings. Where trailers are placed on the same lot with a residential building, the yard area of such residential building shall be maintained as provided in the City Zoning Ordinance. There shall be a clearance of not less than five (5) feet between auto trailers and the interior property lines of an auto trailer court, and not less than three (3) feet from any driveway. There will be a setback clearance from the property lines of not less than five (5) feet. SECTION 10. ROADWAYS: Every Auto Trailer Park shall have access to a: public street either by abutting directly on such street or by means of a private road not less than twenty (20) feet wide, exclusive of parking areas, and such road shall be surfaced and so located that each and every auto trailer unit shall have direct access thereto. The entire area of every auto trailer park, excluding roadways, shall be th.oroughtly graveled, blacktopped or concreted, except those areas maintained with lawns and plants. SECTION ,11. AREAWAYS: There shall be an unobstructed, graveled or paved surface areaway, not less than four (4) feet wide, adjoining and surround- ing any buildings, except those areas maintained with lawns or plants. SECTION 12. SEWERS: On each and every Auto Trailer Unit there shAll be a connection to the Auto Park sewer, arranged so that the sinks or lavatories in any auto trailer may be readily connected thereto, and such connection shall be an arrangement approved by the plumbing inspector. Immediately after being placed in any auto trailer park every auto trailer shall have its sink or laliatory connected to said sewer or other approved sewage disposal by an approved air tight and gas tight connection. All sewerage other than a city sanitary sewer must be approved by the Health Department. Every trailer park shall have a cast iron, or other approved equivalent, main sewer, which shall comply with the rules and ordinances to govern sewers connected with the public sewer system of the City of Kalispell, and which shall not be less than four (4) inches in diameter. SECTION 13. WATER: On each and every Auto Trailer Unit there shall be an ample supply of water, as approved by local plumbing ordinance, from an approved water service for the use of the occupants thereof. Not less than one (1)'water outlet for each and every auto trailer unit. All such water outlets shall be adopted for hose connections. Where water is obtained from other than an approved culinary pipe line, the trailer park operator shall be required to submit one (1) water sample per month to the Health Department for bacteriological examination. SECTION 14. BUILDINGS: Office rooms for the keeping of the required records and accessory buildings for toilets, urinals, showers, slop sinks, launderies, and garbage enclosures shall be constructed according to the general require- ments of the building ordinance, zoning ordinance, fire regulation ordinances and garbage ordinances of the City. of Kalispell. FLOOR DRAINS: An approved type of floor drain shall be installed in all concrete floors in all rooms containing sanitary plumbing fixtures. Said floor drains shall be connected to the auto trailer court sewer. One outlet for water at or near each and every floor drain shall be installed. nm SECTION 15. PLUMBING FIXTURES: In every auto trailer park the following facilities shall be installed except a single trailer unit which has independent sanitary facilities and has access to laundry facilities in an adjacent building. 1. One (1) public toilet and one (1) stall shower for each sex, for every eight (8) auto trailer units or fraction thereof. 2. One (1) public urinal may be substituted to the extent of twenty-five per cent (25%) in men's section for every eight (8) auto trailer units or fraction thereof. 3. One (1) public lavatory for each sex for every eight (8) auto trailer units or fraction thereof. 4. One (1) double compartment laundry tray and one (1) slop sink for every thirty five (35) auto trailer units or fraction thereof; except where automatic machines are provided, laundry yards may be established and their location shall be adjoining the accessory buildings. Such laundry yards shall be constructed as to meet' the requirements of the Building Department. No laundry lines shall be allowed in the Auto Trailer units. SECTION 16. GARBAGE CANS: Every Auto Trailer Park shall be provided with one substantial covered galvanized metal garbage can for each trailer unit, centrally located on' the alley in an approved garbage can rack. SECTION 17. DISTANCE: No auto trailer unit shall be more than two hundred (200) feet from an accessory building or sanitary fixtures required by this ordinance to serve said auto trailer unit; except trailers with self-contained sanitary facilities. SECTION 18. WASH RACKS: In every auto trailer park of fifteen (15) sites or more where auto trailers or automobiles are washed or are to be washed, there shall be installed a wash rack, and no washing shall be done except on such wash rack. All such wash racks shall be paved with a continuous concrete floor slab not less than fifteen (15) feet by twenty five (25) feet by four (4) inches thick and all parts thereof shall slope towards an approved sand trap. For camps or less than fifteen (15) sites, the construc- tion of a wash rack shall be approved by the Building Department. SECTION 19. DRAINAGE: Every auto trailer park shall be located and constructed on -a well drained area, and such premises shall be properly graded so as to prevent the accumulation of storm or casual water. SECTION 20. ENCLOSURES PROHIBITED: No tents or other habitable enclosure shall be allowed in any auto trailer unit or any other location within an auto trailer park unless complying with City ordinances except that fire proof canvas roofs only may be installed with one (1) side or end fastened to one (1) auto trailer. SECTION 21. WHEELS: It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating, or occupying for living quarters any auto trailer within the City of Kalispell to remove or cause to have removed the wheels or any similar transporting device from said auto trailer, or to otherwise permenently fix it to the ground in a manner that would prevent the ready removal of ' said auto trailer. SECTION 22. ANIMALS: Dogs or other animals ahll meet the requirements of the Ordinance pertaining to such animals. SECTION 23. RENT OR LEASE: It shall be unlawful for any person to rent or lease, or cause to be rented or leased any land or auto trailer to any person to be used as living quarters within the City of Kalispell, except within a licensed trailer court. SECTION 24. ELECTRICAL WORK: That all electrical service be governed by the and conform with the City Ordinances. 120 SECTION 25. ELECTRIC LIGHTING: Every public toilet and every public urinal room shall be lighted from sunset to sunrise of the succeeding day. Such lighting shall be provided in am amount not less than one-half (z) watt per square foot of floor area in any such room. Every public bath, laundry room, sink and slop sink shall be supplied with lights which may be turned on by the person using such room. Every required roadway in any auto trailer park shall be adequately lighted from sunset to sunrise of the succeeding day. The lighting equipment shall. be such that not less than one hundred (100) watt lamps shall be provided for each one hundred (100) feet, linear, of roadway, or major fraction thereof or as otherwise directed by the City Electrical Inspector. SECTION 26. FIRE PROTECTION: Every Auto Trailer Park shall be provided. with not less than one (1) suitable extinguishet approved by the Department having jurisdiction as to location, type and number, and where there are more than two trailers, there shall be one additional fire extinguisher., SECTION 27. GAS WATER HEATERS: Every gas water heater or appliance used for the purpose of heating shall be an approved vented type appliance and shall comply with all applicable provisions of the Health and Safety Code and this Code. SECTION 28. SUPERVISION: (a) The owner or operator of every auto trailer park before allowing any auto trailers therein, shall file with the Health Department the name of the person who will be in continuous responsible charge of said park, and who is authorized to act for him. Any change in such person in charge will be immediately reported to the above mentioned Health Department. (b) In every Auto Trailer Park there shall be an office building in which shall be located the office of the person in charge of said park, The park register shall at all times be kept in said office. (c) It shall be the duty of the owner, operator or persott in charge of any auto trailer park: 1. To keep at all times a register of all persons staying in his park, which register shall be at all times open to inspection by City, State, and Federal Officers. Said register shall record the names and home address of all persons staying in said Auto Trailer Park, the date of their arrival, date of their departure, the license number of all auto trailer and automobiles in said park, the name of the State and County in which they are registered, and the trailer unit on which each is located. 2. To maintain said Park in a clean, orderly and sanitary condition at all times. 3. To require that all such Auto Trailers and Automobiles are located in their respective trailer units as required by the terms of this' Ordinance. 4. To require all toilets in every Auto Trailer in said Park to be sealed so that they cannot be used during the total time it shall remain in said park, unless through trap to approved sanitary sewer. 5. To require every plumbing fixture in any auto trailer -in said park ' to be connected to the park sewer during its entire stay in said park. 6. To see that all required lights are kept lighted as provided for 3n this Ordinance. 7. To see that garbage is drained and wrapped as required by ordinance and deposited in the garbage cans required by Section 16 of this Ordinance and see that all such garbage cans are collected, cleaned, and re -distributed as required by the Ordinances of the City of Kalispell. 121 S. Not to permit any domestic animal in said camp unless they meet the requirements of Ordinances pertaining to such. 9. To report promptly to the proper authorities any violation of law which may come to his attention. 10. To post in a water proof holder in a conspicious place in each trailer park a copy of this subsection, and the provisions of the Ordinances relating to the disposition of garbage. SECTION 29. APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT TO OBTAIN A LICENSE: Application for a permit to obtain a license for a trailer park shall be filed with the Health Department. Applications shall be in writing, signed by the applicant, and shall contain the following: (A) The name and address of the applicant. (B) The location and legal description of the trailer park. (C) The complete plan of the park showing compliance with this Ordinance. (D) Plans and specifications of all buildings and other improvements constructed or to be constructed within the trailer park. (E) Such further information as may be required by the Health Department to enable to determine if the proposed park will comply with legal requirements. The application and all accompanying plans and specifications shall be filed in triplicate. The Health Department, the Inspector of Buildings and the local enforcing agencies shall investigate the applicant and inspect the proposed plans and specifications. If the applicant is found to be of good moral character, and the proposed trailer park will be in compliance with all provisions of this Ordinance and all other applicable Ordinances or Statutes, the Health Department shall approve the application and upon completion of the park according to plans, shall permit the license to be issued by the proper licensing bureau. Upon application for a transfer of the license, the Health Department shall issue a permit to transfer if the law enforcing agencies shall report that the transferee is of good moral character. (F) That all trailer camps or parks shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year for the first ten (10) trailer spaces or fraction thereof, and $1,00 per yearfDr each additional trailer space, exceeding ten spaces. Said license to be issued and license fee paid to the City Treasurer, exptting December 31st of each year. SECTION 30. VIOLATION AND PENALTY: It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision or to fail to comply with any requirements of this ordinance. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance or failing to comply with any of its mandatory provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City jail for a period of not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which a violation of any provision of this ordinance is committed, continued, or permitted by such person. ' SECTION 31. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof. The City Council of the City of Kalispell, hereby declares that they would have passed this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one dr more section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof be declared invalid or unconstitutional. 122 SECTION 32. EXISTING TRAILER PARKS: One year from date of this Ordinance the issuance of a license to a new existing trailer park will depend on evidence of progressive physical compliance with this Ordinance and on full compliance within three (3) years; and upon the failure to comply, any existing trailer park shall be abated as a nuisance as provided by lam, except that trailer parks existing in areas before being annexed to the City may continue in that zone provided all other regulations are complied with. SECTION 33. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 34. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its passage and approval. APPROVED BY THE MAYOR AND PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, THIS 3rd DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1958. ATTEST: II. J. Hunt City Clerk APPROVED: J. E. Gustin Acting Mayor I, 11. J. Hunt, City Clerk of the City of Kalispell, Montana, do hereby certify that on the 4th day of February, 1958, I posted a copy of the foregoing ordinance in my office and the same remained posted for a period of five days and the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the ordinance as passed by the City Council. City Clerk of th6 City of Kalispell, Montana FBI