The following definitions shall be used for purposes of defining the terms used in Chapter 1377:
(a) “Trailer” means any vehicle without motive power designed or used for carrying property or persons wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and includes any such vehicle when formed by or operated as a combination of a semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, and a vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour, except a house trailer.
(b) “House trailer” means any self-propelled and non-self-propelled vehicle so designed, constructed, reconstructed or added to by means of accessories in such manner as will permit the use and occupancy thereof for human habitation, when connected to indicated utilities, whether resting on wheels, jacks or other temporary foundation, and used or so constructed as to permit its being used as a conveyance upon the public streets or highways, or a structure designed primarily to be mounted on a pickup or truck chassis and with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation uses.
(c) “Auto trailer” and “trailer coach” mean a vehicular portable structure built on a chassis and not exceeding a gross weight of 7,500 pounds when factory equipped for the road, or an overall length of thirty-eight feet, and designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, or a portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle, or a portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled unit, or a canvas holding structure mounted on wheels and designed for travel and vacation use.
(d) “Shipping container” means a standardized reusable vessel that was originally designed for or used in packing, shipping, movement, or transportation of freight, articles, goods, or commodities. The meaning of "shipping container" includes but is not limited to similar containers such as cargo containers, transport containers and portable site storage containers.
(Ord. 106-1973. Passed 5-21-73; Ord. 21-2016. Passed 3-21-16.)