(A) Definitions. The term RECREATIONAL CAMPING VEHICLE means any of the following:
(1) CAMPING TRAILER. A folding structure, mounted-on wheels and designed for travel, recreation and vacation uses;
(2) MOTOR HOME. A portable, temporary building to be used for travel, recreation and vacation, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle;
(3) PICK-UP COACH. A structure designed to be mounted on a truck chassis for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation;
(4) TRAILER. Any vehicle designed for carrying property or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle but does not include a trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semi-trailer combination or an auxiliary axle on a motor vehicle which carries a portion of the weight of the motor vehicle to which it is attached; or
(5) TRAVEL TRAILER. A vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, permanently identified “travel trailer” by the manufacturer of the trailer.
(B) Limitations.
(1) No person shall park any of the following described vehicles upon any street, street right-of-way, alley or public parking lot for more than 72 hours in any one seven calendar day period unless otherwise provided:
(a) Trucks of a capacity of more than one ton, not to exceed 12,000 pounds gross weight, according to the manufacturer’s rating;
(b) Trucks having an overall length of more than 20 feet, or width at any point of more than six feet, unless greater according to original manufacturer’s rating or specification; and
(c) Dump trucks, tractors, truck-tractors, trailers, boats, boat trailers, travel trailers, pick-up coaches, motor homes, camping trailers or any heavy machinery.
(2) It is further provided that during periods of time as the vehicle is authorized to be parked upon any street, street right-of-way, alley or public parking lot, they shall nonetheless not be occupied as living quarters.
(3) The limitations contained in this division (B) do not apply to parking of a trailer, whether attached to a towing vehicle or not, which trailer is used for commercial purposes and the parking of the trailer, when the same is actively engaged in commercial activity and is at an adjacent site, but only to the extent that the commercial activity necessitates the use of the trailer and only for periods during which the commercial activity is actually occurring. Trailers shall not be left unattended unless the same has proper reflectors or other safety hazard markers.
(2003 Code, § 7.52) (Ord. 81, passed 12-18-1998)