ORD CC 11/10/1970 - Mobile Home regulationsAN ORDINANCE AMENDING SEC °SON III, SECTION VI, SECTION X AND
SECTION XII, AND ADDING A NEW SECTION XII -A OF AN ORDINANCE HERE-
TOFORE PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS,
AS AMENDED, REFERRED TO AS THE MOBILE HOME AND MOBILE HOME PARK
ORDINANCE RECORDED ON PAGES 287 -290 OF VOLUME J AND PAGES 3S/¢ 3.5sti
OF VOLUME Ac OF THE OFFICIAL MINUTES OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE,
TEXAS:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, THAT:
I.
Section III, Section VI, Section X and Section XII of
the Mobile Home and Mobile Home Park Ordinance as
amende• as recorded in Volume J, Pages 287 -290 in
Volume , Page ,)_ Y' of the Official Minutes of the
City of H tsville, Texas, are hereby amended so that
said Sec s of said Ordinance shall hereafter respective-
ly read and become effective as follows:
SECTION III: License fees:
(a) Effective January 1, 1971, the annual license fee
for each calendar year for each mobile home park
shall be $25.00, plus $1.00 for each lot or area in
such mobile home park maintained for rental space
or a mobile home. Such fee shall be paid no later
than January 15, 1971, and no later than January 15th
cf each successive year thereafter so long as such
mobile home park is operated as such.
(b) Where an individual, partnership or corporation owns
land and owns all mobile home units placed thereon,
and the mobile home units are placed on permanent
foundations and rendered for taxes as an improvement
to the realty, such owner is exempt from payment of
a license fee as a mobile home park. Such owner must,
however, apply for and obtain a license without cost,
and conform with all other applicable provisions of
this ordinance.
SECTION VI:
SECTION X:
Location: No mobile home park may be •located within
the fire zone of the City.
Mobile homes outside licensed park: It shall be un-
lawful for any person to locate or maintain any such
trailer in any place in the City of Huntsville or
any place using the services of the City of Huntsville
other than in a duly licensed and lawful mobile home
park unless such person shall first secure a permit
from a representative of the City Council upon written
application therefor filed with the representative of
the City Council, giving the name and address of the
applicant and a description of the property upon which
said mobile home is to be located. The permit required
herein is in addition to the connection permit and
inspection fee required in Section XII of the within
ordinance.
SECTION XII: Connection permit and inspection fee for mobile homes:
(a) It shall be unlawful for any owner, operator or
manager of a mobile home park to connect or allow
any mobile home within a mobile home park to be
connected to any sewer, gas, water or electrical
connection without first obtaining a connection per -
mit therefor. It shall likewise be unlawful for any
mobile home owner located within the corporate limits
of the City of Huntsville, whether in a mobile home
park or otherwise, to connect a mobile home or cause
same to be connected, to any sewer, gas, water or
electrical connection without first obtaining a
connection permit for such connection.
(b) Connection permits shall be issued by the City Build-
ing Inspector upon the payment of an inspection fee
of $7.50. Thereafter, as soon as practical, the City
Building. Inspector shall inspect the mobile home for
which said permit was issued and if found to be properly
connected to sewer, gas, water and electrical connection
in accordance with applicable codes and ordinances of
the City of Huntsville, including the within ordinance,
he shall issue an inspection approval tag or sticker
for affixing to the mobile home inspected. Such tag
or sticker shall be displayed upon the front portion
of said mobile home in such a manner as to be easily
seen and shall remain so displayed so long as said
mobile home remains connected to sewer, gas, water or
electrical connections.
(c) All applications for such connection permits shall be
made upon forms provided by the City Building In-
spector and shall contain the name of the mobile home
owner, his mailing address, and a description of the
mobile home for which said application is made.
(d) When any mobile home is disconnected from sewer, gas,
water or electrical connections and removed from any
mobile home park, the City Building Inspector shall
be informed so that the records pertaining to the
inspection made under the permit issued for such mobile
home may be removed from the active files maintained
by the City Building Inspector.
(e) Owners, operators or managers of mobile home parks'
may apply for and be issued no more than five
undesignated connection permits upon payment of the
required inspection fee for each undesignated permit
issued in order to facilitate connections for mobil
homes during non- working hours of the City Building
Inspector. When such permits are used, the City
Building Inspector shall be furnished the usual
information for a regular application upon the, next
regular day of business and he shall thereupon complete
the inspection and action required under the provisions
in the above paragraphs.
The City Building Inspector shall inspect mobile
homes from time to time and is hereby authorized
to require corrective action upon the part of the
occupant or owner of any mobile home found to be
improperly connected to sewer, gas, water or electrical
connections. In the event any occupant or owner fails
to comply with the corrective action required within
three days after notice thereof, the City Building
Inspector shall cause the termination of sewer, gas,
water, or electrical service in the interest of the
safety, health and welfare of the public until the
deficiency is corrected.
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(g) The provisions of this Section shall apply to all
mobile homes and mobile home parks from the effective
date of the within amendment; provided however, that
all mobile homes for which a parking permit has pre-
viously been issued under the provisions of prior
ordinances shall be inspected and an inspection tag
issued without charge. All owners of mobile homes
in use on the effective date of this ordinance for
which no permit was obtained under prior ordinances
shall comply with the provisions of sub - paragraph (b)
above within 30 days from the effective date of the
within ordinance. Thereafter, it shall be unlawful
for any mobile home owner or mobile home park owner,
operator or manager to allow any mobile home to re-
main connected to sewer, gas, water or electrical
connections within any mobile home park, or elsewhere
within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Hunts -
ville, which does not have a valid inspection tag or stun'
(h) The owners of property upon which mobile homes are
parked will pay a minimum monthly sewage and garbage
charge of $2.75 for each mobile home parked upon his
property plus the regulation metered water rate.
II.
The Mobile Home and Mobile Home Park Ordinance as
amended as recorded in Volume J, Pages 287 -290 in
Volume "a, Page ,' z of the Official Minutes of the
City of ntsv111e, Texas, is hereby amended by adding
a new Se ion to be numbered Section XII -A and which said
Section shall read as follows:
SECTION XII -A: Register and Directory Required:
(a) All owners, operators or managers of mobile home
parks shall maintain a register or listing of tenants
occupying spaces within said mobile home park. Said
register or listing shall be of a permanent type book
or volume and shall contain the name of the tenant
and the numbered space in which said tenant resides.
Said register shall be kept and maintained for in-
spection by City Officials at all times.
(b) On January 5th and April 5th of 1971, and thereafter
annually on January 5th and April 5th of each year
each owner, operator or manager of a mobile home park
shall furnish to the City Building Inspector of the
City of Huntsville a complete listing of mobile home
owners residing within their respective mobile home
parks on January 1st and April 1st of each year,
commencing on January 1, 1971. Such listing shall
include the name of the owner of such mobile home and
a description of the mobile home in which said person
resides.
(c) All owners, operators or managers of mobile home parks
shall display, at the entrance of said mobile home park
or the main office of said mobile' home parka complete
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directory by numbered space of the names of all
tenants of said mobile home park. Said directory
may be upon a bulletin board protected from in-
clement weather or any other suitable display, but
of such prominence so that said directory may be
utilized by police, fire department, emergency
personnel or other persons seeking the location of
individuals within said mobile home park. Said
directory shall at all times be kept current in
order to facilitate the location of tenants of said
park.
PASSED AND APPROVED IN OPEN COUNCIL this the hIrda
of November, A. D., 1970.
ATTEST:
WELDON COLEMAN, City Secretary
PROVED AS TO FO
W. BEN B
ALOCK, JR., MAYOR
MARTIN D. CO Y, City Attor ey