ACCESSORY STRUCTURE: Any structural addition to the mobile home which includes awnings, cabanas, carports, Florida rooms, porches, ramadas, storage cabinets and similar appurtenant structures.
BUILDING: A roofed structure erected for permanent use.
COMMON AREA: Any area or space designed for joint use of tenants occupying mobile home developments.
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT: The person who owns or has charge, care or control of the mobile home development.
COMMUNITY SYSTEM (Water Or Sewerage): A central system which serves all living units and is not publicly owned.
DENSITY: The number of mobile homes or mobile home stands per gross acre.
DRIVEWAY: A minor private way used by vehicles and pedestrians on a mobile home lot or for common access to a small group of lots or common facilities.
DWELLING: See definition of Living Unit.
EASEMENT: A vested or acquired right to use land, other than as a tenant, for specific purposes; such right being held by someone other than the owner who holds title to the land.
ENFORCING AGENCY: The health authority, as provided for by section 1-11-7 of this code, or other agencies of the state or the political subdivision charged by law with the duty to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
HEALTH AUTHORITY: The state department of health or its authorized representative of the appropriate political subdivision, which for the city is the health officer appointed in accordance with said section 1-11-7 of this code.
HOUSING: Living units, dwellings and/or other structures that shelter or cover.
LICENSE: A written document issued by the enforcing agency allowing a person to operate and maintain a mobile home development under the provisions of this chapter.
LIVING UNIT: A residential unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one family including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
LOT AREA: The total area reserved for exclusive use of the occupants of a mobile home.
LOT LINE: A line bounding the lot as shown on the accepted plot plan.
MOBILE HOME: See chapter 210, sections 115/2.1 et seq., of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.
MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY: A mobile home development of five (5) or more independent mobile homes and related utilities and facilities, including the mobile homes and all of the people living within the development.
MOBILE HOME DEVELOPMENT: A contiguous parcel of land which has been planned and improved for the placement of mobile homes.
MOBILE HOME LOT: A parcel of land for the placement of a mobile home and the exclusive use of its occupants.
MOBILE HOME STAND: That part of an individual mobile home lot which has been reserved for the placement of a mobile home.
OCCUPIED AREA: That area of an individual mobile home lot which has been covered by a mobile home and its accessory structures.
PERMANENT BUILDING: A building, except a mobile home accessory structure.
PERMIT: A written document issued by the enforcing agency permitting the construction, alteration or expansion of a mobile home development.
PLAT: Any map, plan or chart of a city, town, section or subdivision, indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties.
PLOT: A parcel of land consisting of one or more lots or portions thereof which is described by reference to a recorded plat or by metes and bounds.
POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY: The conductors, including the grounding conductors, insulated from one another, the connectors, attachment plugs, caps and all other fittings, grommets or devices installed for the purpose of delivering energy from the service equipment to the distribution panel within the mobile home.
PRIVATE STREET: A private way which affords principal means of access to abutting individual mobile home lots and auxiliary buildings.
PROPERTY: A plot with any buildings or other improvements located thereon.
PROPERTY LINE: A recorded boundary of a plot.
PUBLIC STREET: A public way which affords principal means of access to abutting properties.
PUBLIC SYSTEM (Water Or Sewerage): A system which is owned and operated by a local governmental authority or by an established public utility company which is adequately controlled by a governmental authority. Such systems are usually existing systems serving a municipality, a township, an urban county or a water or sewer district established and directly controlled under the laws of a state.
RIGHTS OF WAY: The area, either public or private, over which the right of passage exists.
SERVICE BUILDING: A building housing toilet, lavatory and such other facilities as may be required by this chapter.
SERVICE EQUIPMENT: The necessary equipment, usually consisting of circuit breaker or switch and fuses and their accessories located near the point of entrance of supply conductors to or in a building or mobile home and intended to constitute the main control and means of cutoff for the supply to that mobile home or building.
SEWER CONNECTION: A connection consisting of all pipes, fittings and appurtenances from the drain outlet of the mobile home to the inlet of the corresponding sewer riser pipe of the sewerage system serving the mobile home development.
SEWER RISER PIPE: That portion of the sewer lateral which extends vertically to the ground elevation and terminates at each mobile home lot.
SHALL: Indicates that which is required.
SHOULD: Indicates that which is recommended but not required.
SITE: A parcel of land consisting of one or more lots or portions thereof which is described by reference to a recorded plat or by metes and bounds.
WATER CONNECTION: A connection consisting of all pipes, fittings and appurtenances from the water riser pipe to the water inlet pipe of the distribution system within the mobile home.
WATER RISER PIPE: That portion of the water supply system serving the mobile home development which extends vertically to the ground elevation and terminates at a designated point at each mobile home lot. (Ord. 45, 3-19-1973)