This chapter shall be known and cited as the "Mobile Home Ordinance
of the Village of Albion."
This chapter is adopted in order to promote the health, safety, morals
and general welfare of the inhabitants of the Village of Albion by regulating
the occupancy and maintenance of mobile homes and mobile home parks.
This chapter establishes minimum standards for mobile home parks and
requirements for the design, construction, alteration, extension and maintenance
of mobile home parks and related utilities and facilities; authorizes the
issuance of permits for construction, alteration and extension and operation
of mobile home parks; authorizes the inspection of mobile home parks; limits
the use of mobile homes outside of mobile home parks; and fixes penalties
for violation.
A.
Words used in the present tense include the future; the
singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the singular; the
word "structure" shall include the word "building"; the word "used" shall
include "arranged," "designed," "constructed," "altered," "converted," "rented,"
"leased" or "intended to be used," and the word "shall" is mandatory and not
optional.
B.
GOVERNING BODY
MOBILE HOME
MOBILE HOME LOT
MOBILE HOME PARK
MOBILE HOME STAND
PERSON
SERVICE BUILDING
SEWER CONNECTION
SEWER RISER PIPE
STREET LINE
WATER CONNECTION
WATER RISER PIPE
WATER SERVICE PIPE
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
definitions shall be used in the interpretation and administration of this
chapter:
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion.
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the
traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more
in length or, when erected on a site, is 320 or more square feet and which
is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with
or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities
and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems
contained therein and shall be constructed in accordance with the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, Manufactured Home Construction and Safety
Standards, 24 CFR Part 3280, April 1, 1993.
A parcel of land for the placement of a single mobile home and the
exclusive use of its occupants.
A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned for
the placement of mobile homes, appurtenant structures or additions.
That part of an individual lot which has been reserved for the placement
of the mobile home, appurtenant structures or additions.
Any individual, firm, trust, partnership, public or private association
or corporation or other entity.
A structure housing sanitary, operational, office, recreational,
maintenance and other facilities built to conform to required standards.
Pipes, fittings and appurtenances from the drain outlet of the mobile
home to the inlet of the corresponding sewer riser pipe of the sewer system
serving the mobile home park.
That portion of the sewer lateral which extends vertically to the
ground elevation and terminates at a designated point at each mobile home
lot.
All measurement referring to public streets or highways shall be
made from the center line of said street or highway.
All pipes, fittings and appurtenances from the water riser pipe to
the water inlet pipe of the distribution system within the mobile home.
That portion of the water service pipe which extends vertically to
the ground elevation and terminates at a designated point of each mobile home
lot.
Consists of all pipes, fittings, valves and appurtenances from the
water main of the park distribution system to the water outlet of the distribution
system within the mobile home.
