For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGENCY. The planning and building services department including the zoning division.
CABANA. A factory-built room enclosure erected or constructed attached to a manufactured home for residential use by the occupants of a manufactured home.
CODES. Any codes or other regulations that the city council or its departments have adopted which include, but are not limited to, zoning code, property maintenance code, fire code, health code, building and residential code, plumbing code, mechanical and fuel gas code and electrical code. The codes will be controlling when work is to be done in a given area where the code is applicable.
DATA PLATE. The data plate which verifies the following: manufacturer’s name, trade/model name, year of manufacturer, serial number, HUD Construction Code Label(s) and HUD construction zones. Per 1976 HUD regulation, this form is to be affixed inside the home on or near the main electrical breaker box and is printed on paper or foil stock eight and one-half inches by 11 inches to eight and one-half inches by 14 inches in size.
DETACHED ACCESSORY BUILDING. An incidental freestanding building located on the same lot which it serves and used solely for storage of personal equipment and possessions of the manufactured home occupants.
LICENSE. A licensed manufactured home park operator’s license.
LICENSEE. The person to whom a manufactured home park license has been granted.
LICENSING ENTITY. The city council.
MANUFACTURED HOME. A dwelling unit which is fabricated in one or more sections at a location other than the home site by assembly line-type production techniques or by other construction methods unique to an off-site manufacturing process. A MANUFACTURED HOME/MOBILE HOME is designed to be towed on its own chassis or be site delivered by alternative means. Every section shall bear a label certifying that it is built in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards. For manufactured homes built prior to June 15, 1976, a label certifying compliance to the Standard for Manufactured Homes, NFPA 501, ANSI 119.1, in effect at the time of manufacture is required.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK, LICENSED. A contiguous parcel of land, under the same ownership where lots are rented for the temporary placement of manufactured homes, with all necessary facilities and services, and is licensed by the city.
MANUFACTURED HOME SPACE. A parcel of land designated and approved for the placement of a single manufactured home.
PARK OCCUPANT. A person living in a manufactured home located in a licensed manufactured home park.
PARK OPERATOR. The person to whom a manufactured home park license has been issued or who is managing the licensed manufactured home park for someone who has been issued a license.
REQUIRED YARD. A yard of a manufactured home as set out in a licensed manufactured home park layout plan.
RESIDENTIAL RENTAL UNIT. Any dwelling unit which is rented or offered for rent as living quarters within a licensed manufactured home park.
SERVICE BUILDING. An accessory building to a licensed manufactured home park for related services.
SERVICE EQUIPMENT. The plumbing, mechanical and electrical equipment including piping, wiring, fixtures and other accessories which provide sanitation, lighting, heating, ventilation, cooling, refrigeration, fire protection and facilities essential for the habitable occupancy of a manufactured home or accessory building or structure for its designated use and occupancy.
UTILITIES. Water and sewer, gas or electrical distribution system which is available for connection to manufactured homes in a licensed manufactured home park.
YARD. An open space, other than a court on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
ZONING ORDINANCE. The revised zoning ordinance of the city, as codified in chapter 160.
(1992 Code, § 24-3) (Ord. 76-85, passed 9-23-1985; Ord. 103-94, passed 11-21-1994; Ord. 93-95, passed 7-3-1995; Ord. 26-04, passed 3-1-2004; Ord. 87-11, passed 11-21-2011)
Cross-reference:
Definitions and rules of construction generally, see § 10.002