[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Sayre 12-18-2000 by Ord. No. 798. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any vehicle used or arranged to be used for living or sleeping,
mounted on wheels or arranged to be mounted on wheels or arranged
to be movable and propelled either by its own power or drawn by another
power-driven source or vehicle.
Any vessel or craft designed or used to transport person(s)
or cargo on the surface of the water. The term shall include a sailboat,
motorboat and rowboat.
A separate vehicle designed for human habitation and which
can be attached or detached from a pickup truck.
A vehicular, portable dwelling structure designed to be used
for recreational purposes. This includes a travel trailer, so identified
by the manufacturer; a pickup camper; a folding tent trailer; and
a motorized camper where the camping portion is an integral part of
the self-propelled vehicle.
A self-contained vehicle designed for human habitation, with
its own motive power and with a passageway from the body of the home
to the driver's and front passenger's seats.
A boat, camper, camper-trailer, motor home, trailer, automobile
trailer or house car.
A vehicle without motive power designed for carrying persons
or property on its own and to be drawn by a vehicle with motive power.
The term "trailer" shall include, but shall not be limited to, horse
trailer, boat trailers and ski-mobile trailers.
No person, firm or corporation shall park overnight
or store a recreational vehicle upon any roadway, street or highway
in any residential district within the Borough of Sayre.
It shall be unlawful to occupy any camper-trailer,
automobile trailer, house car, boat, trailer, camper, motor home or
other recreational vehicle for living or sleeping purposes or to cause
any such vehicle to be connected to electric, water, gas and use the
sanitary sewer facilities of the vehicle without properly disposing
of the sewage at an approved sanitary sewer facility. However, permission
to occupy any such recreational vehicle for living and sleeping purposes
and to connect such vehicle to electric, water, gas and properly dispose
of the sanitary sewage must be requested within 24 hours of the occupancy
and may be granted by the Code Enforcement Officer or his designee
for a period not to exceed 45 days.
No recreational vehicle shall be parked or stored
by any person, firm or corporation in any residential district front
yard. The front yard shall include the entire area extending beyond
the front line of the building, lot line to lot line, except for the
driveway area where the recreational vehicle may be parked only if
it is done in a manner that will not create a traffic hazard for the
neighboring property.
No recreational vehicle shall be parked or stored
by any person, firm or corporation in any residential district within
10 feet of any adjoining property owner boundary line. This prohibition
would also include a driveway that does not provide at least a ten-foot
setback from the adjoining property owner.
A.
Any person committing an offense against any provision
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a violation
pursuant to a punishable fine not exceeding $600 or by imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this chapter
shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate
and distinct offense hereunder.
B.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision
of this chapter shall be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction,
be fined no less than $50 nor more than $600 for each offense, and
a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or
on which a violation occurs or continues.
