(A) After the effective date of this amendment, no person, firm or corporation shall park a trailer, or permit a trailer to be parked, or occupy a parked trailer, off the public highways within the limits of the town without having obtained a permit therefor.
(B) Such trailer permit shall be issued in the name of the town by the Enforcement Officer of the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(C) The owner of the trailer and the owner of the land on which the trailer is to be parked, if different therefrom, shall apply to the Enforcement Officer of the Planning and Zoning Commission for such trailer permit through a written application.
(1) Such application shall be accepted by the Enforcement Officer only when made in conjunction, with an application for a zoning building permit for a detached dwelling, in accordance with the zoning regulations of the Planning and Zoning Commission or when made for a renewal of a trailer permit granted prior to the effective date of this amendment.
(2) Such application shall set forth the following:
(a) Name and address of the owner of the trailer and the owner of the land on which the trailer is to be parked;
(b) Name and address of the proposed occupant of the trailer, if not the applicant, and his or her relationship to the applicant or applicants;
(c) Description of the trailer including make, model, serial number and motor vehicle registration number, if any;
(d) Description of the plot of land upon which the applicant intends to park such trailer including the former owner of the land, its location and area;
(e) The water supply provided or to be provided;
(f) The sewage disposal system provided or to be provided; and
(g) The number of persons to use the water supply and sewage disposal system.
(D) Such application shall be filed in the Office of the Town Clerk for processing together with a deposit of the permit fee, which, upon the disapproval of the application shall be returned to the applicant.
(E) The Enforcement Officer shall approve or disapprove such application within 30 days after the date of filing.
(F) No application shall be approved and no trailer permit issued unless all requirements for a zoning building permit are met with respect to the trailer.
(G) If the Enforcement Officer shall approve the application, he or she shall issue a permit.
(H) The fee for any trailer permit or the renewal thereof, including the renewal of a permit issued prior to the effective date of this amendment, shall be $200, but an owner-occupant of a trailer who has paid property taxes to the town during the 12 months next before his or her application for a permit or renewal thereof under this section, or who is entitled to a tax exemption, shall have the fee remitted to the extent of such taxes paid or exempted, and the Selectmen may abate the fee of any person whose taxes they may, by law, abate.
(I) All trailer permits issued prior to the effective date of this amendment shall expire as of such date. Renewal of such permits shall be valid for one year and they may be renewed from year to year in case of continuous ownership of a trailer or replacement thereof, provided no permit shall be renewed for a trailer whose enclosed living space has been added to or expanded during the previous year.
(J) All trailer permits issued subsequent to the effective date of this amendment shall expire one year after date of issue. Renewal of such permits, whether upon their expiration or subsequently, shall be valid for only six months and only one such renewal shall be granted except that upon completion, to the satisfaction of the Enforcement Officer, of 60% of the dwelling for which a building permit was issued in conjunction with the trailer permit, one additional renewal for six months without additional fee shall be granted.
(Ord. passed 5-3-1969)