[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #540, § 1; Ord.
#720; 1958 Code § 26.1; Ord. #97-05]
As used in this section:
Shall mean and include camp cottages as they are commonly
known, tents, tent houses, house cars, auto camp cars, recreational
vehicles and trailers, used for, or adaptable to use for living quarters.
Shall mean any place where two (2) or more camping structures
are located, or any premises designed or intended for the purpose
of supplying to the public a location for a camping structure.
Shall mean any group of buildings, either connected or separated,
which shall be erected and maintained under the usual building restrictions
and maintenance of a "hotel" as defined in the Building Code of the
City, and containing auto storage accommodations, built according
to such "hotel" restrictions, for each unit of living accommodations.
Shall mean a section of ground in any encampment used, or
designed for use, as a location for a single camping structure.
[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #540, § 1; Ord.
#790; 1958 Code § 26.2; Ord. #97-05]
Group K occupancies, for the purpose of the Building Code of
the City, shall mean and include encampments, tourist camps, tourist
cottages, trailer coach camps or cottages, and the keeping of trailer
coaches within the City.
Group K occupancies shall not include, but shall specifically exclude, "motels" as defined in subsection 5-9.1 of this chapter.
[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #790; 1958 Code § 26.3]
The requirements of this section governing, controlling and
regulating auto camps, tourist camps, tourist cottages and the keeping
of trailer coaches, shall be considered additional to any other requirements
contained in this Code or in the Building Code[1] of the City, as well as additional to the requirement
of any other ordinance concerning buildings generally within the City.
[1]
Editor's Note: For adoption of Building Code, see subsection
12-1.1 of this Code.
[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #790; Ord. #70-012, § 1;
Ord. #74-06, § 1; 1958 Code § 26.4]
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, keep or maintain,
or to permit to be placed, kept or maintained, any trailer coach used
for human habitation upon any lot, piece or parcel of land within
the City, except in trailer camps; provided, however, that not to
exceed one (1) such trailer coach may be placed, kept or maintained
in the rear of any private residential building other than an apartment
house or hotel, as such are defined in the State Housing Act,[1] providing that such trailer coach is not placed closer
than ten (10') feet to any building or closer than five (5') to any
property line other than a public street or alley line. Such trailer
coach shall be used only for sleeping quarters, and none of the sanitary
and cooking facilities in or a part of such trailer coach shall be
used. Such trailer coach shall not be kept or maintained for sleeping
purposes as permitted herein for more than fifteen (15) days in any
three-month period, unless such time has been extended by action of
the City Council.
No motor vehicle, trailer, coach, camper or any device designed
to be carried upon or drawn by any vehicle, whether such device is
upon, attached to or detached from any vehicle, shall, while parked
or placed upon any City street, or street open to the public within
the corporate limits of the City, be used for the purpose of sleeping,
cooking or using of the sanitary facilities therein.
Temporary travel trailer visits may be allowed in parking lot
areas westerly of Freeway 80 in the City upon obtaining a permit therefor
from the City Council; such permit shall set forth conditions as the
Council feels reasonable and necessary to preserve the peace, health
and sanitation of the City. The Council may require from applicant
a permit fee to reimburse City for costs of administration and enforcement.
[1]
Editor's Note: As to State Housing Act generally, see H. &
S. C. A., §§15000 to 17902.
[Ord. #490, § 1; Ord. #790; 1958 Code §§ 26.5
to 26.13; Ord. #92-05, § 6; Ord. #97-05]
a.
Permit to Establish and Maintain. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or maintain, upon any property owned or controlled by him, an encampment in the City, unless there exists a valid permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 3 of the Uniform Building Code, adopted by subsection 12-1.1 of this Code.
The application for such permit, in addition to the requirements specified in Chapter 3 of such Building Code, shall be accompanied by plans of the proposed encampment, showing the location of all buildings, driveways, toilet facilities, showers, laundry facilities, slop sinks, hydrants and other improvements.
A permit fee as is set forth in the City of Albany Master Fee
Schedule shall be charged before any such permit shall be issued,
and a renewal fee shall be paid each year during existence of such
permit and in the amount as is set forth in the City of Albany Master
Fee Schedule.
The approval of the City Council shall be necessary before the
bureau of buildings and inspections shall grant a permit under this
subsection. For this purpose a public hearing shall be held and all
persons whose names appear on the assessment rolls of the City as
owners of property within three hundred (300') feet of the property
sought to be used as an encampment shall be notified by mail of the
date and place of such hearing.
b.
Record of Guests. Every encampment shall maintain a manager in charge
thereof. Such manager shall require all tourists or other persons
using such encampment to register in a book kept for the purpose.
He shall also keep a record of the name, address and car license number
of each occupant of such encampment, which record shall at all times
be open to inspection by the Police Department.
c.
Limitation on Residence. It shall be unlawful for any person, except
the manager and his bona fide employees, to remain or live in any
encampment for more than fifteen (15) days in any three (3) month
period, and it shall be unlawful for any encampment permittee or his
agent to permit any person to remain in the encampment under the control
of such permittee or his agent longer than the period herein allowed.
d.
Plumbing and Sanitary Requirements. Every encampment maintaining
permanent structures for living quarters shall provide each unit so
improved with at least one (1) toilet, one (1) bathtub or shower,
one (1) wash basin and one (1) kitchen sink.
All encampment units which are not improved with permanent structures
for living quarters shall be provided with a minimum, for each sex,
of one (1) toilet and one (1) bathtub or shower for every three (3)
units or fraction thereof. In addition thereto, there shall be provided
one (1) urinal for every three units. Such toilets and urinals shall
not be more than two hundred (200') feet from the unit served by them.
A two (2) compartment laundry tub, a slop sink and a wash basin, with
running water shall be provided for every five (5) units or fraction
thereof.
No dry or chemical closets shall be installed or used in any
encampments within the City and all such closets shall be sealed while
inside the City limits. A sufficient number of tightly-covered metal
garbage cans shall be provided in all encampments.
e.
Sanitation Generally. Every encampment and all structures therein
shall be constructed and maintained at all times in a thoroughly sanitary
condition.
f.
Lights. Every encampment shall be provided with adequate means of
lighting the same at night, and all toilets and baths shall be provided
with lights which shall be kept lighted from one-half (1/2) hour after
sunset until one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise.
g.
Stoves, Fuel and Fire Extinguishers. All stoves and fuel used in
any encampment for cooking or heating purposes shall be of a type
approved by the Fire Marshal. There shall at all times be maintained
in every encampment at least one (1) approved fire extinguisher for
every three (3) units.
h.
General Plan of Camp Site, Location of Units. Every encampment shall
be bordered around the boundary lines by an ornamental tight fence,
or closely-grown hedges, not under six (6') feet in height, as approved
by the Building Inspector. No gate opening shall be constructed in
the fence adjoining any property without the written permission of
the owner of such property. All the units shall be grouped in blocks
abutting driveways or courts of not less than thirty (30') feet in
width, giving easy access to all units. No camping structures shall
be located within five (5') feet of the unit side line nor within
thirty (30') feet of a City street.
