Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning appears from the context, the following terms shall have the meanings herein prescribed:
LICENSEE: Any person licensed to operate and maintain a mobile home park under the provisions of this chapter.
MOBILE HOME: A movable or portable unit designed and constructed to be transported, comprised of a frame and/or wheels and so designed to be connected to utilities of year round occupancy and provide complete independent living facilities, including provisions for cooking, sleeping and sanitation. The term includes units containing parts that may be collapsed or telescoped when being transported and then expanded to provide additional cubic capacity, and units composed of two (2) or more separately transportable components designed to be joined into an integral unit capable of being separated again into components for repeated transporting. Removal of wheels, towing devices or any other alteration does not qualify a mobile home as a conventional single-family dwelling unless such alterations enable the unit to meet the national building code, latest edition, the BOCA (Building Officials and Code Administrators International) basic building code, latest edition, uniform building code, 1970 edition, or the federal housing authority's minimum property standards for one- and two-family living units.
MOBILE HOME PARK: Any plat of ground upon which five (5) or more mobile homes, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodations.
MOBILE HOME SPACE: A plot of ground within a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one mobile home.
MULTIPLE DWELLING: Any structure designed and intended to accommodate more than one family and includes, but is not limited to, duplex buildings, group houses and apartment buildings.
NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL BARRIER: Any river, pond, canal, railroad, levee, embankment, fence or hedge.
PARK: A mobile home park.
PERSON: Any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association or corporation.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: Every camping trailer, motor home, trailer, mini-motor home, travel trailer, truck camper or van camper used primarily for recreational purposes and not used commercially and licensed under 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/1-169.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK: Any plot of ground upon which a recreational vehicle is located regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation, excepting therefrom the storage of one unoccupied recreational vehicle upon the property of the owner. (1972 Code; amd. Ord. 86-10, 2-4-1986)