Section
152.01 Definitions
152.02 Enforcement
152.03 Location outside camps
152.04 Permanent occupancy prohibited
152.05 Permits
152.06 Investigation required before issuing permit
152.07 Revocation and inspection
152.08 Appeal of denial, renewal or revocation of permit
152.09 Separability and conflict
152.99 Penalty
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPROVED SEWER SYSTEM. The city’s sewer system or septic tank, with tile absorption system constructed in accordance with the specifications of the County Sanitary Ordinance.
APPROVED WATER SYSTEM. The public water system of the city, or a private well and water therefrom, which is in all respects approved by the State Board of Health.
PERSON. Persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation, tenant, owner, lessee or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns.
TRAILER. An automobile trailer, trailer coach or any vehicle or structure so designed and constructed in such manner as will permit occupancy thereof as living quarters for one or more persons, and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on highways or streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive power.
TRAILER COACH PARK. Any site, lot, field or tract of land upon which two or more occupied trailer coaches are harbored, either free of charge or for revenue purposes, and shall include any building, structure, tent, vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as part of the equipment of such trailer coach park.
(1992 Code, § 320:00)
It is hereby made the duty of the City Engineer to enforce all provisions of this chapter as prescribed herein or such provisions as may hereafter be enacted and, for the purpose of securing such enforcement, the City Engineer or his or her authorized representative shall have the right and is hereby empowered to enter upon any premises on which automobile trailers are located, and inspect the same and all accommodations connected therewith at any reasonable time. After securing the approval of the City Council, the City Engineer is further empowered to issue orders granting, renewing and revoking such permits as are provided for in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that, nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to trailer coach parks which are regulated and governed by the State Board of Health pursuant to Ch. 428, Laws of Minnesota 1951 (Minn. Stat. §§ 327.14 et seq., as they may be amended from time to time).
(1992 Code, § 320:05)
(A) It shall be unlawful, within the limits of the city, for any person to park any trailer on any street, alley, highway or other public place or on any tract of land owned by any person, occupied or unoccupied, within the city, except as provided in this chapter.
(B) Emergency or temporary stopping or parking is permitted on any alley, street or highway for not longer than 24 hours, subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations or ordinances for that street, alley or highway.
(C) No person shall park or occupy any trailer on the premises of any occupied dwelling or on any lot which is not a part of the premises of any occupied dwelling either of which is situated outside an approved trailer coach park; except the parking of only one unoccupied trailer in an accessory private garage building, or in a rear or side yard of any district, is permitted; providing, no living quarters shall be maintained or any business practiced in said trailer while such trailer is so parked or stored.
(D) Any person dealing in the buying and selling of trailers may park or store one or more unoccupied trailers on lands which are zoned in the city so as to permit automobile sales service.
(E) The County Agricultural Society (Fair Board), while in the pursuit of conducting a county fair in and for the county, may permit one or more trailers, occupied or unoccupied, on its grounds in the corporate limits of the city, during any such county fair, and incident thereto for a total period of time of not to exceed ten days, upon such terms and conditions as it may by law prescribe.
(1992 Code, § 320:10) Penalty, see § 152.99
Automobile trailers shall not be used as a permanent place of abode or as a permanent dwelling or for indefinite periods of time; provided that, any trailer properly connected with an approved water system and with an approved sewer system, and constructed and located in compliance with all requirements of the plumbing, sanitary, health, zoning and electrical ordinances and regulations effective in the city and not inhabited by a greater number of occupants than that for which it was designed may be permitted for a temporary period of time as herein provided under permits properly secured hereunder and upon compliance with plumbing, electrical, sanitary, health and zoning ordinances and regulations effective in said city.
(1992 Code, § 320:15) Penalty, see § 152.99
(A) Every person seeking a permit, or renewal thereof, hereunder shall make an application therefor in writing at the office of the City Engineer upon a form provided. It shall state the name and address of the applicant, and a description of the property upon which such permit is desired.
(B) Each such application shall be filed with the City Engineer not less than ten days before said trailer is ready for occupancy and shall be accompanied by an inspection fee in the amount duly established by the Council from time to time.
(1992 Code, § 320:20)
Upon filing of such application accompanied by the inspection fee, it shall be the duty of the City Engineer, or his or her duly authorized representative, to investigate the premises and determine whether said trailer and land upon which it is proposed to be used, conform with the requirements of this chapter and of the rules and regulations of the City Engineer and laws of the state, and no permit or renewal thereof shall be issued unless it meets such requirements and no permit or renewal thereof shall be issued for a period of in excess of any year.
(1992 Code, § 320:25)
The City Engineer is hereby authorized to revoke any license or permit issued pursuant to the terms of this chapter if, after due investigation, he or she determines that the holder thereof has violated any of the provisions of this chapter or that any trailer is being maintained in an unsanitary or unsafe manner or is a nuisance.
(1992 Code, § 320:30)
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