[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Mansfield
3-7-1949. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following things are determined, declared and recited to be true:
A.Â
The tendency of tent cities and trailer camps and other
such camping grounds is to attract a temporary nomadic congested population
living under conditions making difficult the enforcement of police and sanitary
regulations and is deemed to constitute a nuisance.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any site or tract of land occupied or used by one or more trailers
or tent camps or camp cars or available for such occupancy or use, with or
without charge, and shall include any building, structure, tent, camp, cottage
or enclosure used or intended for use as part of or in connection with such
trailer camp.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to maintain
any tent city or trailer camp or similar establishment at any place within
the limits of this Township.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed as to such inconsistency only.
This chapter shall take effect immediately upon final passage and publication
according to law.
[Amended 5-5-1988 by Ord.
No. 1988-11]
Any person, firm or corporation who violates any of the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding
$1,000 or to imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days
or to a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or to such combination
of punishments as the Municipal Judge may, in his or her discretion, deem
appropriate and just; and each violation of any of the provisions of this
chapter and each day the same is violated shall be deemed to be a separate
and distinct offense.
