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(A) General. The requirements of this section shall apply to service buildings, recreation buildings, and other community service facilities, such as management offices, repair shops, storage areas, sanitary facilities, laundry facilities, indoor recreation areas, and commercial uses supplying essential goods or services for the exclusive use of park occupants.
(B) Structural requirements for buildings. All portions of the structure shall be properly protected from damage by ordinary uses and by decay, corrosion, termites, and other destructive elements. Exterior portions shall be of the materials, and be so constructed, and protected, as to prevent entrance, or penetration, of moisture and weather.
(C) Barbecue pits, fireplaces, stoves, and incinerators. Cooking shelters, barbecue pits, fireplaces, woodburning stoves, and incinerators shall be so located, constructed, maintained, and used as to minimize fire hazards and smoke nuisances both on the property on which used, and on neighboring properties, and shall comply with all appropriate provisions of the city code, laws, or other regulations.
(D) Antennas. No outside antennas of any kind shall be allowed on any mobile home. There shall be erected in each mobile home park, on a major service building located therein, one UHF antenna and related equipment sufficient to serve each unit in the entire park. All leads to mobile homes from the antenna shall be placed underground.
(Prior Code, § 4.40)
(A) Grounds, buildings, and structures. Ground buildings and structures shall be maintained free of insect and rodent harborage and infestation. Extermination methods, and other measures to control insects and rodents, shall conform with the requirements of the City Health Code.
(B) Parks. Parks shall be maintained free of accumulation of debris which may provide rodent harborage or breeding places for flies, mosquitoes, and other pests.
(C) Storage areas. Storage areas shall be so maintained as to prevent rodent harborage; lumber, pipe, and other building material shall be stored at least one foot above ground.
(D) Screens. Where the potential for insect and rodent infestation exists, all exterior openings in, or beneath, any structure shall be appropriately screened with wire mesh, or other suitable materials.
(E) Brush, weeds, and grass. The growth of brush, weeds, and grass shall be controlled to prevent harborage of ticks, chiggers, and other noxious insects. Parks shall be so maintained as to prevent the growth of ragweed, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and other noxious weeds considered detrimental to health. Open areas shall be maintained free of heavy undergrowth of any description.
(Prior Code, § 4.40)
(A) Litter, rubbish, and the like. Mobile home parks shall be kept free of litter, rubbish, and other flammable materials.
(B) Fire extinguishers. Portable fire extinguishers rated for classes A, B, and C fires shall be kept visible in service buildings and at other locations conveniently, and readily, accessible for use by all of the occupants, and shall be maintained in good operating condition. Their capacity shall be not less than ten pounds.
(C) Fires. Fires shall be made only in stoves, indoor incinerators, and other equipment intended for such purposes.
(D) Fire hydrants. Fire hydrants shall be installed if the park water supply system is capable to serve them in accordance with the following requirements:
(1) The water supply system shall permit the operation of standard city fire hydrants; and
(2) Fire hydrants, if provided, shall be located within 300 feet of any mobile home, service building, or other structure in the park.
(Prior Code, § 4.40)
The responsibilities of the park management are as follows:
(A) The operator shall operate the park in compliance with this section, and shall provide adequate supervision to maintain the park, its facilities, and equipment in good repair and in a clean, and sanitary, condition;
(B) The park management shall notify the park occupants of all applicable provisions of this section, and inform them of their duties, and responsibilities, under this section;
(C) It shall be the duty of the operator of the mobile home park to keep a register containing a record of all mobile home owners and occupants located within the park. The register shall contain the following information:
(1) The name, and address, of each mobile home occupant;
(2) The name, and address, of the owner of each mobile home and motor vehicle by which it is towed;
(3) The make, model, year, and license number of each mobile home and motor vehicle, and the state, territory, or country issuing the license; and
(4) The date of arrival, and departure, of each mobile home.
(D) The park shall keep the register available for inspection at all times by law enforcement officers, public health officials, and other officials whose duty necessitates acquisition of the information contained in the register. The register record for each occupant registered shall not be destroyed for a period of three years following the date of departure of the registrant from the park.
(Prior Code, § 4.40)
Every person who violates a section, division, subchapter, or provision of this chapter when he or she performs an act thereby prohibited, or declared unlawful, or fails to act when the failure is thereby prohibited, or declared unlawful, or performs an act prohibited, or declared unlawful, or fails to act when the failure is prohibited, or declared unlawful, by a code adopted by reference by this chapter, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as for a misdemeanor, except as otherwise stated in specific provisions hereof.
(Prior Code, § 4.99)