Cross References — As to building official, ch. 500, art. II; as to electricity, ch. 515; as to flood control, ch. 415; as to solid waste, ch. 230; as to housing maintenance and occupancy code, ch. 520; as to sewers and water, chs. 705 and 710; as to utilities, ch. 700; as to planning and zoning, ch. 400.
State Law References — Manufactured home standards, §§700.010
to 700.115, RSMo.
[R.O. 2011 §20-1; Code 1977 §49.010]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have these
prescribed meanings:
Any vehicle, contraption or structure set or equipped to
be set upon wheels, and designed to be moved or propelled by being
towed, pulled, or carried along behind an automobile or other similar
vehicle and so constructed, equipped or furnished that the interior
of the same may be used as a place for the dwelling, living, sleeping
or housing of a human being.
A plot of ground within a trailer court designed for the
accommodation of one (1) automobile trailer consisting of not less
than one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet which shall be at
least twenty-five (25) feet wide and clearly defined.
Permitting, suffering or allowing an automobile trailer or
trailers to be parked, kept, stored, camped, maintained or to remain
upon any lot, parcel or tract of real property within the City of
Salem for any fee, charge, rent, price, or other valuable consideration
which in any way directly or indirectly emanates from or is paid by
the owner or occupant of such automobile trailer to the owner, occupant
or manager of such real estate.
A trailer coach which does not have a toilet and a bath or
shower.
A trailer coach that has a toilet and a bath or shower.
A trailer coach space which has sewer and water connection
designed to accommodate the toilet and a bath or shower in a trailer
coach.
Any person, persons, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
[R.O. 2011 §20-2; Code 1977 §49.020]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, renting, leasing,
operating, managing or occupying any lot, parcel or tract of real
property within the City of Salem to conduct, maintain or operate
a trailer court or mobile home park thereupon without first obtaining
a license therefor from the City Collector of the City of Salem.
[R.O. 2011 §20-3; Code 1977 §49.030]
A.
The annual
fee for each trailer space or mobile home space shall be five dollars
($5.00) with a minimum charge of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per year
per trailer court.
B.
The annual
license fees payable under provisions of this Section shall be due
and payable in advance on the thirtieth (30th) day of June of each
year, provided that the fees for licenses issued after the thirtieth
(30th) of June of any year shall be for the part of the year then
remaining, one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual fee for each month or
part thereof from date of issuance to the thirtieth (30th) day of
June thereafter.
[R.O. 2011 §20-4; Code 1977 §49.040]
A.
No license
shall be issued to any person to conduct, maintain or operate a trailer
court unless he/she shall have first produced to the Board of Aldermen,
in writing, a certificate wherein it shall be stated:
1.
The
maximum number of automobile trailers the trailer court will accommodate.
2.
The
lot, parcel or tract of real property whereon the trailer court is
or is to be set up now conforms to the regulations hereinafter prescribed.
3.
The
location of the established or proposed trailer court.
4.
It is
agreed that provisions of this Section, the laws of the State of Missouri
and the other ordinances of the City of Salem shall be fully complied
within the conducting, maintaining and operating of such trailer court.
Provided, in all cases, that no such license shall be issued unless
and until the Board of Aldermen shall have made an order directing
the City Collector to issue such license.
[R.O. 2011 §20-5; Code 1977 §49.050]
The Board of Aldermen may revoke any license issued under the
provisions of this Chapter upon proof of the violation of or the failure
to comply with any of the provisions of this Chapter, the laws of
the State of Missouri, or the other ordinances of the City of Salem
regulating, controlling or relating to health, sanitation, fire protection,
the public peace or public morality.
[R.O. 2011 §20-11; Code 1977 §49.060; Ord. No. 2802 §1, 10-5-1992]
A.
Automobile
trailers shall be so placed on each automobile trailer space that
there shall be a fifteen (15) foot clearance between automobile trailers
and no automobile trailer shall be located closer than five (5) feet
from any property line bounding the trailer court.
B.
Trailer
coach spaces are to be numbered and marked so as they can be identified
as to boundary lines.
C.
Trailer
park areas are to be lighted at night with lamps of not less than
one hundred (100) watts at intervals of not less than one hundred
(100) feet in any direction and located approximately fifteen (15)
feet from the ground.
D.
Topography
of site shall be such that slopes are moderate but steep enough to
permit rapid drainage of surface water during rains.
E.
The park
site, buildings and surroundings shall be maintained in a neat and
presentable manner.
F.
Sanitary
connections approved by the Division of Health for water supply and
sewage disposal shall be provided at each independent trailer coach
space.
G.
No person
occupying any automobile trailer parked, kept, stored, camped or maintained
upon any lot, parcel or tract of real property within the City of
Salem shall deposit, throw, spread, or dispose of any human filth
or excrement thereupon or upon any ground within the City of Salem.
H.
Garbage And Refuse. All garbage and refuse shall be stored
in tight metal cans with tight-fitting covers and shall be removed
from premises and disposed of as frequently as may be necessary to
prevent nuisance and unsightliness and be disposed of in a manner
approved by the Division of Health. Garbage containers are to be located
not farther than one hundred (100) feet from any trailer coach space.
I.
Each
trailer coach park shall be equipped with one (1) fire extinguisher
of soda and acid or water pump type, of two and one-half (2½)
gallons capacity or equivalent, in good working order for every ten
(10) trailer coach spaces and conveniently located not farther than
two hundred (200) feet from each trailer coach space.
J.
For the
purpose of the proper and efficient administration of this Chapter,
the person conducting, maintaining or operating a trailer park within
the City of Salem shall at all times keep a register or card system
wherein the name or names of the owner or occupant of such automobile
trailer shall be recorded together with his/her or their permanent
address or addresses, the license number of the automobile, if any,
pulling such trailer onto or into the trailer park, the hour, date,
month and year of his/her or their arrival and departure and such
register shall at all times be available for inspection by the Mayor,
Chief of Police or Building Inspector or Health Department.
[R.O. 2011 §20-12; Code 1977 §49.070; Ord. No. 2484 §1, 1-19-1981]
The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the keeping,
storing, parking or maintaining of one (1) automobile trailer by any
person upon his/her own lot, parcel or tract of real property within
the City of Salem. Provided however, that no person owning any lot,
parcel or tract of real property within the City of Salem, although
not engaged in conducting, maintaining or operating a trailer court
within the meaning of this Chapter, shall occupy or inhabit or permit,
suffer or allow any other person or persons to occupy or inhabit any
automobile trailer that may be parked, kept, stored or maintained
upon such real property unless such trailer is provided with and meets
all the sanitary requirements of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2011 §20-13; Code 1977 §49.080]
Any person conducting, maintaining or operating a trailer court
within the City of Salem shall at all times grant the Mayor, Chief
of Police, Building Inspector and Fire Chief and Division of Health
the right to inspect the premises upon which such trailer court is
located. It shall be the duty of the various named officials, upon
their finding and discovery of a violation or failure to comply with
the terms of this Chapter, to report such fact to the Board of Aldermen
in writing immediately and further to cause the violator or violators
to be arrested and prosecuted in the Municipal Court of the City of
Salem.
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Cross References — As to duties of building official,
§§500.100 and 500.110.
[R.O. 2011 §20-14; Ord. No. 2817 §§1 — 4, 8-2-1993]
A.
The Building
Inspector for the City of Salem shall inspect all automobile trailers
and automobile trailer parking spaces prior to utility services being
provided or connected thereto.
B.
The automobile
trailer and the automobile trailer parking space shall be in compliance
with all ordinances of the City of Salem, Missouri, regulating automobile
trailers and automobile trailer parking spaces.
C.
There
shall be an inspection fee of ten dollars ($10.00) for each inspection
made by the Building Inspector. Said fee shall be paid to the City
of Salem prior to utility services being provided or connected. There
shall be a separate fee of ten dollars ($10.00) for each inspection.
