[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Wolcott 7-18-1967. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The regulations set forth herein are made to insure the development
of suitable plans for mobile home courts or house trailer camps, including
the provision for sewage disposal, water supply, garbage removal,
registration of occupants, inspection of facilities and other actions
deemed necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare
of the Village of Wolcott, New York.
A.
No mobile home, house trailer, camp or travel trailer shall hereafter
be used, located or moved, except as expressly permitted by and in
conformity with the regulations herein specified.
B.
A presently located trailer may be replaced by a newer or better
trailer by the present owner. Such transition must take place within
a period of 30 days.
[Added 10-20-1969]
The present tense shall include the future, the singular shall
include the plural and the plural the singular. The word "shall" is
always mandatory.
Certain words and terms used in this chapter are defined for
the purposes thereof as follows:
A portable structure for which the State of New York Department
of Motor Vehicles will issue a license to move on any public way,
having a usable floor area of not more than 1,100 square feet nor
less than 400 square feet, with or without its own motive power, equipped
for or used for living purposes, provided with complete sanitary facilities,
and mounted on wheels or designed to be mounted and transported, or
transported on a flatbed trailer.
Any lot on which two or more mobile homes or house trailers
are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such
accommodations.
The right-of-way line of a street, as indicated by dedication
or by deed of record.
A vehicle or portable structure less than 400 square feet
in floor area, equipped but not regularly used for sleeping, and which
may not have sanitary facilities.
A.
No mobile home shall be occupied in the Village of Wolcott outside
of an approved mobile home park for more than 48 hours, except upon
a special permit issued by the Village Board. Such permit shall be
issued for a period not to exceed 30 days and shall not be renewable
within the same calendar year.
B.
As an exception to Subsection A, above, a permit may be issued for parking and occupying a mobile home on land owned by the occupant or occupants during the construction of a house thereon for a period not exceeding 180 days. However, if material progress with house construction is not made within 45 days from the issuance of a permit, or if construction work ceases for a consecutive period of 45 days, such permit shall become void.
C.
No mobile home without complete sanitary facilities nor a camp or
travel trailer, as defined herein, shall be occupied within the Village
of Wolcott.
It shall be unlawful within the village for any person or persons
to construct or operate a mobile home park without first securing
a written license from the Village Board, and complying with the regulations
of this chapter.
A.
The application for such annual license, or the renewal thereof,
shall be filed with the Village Clerk and shall be accompanied by
a fee of $25. Thereafter, each mobile home shall be assessed on the
tax rolls of the Village against the mobile home park owners in accordance
with § 102 of the New York Real Property Tax Law. No other
fees shall be charged against the mobile home owner; provided, however,
that each mobile home is assessed and placed on the tax rolls, and
that the school, county, town, Village and state taxes have been paid
for the current year. In the event that each mobile home is not on
the tax rolls and the tax not paid for the current year, the mobile
home park owner shall pay a monthly fee for each month or any portion
thereof that each mobile home occupied a mobile home space, and the
monthly fee therefor shall be $5, which shall be paid at the commencement
of each month.
B.
The application for a license, or renewal thereof, shall be made
on forms prescribed by the Village and shall include the name and
address of the owner in fee of the tract. (If fee is vested in some
person other than the applicant, a duly verified statement by the
person that the applicant is authorized by him to construct or maintain
the mobile home park shall accompany the application.) Each license
or renewal thereof shall expire on the 31st day of December following
the issuance thereof.
C.
Any applicant for a mobile home park license shall state that he,
as agent or owner, shall be responsible for the proper maintenance
and upkeep of the proposed park, and shall furnish the following information:
A.
A mobile home park or house trailer camp shall have an area of not
less than 10 acres, and no mobile home or office or service building
shall be closer to the street line or other property line than 100
feet.
[Amended 7-20-1970]
B.
A mobile home park or house trailer camp shall be located on a well-drained
site suitable for the purpose with an adequate entrance road at least
20 feet wide.
C.
Individual mobile home lots shall have an area of not less than 6,000
square feet.
[Amended 7-20-1970]
D.
No mobile home or portion thereof shall be placed closer to any other
mobile home or a portion thereof than 30 feet.
[Amended 7-20-1970]
E.
The total number of mobile home lots shall not exceed six per gross
acre.
F.
Margins along the side and rear property line of the mobile home
park shall be densely planted with trees and shrubs for a depth of
not less than 25 feet.
G.
Each mobile home shall have an entrance platform of concrete or equivalent
construction to conform to the overall plan.
H.
Each mobile home park shall provide sanitary conveniences, services
and utilities, including water supply, sewage disposal and garbage
disposal, commensurate with the following:
(1)
Water supply. A sufficient supply of water obtained from the Village
of Wolcott water system shall be provided to each mobile home lot.
(2)
Sewage disposal. Waste from each mobile home shall be wasted into
the Village of Wolcott sewer system in a manner approved by the Village
Board.
(4)
Storage. A uniform building shall be provided of at least 300 cubic
feet and not more than 700 cubic feet for each mobile lot in the mobile
home park.
[Amended 7-20-1970]
(5)
Registration.
(a)
The licensee shall keep a record of all occupants of the park,
noting name and address of each occupant, license numbers of all units
and the state issuing such license.
(b)
The licensee shall keep a copy of the register available for
inspection at any time by any authorized person and shall not destroy
such a registry until the expiration of 12 months from the date of
the registration.
(6)
Health. It shall be the duty of the licensee to immediately notify
the Village Board of any communicable disease in the park.
(7)
Inspection. Before any park commences operation, the Chief of Police
shall make an inspection of the premises to determine that all requirements
of this chapter shall have been complied with and issue a certificate
of occupancy. No use shall be permitted until such certificate has
been issued.
(8)
Revocation or suspension of license.
(a)
The Board of Trustees shall have the authority to enter and
inspect for health, sanitary and other provisions of this chapter
any facility licensed hereunder, at any reasonable time.
(b)
If, upon inspection, it is found that the licensee has violated
any provision of this chapter, the Board of Trustees shall have the
power to suspend such license and order this mobile home removed or
the mobile home park closed after notice and an opportunity to be
heard.
(10)
Nonconforming mobile homes. Any mobile home which is situated so
as not to conform to the terms of this chapter shall not be replaced
on its site by any other mobile home.
A.
Any person, firm or corporation who violates, disobeys, neglects
or refuses to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall
be guilty of an offense and disorderly conduct and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $100 for each
offense in accordance with the provisions of § 93 of the
Village Law.
B.
Each week a violation is continued shall be deemed a separate offense.
