[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of
the Town of East Greenwich as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Animals — See Ch. 23.
Building construction — See Ch. 38.
Construction in flood hazard areas — See Ch. 113.
Solid waste management — See Ch. 212.
Zoning — See Ch. 260.
STATE LAW REFERENCES
Licensing of trailer coach parks — See
Public Laws of 1954, Ch. 3330.
Licensing of recreational facilities — See
R.I.G.L. § 23-21-1 et seq.
Recreational Vehicle Parks and Campgrounds Act — See
R.I.G.L. § 32-7-1 et seq.
[Adopted 6-22-1993 by Ord. No. 595 as
Secs. 22-1 to 22-8 of the 1993 Code]
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
words and terms in this article are used in the sense given them in
the following definitions:
Any portable structure, mobile home, so-called, or vehicle
designed to be drawn by vehicles, or self-propelled and occupied as
a dwelling or used for sleeping purposes. Notwithstanding the removal
of wheels from, or any other alteration of, any such structure, mobile
home or vehicle, or the installation thereof on a foundation, such
structure, mobile home or vehicle shall remain a trailer for all purposes
hereof.
Any parcel of land upon which two or more trailers, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located under Article II of this chapter, whether or not a charge is made therefor.
No person shall locate any trailer either for
storage or for use as living quarters on any land in the Town, except
in a trailer or automobile tourist park, without first obtaining the
written permission of the owner of the land and a parking license
from the Town Council.
A parking license required by this article will
be issued by the Town Council, subject to the following terms and
conditions:
A.
Where an owner of such a trailer desires to use his
trailer for storage purposes, such a license may be issued for a period
not to exceed one year. The license may be renewed, provided that
there has been no violation of state law or any ordinance of the Town.
B.
Where an owner of such a trailer desires to use the
trailer for occupancy or living quarters, such a license will be issued
for a period not to exceed 90 days for the following reasons:
The Town Council shall establish fees for licensing
the parking of such trailers.[1]
No parking license will be issued for a trailer
to be used for occupancy or living quarters until the sanitary facilities
and conveniences have been approved by the Department of Health of
the state, and the license shall be immediately revoked upon the occupants
failing to maintain sanitary facilities satisfactory to the State
Department of Health or upon refusing the Department of Health of
the state an opportunity for inspection.
No trailer used for occupancy or living quarters
shall be located within 15 feet of a house or other building located
on land or premises, nor within 10 feet of any property line, nor
within 50 feet of a street.
No more than one trailer shall be permitted
on any one lot, as defined by the zoning laws of the Town.[1]
Every person violating the provisions of this
article shall be fined not more than $100, and each day's continuance
of a violation shall constitute a separate offense.
[Adopted 6-22-1993 by Ord. No. 595 as
Secs. 22-31 to 22-63 of the 1993 Code]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall be defined as follows:
A trailer park in existence on June 24, 1954.[1]
Any river, pond, lake, canal, railroad, levee, embankment,
fence or hedge.
Trailer coach park.
Any portable structure or vehicle designed to be drawn by
automobiles or other vehicles and occupied as a dwelling or used for
sleeping purposes by one or more persons. Also included in this definition
is any automobile, truck, bus or other vehicle designed, built, altered
or adapted to be occupied as a dwelling or used for sleeping purposes
by one or more persons.
Any plot of ground or parcel of land upon which two or more
trailer coaches, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located,
regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation.
A parcel or plat of land within a trailer coach park occupied
or designed to be occupied by one trailer coach.
All complaints pursuant to this article shall
be brought and prosecuted by the Building Inspector and the Chief
of Police.
It shall be unlawful to operate a trailer park
without first obtaining a license from the Town Council.
All applications for a license to operate trailer
parks shall be made to the Town Council in writing on blanks provided
for this purpose and shall contain the applicant's name, date, legal
address, the maximum number of trailer coach spaces in the park, the
maximum number of trailer coach spaces to be operated and all other
information requested by the Town Council.
A complete up-to-date plan of the entire trailer
park layout shall accompany any application for a license to operate
a trailer park. The plan shall be used by the Town Council to determine
the number of trailer coaches for which the applicant may be licensed.
The license required by this article to operate a trailer coach park
shall state the maximum number of trailer coach spaces to be operated
in the park.
After receiving an application for a license
to operate a trailer park, the Town Council shall order the Building
Inspector to inspect the trailer park and report his findings and
advice to it before the license required by this article is granted.
All violations of this or any other applicable
codes or laws must be corrected before a trailer park license required
by this article or a renewal is granted.
The Building Inspector shall submit records
of all warnings issued by him to the operator and records of all violations
of this or any other applicable law and their correction or disposition
to the Town Council before the trailer park license required by this
article may be granted.
The trailer park license required by this article
shall be good for one year from January 1 of each year at 12:01 a.m.
and shall expire at 12:00 midnight on December 31 of the same year.
The fee for a license to operate a trailer park shall be set from time to time and may be found in the comprehensive fee schedule in Chapter 93, Fees, whether occupied or not. The fee shall be due and payable upon the granting of the license to operate, payable in advance for one year. This fee is payable whether the trailer park is occupied or not.
The license certificate shall be conspicuously
posted in the office or on the premises of the trailer coach park
at all times.
It shall be unlawful to construct, change, alter
or add to any existing trailer park without first obtaining a construction
or alteration permit from the Town Council.
A.
A proposed complete trailer coach park plan, showing
streets, lots, boundaries, location of utility buildings, electric
power or light poles, recreational areas, walkways, office, stores,
service stations, and all other buildings connected with the operation
of a trailer park, shall accompany any application to locate and construct,
change, alter or add to any existing trailer park.
B.
Applications for the construction or alteration permit
required by this article shall be submitted to and granted by the
Town Council.
C.
The proposed plans required by this article shall
be inspected by and receive the approval of the Town Engineer and
Building Inspector before a permit shall be granted.
D.
The proposed plans shall comply with all provisions
of this chapter and all other applicable laws and shall be filed and
kept in the office of the Building Inspector.
E.
The Town Council may require any further information
it may deem necessary to enable it to arrive at a decision to grant
or not grant the permit.
A.
All trailer park operators shall keep a record containing
the following: The name of the legal owner of the trailer coach and
the lessee's name, if any; names of all occupants; number of school-age
children; trailer coach license number, make, size, year and model
of same; dates of arrival and departure and the number of the trailer
coach lot where the trailer coach is berthed; registration number
of any and all motor vehicles in possession of the trailer coach owner
and occupants. Entries are to be made the day a trailer coach is berthed
in the park. The record must be signed by the owner or lessee of the
trailer park.
B.
The records shall be open for inspection by all proper
authorities.
The park shall be located on a well-drained
site, properly graded to ensure rapid drainage and freedom from stagnant
pools of water.
An area for recreational purposes, within or
adjoining the boundaries of a trailer coach park, shall be provided
by the operator and shall be equal to at least 5% of the total land
area contained in the park. The shape of such area shall be that usual
for such purposes. The condition of this area and the equipment thereof
shall be maintained in good repair and in a safe condition at all
times by the operator.
Individual trailer coach parking lots shall
consist of a minimum of 1,500 square feet and be at least 30 feet
wide and 50 feet long, clearly defined and permanently numbered.
Trailer coaches shall be harbored on each lot
so that there will be at least a ten-foot clearance between all trailer
coaches.
A.
All trailer coach spaces shall abut upon a street
of not less than 20 feet in width, which shall have unobstructed access
to a public street or highway.
B.
All streets and parking spaces shall be constructed
of not less than six inches of compacted gravel and shall be oiled
or treated in such a manner as to make them dustless.
C.
All streets shall be well marked in the daytime and
well lighted at night.
D.
All streets shall be maintained in good repair at
all times.
Parking of all vehicles shall be off-street
parking, unless the streets are of sufficient width to provide for
curb parking with a lane at least 12 feet in width between the parked
vehicles.
Each trailer coach parking lot shall have an
all-weather, hard-surfaced or wooden walk extending from the street
a distance sufficient to permit access to all doors on one side of
any trailer coach parked on that lot, and the walk shall have a minimum
width of 24 inches.
A.
An electrical outlet supplying at least 110 AC volts
and individually fused shall be provided for each trailer space and
shall be located at least six feet above the ground.
B.
Service wires from individual outlets to each trailer
coach shall be elevated at least eight feet above the ground along
their entire distance except where service wires leave the outlet
at the meter box and where they enter the trailer coaches, unless
the service is by conduit or underground cable.
C.
All electrical wiring, apparatus or appliances for
furnishing light, heat or power shall be in strict conformity with
approved methods and practices for safety to life and property. Compliance
with the National Electrical Code, as published by the National Board
of Fire Underwriters, shall be prima facie evidence of approved methods.
Inspection of wiring, apparatus or appliances shall be made by the
Electrical Inspector of the Town.
A.
Each trailer lot shall have an individual underground
water supply controlled by an underground nonfreezing shutoff.
B.
The quality of the water supply, if from other than
a public supply, shall be subject to state inspection and approval.
C.
An adequate supply of hot water and cold running water
shall be provided at all times in the utility buildings for bathing,
washing and laundry purposes.
Every trailer coach park shall be equipped at all times with one fire extinguisher kept in good working order and which is approved by the Fire Department of the Town, for every 10 trailer coach spaces and located not farther than 200 feet from each trailer coach lot. No open fires shall be permitted except as provided in Chapter 47, Burning, Open, of the Code of the Town of East Greenwich. No fires shall be left unattended at any time.
A.
Unless connected with community sewers, each trailer
coach lot shall have a cesspool or a septic tank conforming with the
regulations of the State Health Department.
B.
Cesspool or septic tanks for all buildings connected
with the operation of the park shall be of sufficient size and construction
so that no seepage from such cesspools or septic tanks shall ever
appear above or on the ground around the cesspools or septic tanks,
and they shall comply with the local Building Code.
C.
Each individual trailer coach lot cesspool, septic
tank or sewer shall be provided with an entrance to it, constructed
in accordance with the local Building Code.
D.
All connections between the trailer coach and the
cesspool shall be properly vented and shall be made by or under the
direction of the operator of the trailer park.
A.
Tightly covered metal garbage and rubbish containers
shall be provided in quantities adequate to permit the depositing
of all garbage and rubbish. Such receptacles shall be kept in a sanitary
condition at all times.
B.
Garbage and rubbish shall be collected and removed
from the premises as frequently as may be necessary to ensure that
they do not overflow, give off offensive odors or become a menace
to the health of the community or park.
A.
Each trailer park shall provide suitably equipped
service buildings; the buildings shall be permanent structures complying
with all applicable laws regulating buildings, electrical installation,
plumbing, heating and sanitation systems. The buildings shall be well
lighted at all times and well ventilated. The buildings shall be constructed
of such moistureproof material, including painted woodwork, as shall
permit repeated cleaning and washing. The buildings shall be properly
heated at all times. The floors of all service buildings shall be
of impervious material and shall slope to a floor drain connected
with the sewer system or cesspool. Toilet, shower and lavatory facilities
for men and women shall be either in separate buildings or shall be
separated, if they are in the same building, by a soundproof wall.
All toilets and showers shall be in separate compartments.
B.
Toilet facilities for men shall consist of not less
than one flushable toilet and one flushable urinal, one hot and cold
water shower, and one hot and cold water lavatory.
C.
Toilet facilities for women shall consist of not less
than one flushable toilet, one hot and cold water shower, and one
hot and cold water lavatory.
D.
Laundry facilities shall consist of not less than
one double laundry tub with hot and cold water connections, a wringer
attachment or automatic laundry facilities sufficient to meet the
needs of the park. Drying spaces shall be provided sufficient to accommodate
the laundry of the trailer park occupants.
The premises and buildings of all trailer coach
parks shall be maintained in a neat, clean, orderly, safe, well-repaired
condition and kept free of any condition that will menace the health
or safety of any occupant or the public or constitute a nuisance.
Trailer coach parks shall be governed by a complete
set of rules and regulations drawn up and enforced by the operator.
Copies of these rules are to be posted conspicuously in all buildings
of the trailer coach park and a copy thereof given to each trailer
coach owner.
Upon application to the Town Council, the operator
of a trailer coach park may be vested with the powers of a town constable.
A.
It shall be the duty of the Building Inspector to
inspect each trailer coach park at least once during each year and
at any other time as ordered by the Town Council. He shall inspect
the register records and see that they are in proper order; he shall
inspect all buildings, as well as the grounds, of each trailer park.
He shall order any and all violations of this article to be corrected
within a time limit set by him. If correction of a violation is not
made within the time limit, the Building Inspector shall notify the
Town Council to that effect, which shall order the trailer coach park
operator before it for a hearing on action to cancel the operator's
license to operate a trailer coach park.
B.
After hearing thereon, the Town Council may revoke
any license to operate a trailer coach park for any violation of any
of the provisions of this chapter, irrespective of whether or not
the licensee shall have been found guilty of such violation in any
prosecution in the District Court.
C.
A trailer park license required by this article may
also be revoked for the following reasons:
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall be fined not less than $2 nor more than $20 for
each violation, and each day a violation shall be permitted to exist
shall constitute a separate offense.
