[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Johnston 12-10-1979
by Ord. No. 440 as Secs. 24A-1 to 24A-4 of the 1979 Code.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation, tenant, owner,
lessee or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns.
Any vehicle or structure so designed and constructed in such a manner
as will permit occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters for one or more persons
or the conduct of any business, profession, occupation or trade (or use as
a selling or advertising device) and so designed that it is or may be mounted
on wheels and used as a conveyance on highways or streets, propelled or drawn
by its own or other motive power, excepting a device used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks.
A.
It shall be unlawful within the limits of the Town for
any person to park, store or place any trailer on any street, alley or highway,
or other public place, or on any lot, tract or parcel of land owned by any
person, occupied or unoccupied, within the Town except as provided in this
chapter.
B.
Emergency or temporary stopping or parking is permitted
on any street or highway for not longer than one hour subject to any other
and further prohibitions, regulations, or limitations imposed by the traffic
and parking regulations or ordinances for that street or highway.
C.
No person shall park or occupy any trailer on the premises
of any occupied dwelling or on any lot, tract or parcel of land which is not
a part of the premises of any occupied dwelling, except the parking of only
one unoccupied trailer in an accessory private garage or in a rear yard in
any district is permitted provided no living quarters shall be maintained
or any business practiced in the trailer while the trailer is so parked or
stored.
A.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to be applicable
to trailers located within the limits of the Town at the time of the enactment
of this chapter or to trailer sales lots on which trailers are parked for
the purposes of inspection and sale, nor should anything contained herein
be construed to prevent the owner of a trailer from replacing the trailer
which is located within the confines of the Town at the time of the enactment
of this chapter.
B.
Neither shall this chapter apply to a trailer used by
a person, company or corporation in conjunction with the erection of any building
or facility or in pursuance of any public works project within the limits
of the Town; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed
as to permit the moving of a trailer in this section from one location in
the Town to another location in the Town.
Any person found guilty of violating any provision of this chapter shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than $50 and
not more than $100, and every day such violation exists shall constitute a
separate offense and be punishable as such hereunder.
