(A) Planning. Any person, firm, or corporation seeking to establish, maintain, conduct, operate, or alter a mobile home park shall obtain a permit to construct or a permit to alter and an original license or a supplemental license to operate a mobile home park.
(B) (1) Application.
(a) 1. All applications for license shall be filed with the Zoning and Building Department on forms prescribed, prepared, and furnished by the Department.
2. The application shall contain such information as will be required by the Department for the proper administration and enforcement of the Act and this chapter.
(b) Every applicant shall file with the Zoning and Building Department a written application, in triplicate, and plan documents for the proposed construction or alteration of a mobile home park.
(c) Applications shall be completed by the applicant or an engineer or architect who is registered and licensed to practice in the state, pursuant to § 4 of the Act.
(d) Application for permit or license shall be made according to the requirements set forth in § 4 of the Mobile Home and Mobile Home Park Act (Ill. Rev. Stat., 1983, Chapter 111.5 Pars. 714).
(e) Each applicant shall include an application fee of $100 for a permit to construct; or an application fee of $50 for a permit to alter or increase the size of the park. No application fee shall be required where the alteration involves a reduction in the number of mobile home spaces or any change not increasing the spaces in the park. The application fee, once paid to the Zoning and Building Department, shall not be refunded.
(f) In addition to the permits and fees covered in divisions (B)(1)(a) through (B)(1)(e) above, building permits will be required for any new buildings or structures erected in the mobile home park. (Refer to the County Building Codes.)
(C) License.
(1) Upon completion of the proposed construction of a mobile home park or the proposed alteration of a mobile home park, the applicant shall notify the Zoning and Building Department and the Department of Public Health for the state in order that an inspection of the completed facilities can be made. A license shall be issued by the Zoning and Building Department upon verification that the construction is in accordance with plans previously submitted, reviewed and approved pursuant to §§ 151.04 and 151.05 by the Zoning and Building Department, and providing all zoning approvals are obtained and the mobile home park is otherwise in compliance with the Act and this chapter.
(2) An existing mobile home park, not previously licensed by the Zoning and Building Department, must comply with the Mobile Home and Mobile Home Park Act and this chapter. A license shall be issued up on verification by the Zoning and Building Department that the mobile home park is in compliance with the Act and this chapter.
(3) No license shall be issued unless the requisite fee established pursuant to § 6 of the Act has been paid to the Zoning and Building Department.
(4) In addition to the application fee provided for herein, the licensees shall pay the Administrative Officer of the Zoning and Building Department on or before June 30 of each year an annual fee which shall be $50, provided, however, that subsequent to the above date, any applicant for an original license to operate a new mobile home park constructed under a permit issued by the Zoning and Building Department shall only be required to pay one-half the annual fee.
(Prior Code, § 3-4-2) (Res. passed 5-20-1986)