In addition to the definitions contained in the Mobile Home Park Act, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT. The Mobile Home Park Act (210 ILCS 115).
APPLICANT. Any person making application for a license or permit.
COMMUNITY PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM. A system for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption, if the system has at least 15 service connections or serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days per year. This includes any collection, treatment, storage and distribution facilities under control of the operator of such system and used primarily in connection with such system, and any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control which are used in connection with such system.
LICENSE. A certificate issued by the Zoning Officer allowing a person to operate and maintain a manufactured home community under the provisions of the Act and this chapter.
LICENSEE. Any person to whom a license or permit has been issued under this chapter.
MANUFACTURED HOME. A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which while in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 square feet or more, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein. Any home defined in the Act as a MOBILE HOME is defined as a MANUFACTURED HOME for the purposes of this chapter.
MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY. A tract of land or two or more contiguous tracts of land that contains sites with the necessary utilities for five or more independent manufactured homes for permanent habitation either free of charge or for revenue purposes, and shall include any building, structure, vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the equipment of such manufactured home community. Separate ownership of contiguous tracts of land shall not preclude the tracts of land from common licensure as a MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY if they are maintained and operated jointly. Neither an immobilized manufactured home nor a motorized recreational vehicle shall be construed as being part of a MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY. Any community defined in the Act as a MOBILE HOME PARK is defined as a MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY for the purposes of this chapter.
OWNER or OPERATOR. The licensee.
PERMIT. A certificate issued by the Zoning Officer permitting the construction, alteration or the reduction in number of sites of a manufactured home community under the provisions of the Act and this chapter.
PERSON. Any individual group of individuals, association, trust, partnership, corporation, persons doing business under an assumed name, county, municipality, the State of Illinois, or any political subdivision or department thereof, or any other entity.
RESIDENT. Any person who occupies a manufactured home site for dwelling purposes.
SERVICE EQUIPMENT. The necessary electrical equipment, usually consisting of circuit breaker, or switch and fuses, and meter located near the point of entrance of supply conductors to the home and intended to constitute the main control and means of cutoff of the electrical supply.
SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA. An area that would be inundated by the base flood and shown as such on a regulatory floodplain map (published by the State Department of Natural Resources,
Division of Water Resources), a flood insurance map or a flood hazard boundary map, both published by the Federal Insurance Administration or the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(1975 Code, § 35-10) (Ord. 2023-7-19A, passed 7-19-2023)