A. Application For License; General Requirements:
1. Contents Of Application: Every person, firm or corporation desiring to create, establish, develop or construct a mobile home park, or expand a mobile home park, shall make written application, upon forms to be provided, to the building official for a mobile home park license. Such written application shall include the following:
a. Applicant's name and mailing address.
b. Five (5) copies of a mobile home park development plan, to include the following, on a scaled drawing of an appropriate dimension prepared by a registered engineer, architect or land surveyor so indicated by signature and seal:
(1) A north arrow, date, scale, and appropriate legend.
(2) Two foot (2') contour intervals.
(3) Location and size of all easements, utilities and rights of way existing and proposed.
(4) All public and private street names.
(5) Location and size of all proposed mobile home spaces, utility and drainage easements, public streets and rights of way, private drives with surface types, walkways, parking spaces with surface types, drainage improvements, recreational spaces, screening, offices, laundry buildings and any other contemplated permanent structures or improvements.
(6) Location and size of all existing or proposed permanent improvements, including pads, off street parking with surface types, and utilities.
(7) All proposed front, side and rear yard setback distances.
2. Site Plan Submittal; Hearing: The mobile home park site plan shall be submitted to the planning commission for review, study and recommendation. The same shall then be submitted to the mayor and board of commissioners for approval, denial or conditional approval only after said board conducts a public hearing concerning such development plan. Once approved, the land covered by such mobile home park plan shall be developed in accordance therewith as approved, and any change, modification, revision or deviation therefrom may be grounds for the revocation of the mobile home park license issued, and deemed a violation of this chapter.
3. City May Require Certain Park Modifications: The planning commission or the mayor and board of commissioners may require certain alterations, modifications or amendments of the mobile home park development plan when deemed necessary for the inclusion of easements, rights of way, utilities, or any other amendment necessary for the general welfare of the public.
4. Improvement Bonds: Improvement bonds may also be required to be furnished on the subject property for public streets, water lines, sewer lines, drainage structures, and all other public improvements.
B. Inspection For Compliance; License Issuance; Fee:
1. Upon the completion of a mobile home park, or the expansion of a mobile home park, the building official shall be immediately notified of the same by the permittee. After such notification, the building official, without unnecessary delay, shall cause there to be an inspection of the mobile home park, and if the said mobile home park has been developed and constructed in compliance with all the pertinent provisions of this chapter and in accordance with the approved mobile home park development plan, the building official shall issue to the permittee a license to operate a mobile home park.
2. No person shall operate any mobile home park within the city unless he holds a valid license issued annually by the director of finance in the name of such person for the specific mobile home park.
3. In addition to the requirements as set forth herein to obtain a license for the operation of a mobile home park, a fee as provided in subsection 2-6B-12B of this code shall be paid to the city.
4. All mobile home park licenses shall expire June 30 and all fees for the ensuing year are due and payable prior thereto. Original fees for a license may be prorated to June 30 of the following year, when appropriate.
C. Transfer Of License; Notification:
1. Every person holding a license shall give notice in writing to the building official within ten (10) days before having sold, transferred, given away, or otherwise disposed of his interest in, or control of, any mobile home park. Such notice shall include the name and address of the person succeeding to the ownership or control of such mobile home park. Upon application in writing for transfer of the license and deposit of a fee in the amount provided in subsection 2-6B-12C of this code, the license shall be transferred, if the mobile home park is in compliance with all applicable provisions of this chapter.
2. After an on site inspection is performed by the building official, written notice shall be given to the person holding the license and the person, firm, or corporation receiving the license, of any repairs, improvements, or other requirements which must be corrected within a specified period of time determined by the building official.
3. Transfer of the license may be permitted after both parties have received written notification. However, responsibility for repairs, improvements, or requirements specified by the building official shall then be to the person receiving the license.
D. Suspension Of License; Notice; Hearing:
1. Whenever, upon inspection of any mobile home park, the building official or any other authorized city officers or employees or the health authority finds that conditions or practices exist which are in violation of any provision of this chapter, such inspecting officer shall give notice in writing to the person to whom the license was issued that such conditions or practices shall be corrected within a reasonable period of time specified in the notice. At the end of such period, the party issuing the notice shall reinspect such mobile home park and, if such conditions or practices have not been corrected, he shall file a complaint against the person to whom the license was issued for the violation.
2. If such person is found guilty by a municipal court, the license shall be suspended after a hearing before the building official giving due process and an opportunity to be heard. (1994 Code §§ 19-53, 19-54, 19-55, 19-56)