(A) For the purpose of this section the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) CAMPGROUND. Any plot of ground where two or more trailers or mobile dwellings are placed or located or intended to be placed or located for use as living quarters.
(2) MOBILE DWELLING. Any temporary living quarters such as trailers, truck bodies, bus bodies, tents, knock-down houses, and improvised shelters designed or intended to be moved from place to place.
(3) TRAILER. Any vehicle used or intended for use for living or sleeping purposes and which is equipped or is intended to be equipped with any device for purposes of transportation, being either self propelled or otherwise.
(4) USE OF LIVING QUARTERS. Includes the acts of sleeping, preparation of meals or any sanitary measure such as bathing, dishwashing or laundering clothing, or any natural or performed operation, which produces waste which may become a nuisance.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use or permit the use of any lot, parcel or tract of land within the corporate limits of the town for a campground, as herein defined, without having first complied with all of the provisions of 410 IAC 6-7.1-1 et seq., relating to campgrounds and with all of the other requirements, rules, and regulations of the State Department of Health heretofore or hereafter promulgated under the authority of I.C. 16-19-3-4.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to use or occupy as living quarters any trailer or mobile dwelling, as herein defined, within the corporate limits of the town, unless such trailer or mobile dwelling shall be located within a campground regularly established and maintained in full compliance with division (B) above.
(D) It shall be unlawful for the owner, operator, or manager of any campground located within the town to permit any person to occupy or use any trailer or mobile dwelling in the camp, without requiring such person to first register in a permanent book kept for that purpose, showing the registrant’s full name, date of entry, license number of his vehicle, permanent place of residence and occupation, which register shall at all times be open to inspection by any police officer of the town or state.
(E) It shall be unlawful to so locate, construct, or maintain any campground within the corporate limits of the town, as to create an unusual fire hazard to permanent structures in its vicinity, and adequate and proper provisions shall be made for fire protection within every such camp, which provision shall be inspected and approved in writing by the Town Building Inspector before being opened for occupancy.
(F) Any trailer, campground or mobile dwelling located, maintained or operated within the town in violation of the provisions of this section or in which disorderly conduct or indecent or immoral practices or acts in violation of any criminal law of this state are permitted or carried on, is hereby declared to be a nuisance subject to abatement as such.
(Ord. 1, passed 4-10-57) Penalty, see § 10.99