[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Northport
6-6-1972 by L.L. No. 5-1972 (Ch. 77 of the 1966 Code). Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Northport finds that the improper
use of trailers and campers for living purposes in the Village of Northport
is detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of its residents, causes
unsanitary conditions and creates a nuisance.
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined as
follows:
Not only a self-contained and self-propelled vehicle used or intended
to be used as a conveyance upon the public streets and designed in such a
manner as to permit the occupancy thereof by one or more persons as a place
for sleeping, eating and general living, irrespective of whether or not the
said vehicle is used actually for said purposes, but also any structural body
not having wheels but which may be slid onto the body of a truck, attached
thereto and transported as an integral part of said truck and designed in
such a manner as to permit the occupancy thereof by one or more persons as
a place for sleeping, eating and general living, irrespective of whether or
not the said vehicle is used actually for said purposes. In addition, a camper
is also intended to include a vehicle as heretofore described or a structural
body as heretofore described and also used or intended to be used for the
transportation or storage of goods, materials and other tangible personal
property only and not designed for sleeping, eating and general living.
An individual, a partnership, an association or a corporation.
Any vehicle used or intended to be used as a conveyance upon the
public streets and designed in such a manner as to permit the occupancy thereof
by one or more persons as a place for sleeping, eating and general living
irrespective of whether or not the said vehicle is used actually for said
purposes. This definition is intended to include not only those vehicles having
two or more wheels and hitched, hooked or attached in some other manner to
a self-propelled vehicle such as an automobile or truck, but also those vehicles
from which the wheels have been removed and which are either permanently or
semipermanently attached to the ground and hooked into one or more public
utilities such as gas, electricity, water and sewer. In addition, a trailer
is also intended to include a vehicle designed in such a manner as to be hooked,
hitched or attached in some other manner to a self-propelled vehicle such
as an automobile or truck and used or intended to be used for the transportation
or storage of goods, materials and other tangible personal property only and
not designed for sleeping, eating and general living.
A.
Trailers used or intended to be used in business and
commerce for the transportation or storage of goods, materials and other tangible
personal property and trailers used or intended to be used as a temporary
office during the period of construction are not included in the above definition
of "trailer."
B.
Further, trailers used or intended to be used temporarily
for educational or convention use also are not included in the above definition
of "trailer."
C.
The definition of "camper" is not intended to include
a commercial truck, panel truck or other such vehicle.
The use of a trailer or camper for living purposes as heretofore stated
is prohibited within the jurisdictional limits of the Village of Northport.
The parking of a trailer or camper overnight upon any street within
the jurisdictional limits of the Village of Northport is prohibited, except
by permit which shall be issued by the Chief of Police of the Village of Northport,
at his discretion. The aforesaid permit may be issued to those property owners
or their agents whose property abuts on that portion of the street upon which
overnight parking of a trailer or camper is sought to be permitted. The Chief
of Police of the Village of Northport shall consider the size of the trailer
or camper and the trafficability of the street upon which a permit for overnight
parking is sought, along with the proposed duration of the requested permit
for overnight parking.
An unoccupied trailer or camper may be parked or stored upon any private
property within the jurisdictional limits of the Village of Northport; however,
in no case shall the trailer or camper be made immobile by the removal of
wheels, nor shall the trailer or camper be permanently affixed to the private
property.
The Board of Trustees is authorized to approve the temporary parking
of trailers and campers for the purpose of emergency repairs to the same.
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this chapter,
upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine in an amount not exceeding
the sum of $250 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 days, or both.
Further, each day that a violation is permitted to exist shall be considered
a separate offense.
