(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) "Recreational and camping equipment" includes boats, boat trailers, snowmobiles, snowmobile trailers, utility trailers, recreational and camping vehicles.
(2) "Recreational and camping vehicles" means vehicular-type structures primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreation, camping or travel use which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle which is self-powered. "Recreational and camping vehicles" include, but are not necessarily limited to the following:
A. A "travel trailer" which is a rigid vehicular portable structure mounted on wheels, without its own motive power, of such size or weight as not to require special highway movement permits and primarily designed and constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping, travel or vacation use.
B. A "camping trailer" which is a vehicular portable structure mounted on wheels, without its own motive power, and constructed with folding or collapsible walls of fabric, plastic or other pliable material for folding compactly, and when unfolded at a site or location, provides temporary living quarters and whose primary design is for recreation, camping, travel or vacation use.
C. A "truck camper" which is a portable structure without its own motive power, designed to be loaded onto, or affixed to, the bed or chassis of a powered vehicle designed and constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping, travel or vacation use.
D. A "motor home" which is a structure built on and made an integral part of a self-propelled motor vehicle chassis other than a passenger car chassis, primarily designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping and travel use.
(3) A "boat, boat trailer or utility trailer" includes any boat or trailer used for the purpose of hauling boats and related boating equipment, or any trailer drawn by another motor vehicle which is used to transport animals or for the occasional transport of camping or other equipment or personal effects.
(4) "Parking for the purpose of storage" means the placement or parking of recreational and camping equipment anywhere in a residential district, for any period of time other than that time actually spent for the ordinary, customary and reasonable time required for loading, unloading, outfitting or otherwise preparing for recreational use. An owner or operator whose use of such vehicle as a recreational or camping vehicle is only incidental to its primary use for general transportation purposes shall not be deemed to be parking such vehicle for the purpose of storage within the meaning of this section.
(b) The parking of recreational and camping equipment for the purpose of storage shall be permitted in residential districts, so long as such parking for the purpose of storage is not in any public street or right of way, nor in the minimum front, side and rear yards required by Sections 1149.01 and 1149.08, and provided that at no time shall such vehicles so parked in a residential district be occupied or used for living, sleeping, housekeeping or business purposes.
(Ord. 29-77. Passed 6-13-77.)