[Ord. No. 95-146 §1, 9-27-1995; Ord. No. 01-113 §1, 9-26-2001]
Whether of a temporary or permanent nature, every campground
or travel trailer park as defined by the Unified Development Ordinance,
campsite, building, group of buildings or other structure, or any
field, playground or other open ground kept, used, maintained, advertised
or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations
are furnished for pay for any form of consideration or at no charge
to transients, tourists, or persons traveling by automobile or other
mode in which one (1) or more campsites or sleeping areas are supplied
for the accommodation of such guests, whether furnished or unfurnished,
with or without meals, shall for the purpose of this Chapter be deemed
a "tourist camp", except that in no circumstance
shall this Chapter apply to permanent or temporary non-motorized structures
containing five (5) or more sleeping areas for rent, or to any charitable
organization providing accommodations for the homeless or impoverished
residents of the County.
[Ord. No. 95-146 §2, 9-27-1995; Ord. No. 16-054 §11, 7-25-2016]
No tourist camp shall be operated, maintained or conducted without a permit issued by the Director of the Division of Building and Code Enforcement of the Department of Community Development pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter. Except as set out in Section 610.040, any tourist camp open and operating without such a permit shall be closed or fined or both.
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Editor's Note—Ord. No. 13-050 §7, adopted June
28, 2013, repealed section 610.025 "no permits issued to tax-delinquent
applicants or property owners" in its entirety. Former section 610.025
derived from Ord. No. 13-001 §7, 1-3-2013.
[Ord. No. 95-146 §3, 9-27-1995; Ord. No. 01-113 §1, 9-26-2001]
A tourist camp established for a specific event shall not be
exempt from the provisions of this Chapter or from the Unified Development
Ordinance.
[Ord. No. 95-146 §4, 9-27-1995; Ord. No. 16-054 §11, 7-25-2016]
No owner or manager of a tourist camp established after September
27, 1995, shall lease or let the premises until the camp shall have
been inspected and approved for such purpose by the St. Charles County
Division of Building and Code Enforcement of the Department of Community
Development. Tourist camps in existence at the effective date of this
Chapter, September 27, 1995, shall have notice of this Chapter mailed
to them individually and shall have one (1) hundred twenty (120) days
from such effective date to apply for the permit required by this
Chapter. No tourist camp without a permit shall be allowed to operate
one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of this Chapter
unless a permit shall have been issued.
[Ord. No. 95-146 §5, 9-27-1995; Ord. No. 16-054 §11, 7-25-2016]
The St. Charles County Division of Building and Code Enforcement
of the Department of Community Development shall establish such conditions
for the issuance of the permit as are necessary for the protection
of the public health and safety and these conditions shall, at a minimum,
contain a plan for the provision of adequate security, traffic control
and sanitary measures. The plan developed by the Division of Building
and Code Enforcement of the Department of Community Development will
set out in objective standards the number of security staff, bathrooms,
road access requirements and parking spaces based on the applicant's
estimate of possible crowd size at the tourist camp, and may establish
rules for incremental increases in these measures where the tourist
camp varies in the number of users. The Division of Building and Code
Enforcement of the Department of Community Development shall publish
these standards within sixty (60) days of the passage and approval
of this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 95-146 §6, 9-27-1995]
A.
Any
owner or manager of a tourist camp at which the capacity established
by permit is exceeded by twenty-five percent (25%) shall be subject
to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day nor
more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per day for each day that
the violation occurs or no more than ninety (90) days imprisonment,
or both fine and imprisonment. Violations continuing more than two
(2) days shall be cause for revocation of the permit to operate and
legal action to shut the tourist camp.
B.
Other
violations of this Chapter shall be punishable by a fine of not less
than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars
($500.00) for each and every day that the violation occurs.
[Ord. No. 95-146 §7, 9-27-1995]
The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to any "tourist camp" as defined herein that holds a license pursuant
to Chapter 315, RSMo.
[Ord. No. 95-146 §8, 9-27-1995]
Enforcement of this Chapter shall be the responsibility of the
County Counselor.
