(a) No person shall maintain or operate a trailer court or use any property within the Borough or cause, allow or permit any property within the Borough to be so used for the purposes of a trailer court unless:
(1) Such Trailer Court is authorized in accordance with the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance as a special exception after public hearing by the Board of Adjustment; or
(2) Such Trailer Court is, at the effective date of this article, legally existent and maintained in full compliance with the requirements of the current Borough Ordinances regulating the maintenance and use of trailers and trailer courts in the Borough with respect to each and every trailer maintained and used in such trailer court.
(b) After the effective date of this article, no person shall continue to maintain or operate any trailer court, the use of which is legally existent, after the expiration of the present calendar year, unless such person or owner thereof, prior to such expiration date, makes application to the Building Inspector for a permit and pays the required fee therefor as hereinafter provided, and as a condition precedent to the granting of the permit the Building Inspector shall first determine that every trailer located within the prescribed area of the Trailer Court and that the Trailer Court itself fully complies with the regulations and the requirements of this article as well as the Zoning Ordinance.
(c) After the effective date of this article, every application to the Building Inspector to establish, maintain or operate a Trailer Court shall set forth a plan of such Trailer Court or proposed Trailer Court setting forth the following:
(1) The name and address of the applicant and owner;
(2) The extent and area to be used for trailer court purposes;
(3) The location of all roadways and driveways;
(4) The location of all lots intended for the parking of trailers;
(5) The location and number of all existing or proposed facilities to be used by the occupants of trailers, including sanitary conveniences, washrooms, toilets, laundries and utility rooms;
(6) The method and plan of sewage disposal;
(7) The method and plan of garbage and refuse disposal;
(8) The plan for water supply;
(9) The plan for electric lighting of trailers;
(10) The location of fire extinguishers and nearest fire hydrant;
(11) A statement that the premises proposed to be occupied by such Trailer Court, in the case of a Trailer Court not established prior to the adoption of the Zoning Ordinance are entirely located in a district in which the establishment of Trailer Courts is permitted by such Zoning Ordinance;
(d) After the effective date of this article, the Building Inspector shall first determine that every application to establish a new Trailer Court fully complies with the requirements of subsection (c) hereof, and shall then refer the application to the Board of Adjustment for its consideration and determination whether it shall be granted as a special exception in accordance with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance;
(e) Lots for individual trailers in a Trailer Court shall be indicated by corner markers and no individual lot shall have an area of less than 800 square feet. Each lot shall abut upon a roadway or driveway, not less than twenty feet wide. Every such roadway or driveway shall be well drained, shall be clearly marked, adequately lighted at night, and easily accessible to a public street. Lots for individual trailers shall be so located and arranged that when trailers are located thereon, the setback regulations of the Zoning Ordinance are adhered to;
(f) In each Trailer Court, a sufficient supply of pure, healthful drinking water from a source and of a quality approved by the Allegheny County Health Department, not more than fifty feet from any trailer, shall be provided in convenient locations. Waste from each outlet shall be emptied into a drain connected with an approved disposal system. No common drinking vessel shall be provided. An abundant supply of hot water shall be provided at all times for bathing, washing and laundry facilities;
(g) In each Trailer Court, toilet facilities, connected to a sanitary sewer or approved septic tank, shall be provided as follows: There shall be separate toilet rooms for each sex, located not more than 200 feet from any lot for an individual trailer. Such toilet rooms shall be provided with one flush toilet for each sex for each ten trailer lots or fraction thereof, and, in addition, one urinal for each toilet room provided for men. Each toilet room shall include lavatories with hot and cold water in the ratio of one lavatory to every two or less toilets. Toilet rooms shall be adequately heated when the outside temperature renders it necessary. No trailer provided with an inside toilet facility not connected to a sanitary sewer or an approved septic tank shall be accommodated in any Trailer Court unless there shall be available, in a room separate from the other toilet rooms, a hopper with flushing facilities for the disposal of the contents of night waste containers. Adequate facilities shall be provided for the washing of such containers, and the washings and hopper wastes shall be disposed of in such manner as shall be approved by the Allegheny County Health Department;
(h) In each Trailer Court, there shall be provided separate bathing facilities for each sex, with one shower or tub bath, enclosed in a compartment at least four feet square, for each sex for each ten trailer lots or fraction thereof. Each shower compartment shall be supplemented by an adjacent individual dressing compartment. Bathing facilities for each sex shall be located not more than 200 feet from any lot for an individual trailer. Bathing rooms shall be adequately heated when the outside temperature renders it necessary.
(i) In each Trailer Court, there shall be provided a laundry room, with laundry trays, in the ratio of one double tray for each ten individual trailer lots;
(j) Floors of toilet rooms, bathing rooms and laundry rooms in each trailer park shall be of concrete, tile or similar material impervious to water and easily cleaned, and pitched to a floor drain. Liquid wastes from toilets, baths, lavatories and laundry rooms shall be piped to a sanitary sewer or a septic tank approved by the Allegheny County Health Department;
(k) No cooking shall be permitted in any trailer not furnished with a sink and a connection with a sanitary sewer or approved septic tank unless there shall be located, within 150 feet of such trailer, a hopper or a kitchen or laundry sink for the disposal of dishwater. In every case, such facilities for the disposal of dishwater shall be separate from the hopper for the disposal of night wastes and the washings from night waste containers;
(l) All plumbing, electrical, building and other work in the premises of any Trailer Court located in the Borough shall be in accordance with any other ordinances of the Borough regulating such subjects. Provided, however; if there is any conflict between any such ordinance and any of the provisions of this article, the provisions of this article shall control as to Trailer Courts only;
(m) All ordinances of the Borough applicable to the accumulation, collection, segregation and disposal of garbage shall be applicable to Trailer Courts located in the Borough, and shall be adhered to strictly by persons owning and operating Trailer Courts and by persons occupying trailers therein;
(n) In every Trailer Court there shall be an office building in which shall be located the office of the person in charge of such Trailer Court. A copy of the permit issued under this article shall at all times be posted in such office, and the register of such Trailer Court shall at all times be kept therein;
(o) Every person holding a permit under this article shall keep, or cause to be kept, a register, which shall at all times be open for the inspection of any officials of the Borough. Such register shall show, for each trailer accommodated in such Trailer Court, the following information:
(1) The lot number upon which such trailer is parked or located;
(2) The names and addresses of all persons using such trailer for living or sleeping purposes;
(3) The State license number of such trailer and of the vehicle towing the same;
(4) The date of arrival of such trailer at such Trailer Court and the date of departure therefrom;
(p) Each person holding a permit under this article shall adhere to the following additional regulations at all times:
(1) He shall maintain such Trailer Court in a clean, orderly and sanitary condition;
(2) He shall see that no disorderly conduct or violation of any law or ordinance is committed upon the premises and shall immediately report to the proper authorities any violations which may come to his attention;
(3) He shall report to the Allegheny County Health Department all cases of persons or animals affected or suspected of being affected with any communicable disease, where he shall have reason to believe that medical attention has not been sought;
(4) He shall maintain in convenient places, designated by the Fire Chief of the Borough, hand fire extinguishers, in good working order, in the ratio of one to every eight trailer lots or fraction thereof;
(5) He shall prohibit the lighting of any open fire upon the premises;
(6) He shall prohibit the use of any trailer by a greater number of occupants than that which it is designed to accommodate;
(q) After the effective date of this article, if the use of any Trailer Court, the use of which is then legally existent, should be abandoned as such for any period of time, such Trailer Court shall not again be so used as a Trailer Court unless application for a permit be made and its subsequent use authorized in full compliance with the other requirements of this article.
(Ord. 989. Passed 10-2-67.)
(Ord. 989. Passed 10-2-67.)