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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5809r - ' _'R ORDIN., NCE # C9 - - "AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE REGULATING THE SANITATION, CONDUjT AND MAINTENANCE OF CAMP GROUNDS AND AUT01OBILE CG.�. P GROUNDS AND THE USE OF T:ttiIL R HOUSES OR AUTOMOBILE HOUSE C'IRS USED FOR LIVING PURPOSES IN THE CITY OF LITTLE tiOCK; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF; AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS SECTION 1. For the purpose of this Ordinance, the following terms shall be deemed and construed to have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Section unless from the particular context it clearly appears that some other meaning is intended: P]'_�RLON -'he word "person" shall mean and include both the singular and plural and shall also mean and include person, individual, firm, corpora- tion, co- partnership, association, club, society, or any other organization. �,UALIFIED Ch.P G {OU111D - Shall mean and in-, Clude a place operated by a person who has obtained from the Health Department of the City of Little Nock a permit to operate a place where may be maintained, placed, parked or located house cars, or trailer houses. HOUSE CAR OR THAILEa HOUSE - include any house being used as living humans, vehicular in design, which may or propelled from one location to anot change in structure or design, whether be supported by wheels. Shall mean and quarters for be driven, towed -ier without or not the same SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the Health De- partment of the i3ity of Little Rock to enforce all of the pro- visions of this Ordinance and for the purpose of securing enforcement shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon the premises of any camp ground, trailer house or house car, now or hereafter, operated within the City of Little Rock for the purpose of carrying oat the provisions of this Ordinance. SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to camp, place, stand, park or locate any house car or trailer house in the City of Little -'.ock except within a qualified camp ground. Provided, however, that the same may be parked outside of a jualifiec camp ground for a period not to exceed twenty -four (24) hours continuous time, and, provided further, that any person desiring to camp, place, stand, park or locate any house car or trailer house in the liity of Little mock out- side of a qualified camp ground for twenty -four (24) hours continuous time, shall first apply for and obtain from the Police Department of the amity of Little Nock a permit to do so, which application shall give the location at which such house car or trailer house is to be located, the Mate vehicle license number, and a general description of the house car or trailer house for which permission to locate is being applied. ti 2 - Upon such information having been supplied to the Police Department said Department shall grant a permit to locate such house car or trailer house in the place indicated in such application for a period not longer than twenty -four (24) hours. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, stand, park, or locate any house car or trailer house at a location other than that approved by the Police Department for that purpose. SECTION 4. No person shall stand, park, place, or locate, or permit to be stood, parked, placed, or located upon any property belonging to him, or under his control, any house car, unless the person in control of said house car have a valid unrevoked and unexpired permit from the Police Department to maintain such house car as provided in Section 3 hereof, or unless such person permitting such standing, parking, placing, or locating shall have first obtained a permit to operate a qualified camp ground from the Health Department of the City of Little Rock. SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, maintain and offer for public use riithin the City of Little Rock a camp ground without first applying for, and re- ceiving from the Health Department of the City of Little Rock a permit to do so as hereinafter provided. SECTION 6. Every application for a permit to operate a qualified camp ground in the City of Little Rock shall be in writing, upon a form provided by the Health Department for that purpose. It shall state the name and address of the applicant and a description of the property whereon or wherein it is proposed to conduct such camp ground. Said application shall also contain such other information as the Health Department may require and shall be filed by the applicant not less than thirty (30) days before said camp ground is to be made ready for use, and shall be accompanied by an inspection fee of Five Dollars 0 5.00) for which the Health Department shall issue a receipt. SECTION 7. Upon the filing of the application ac- companied by the inspection fee, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer or any of his duly authorized representatives to investigate the premises and determine whether said proposed camp ground or the site selected therefor conforms with the requirements of this Ordinance, the rules and regulations of the Health Department, and the laws of the State; and no permit shall be issued unless such camp ground or the site selected therefor complies -,-.ith such requirements and meets with the approval of the Health Department. Said Department shall rejec any application that does not comply with all Ordinances of the City of Little Rock and laws of the State. Provided, however, that any person aggrieved by the decision of the Health Officer may, within ten (10) days thereafter apply to the City Council for a hearing as to the matters in question. '.°hereupon a time for hearing shall be set which shall be not later than ten (10) days thereafter at which time a full and complete hearing shall be had before the City Council, and the City Council shall con - firm, modify or disapprove the action of the Health Department. - 3 - SECTION 8. Whenever inspection by the Health Officer of any qualified camp ground indicates that unsanitary condi- tions exist therein the Health Officer shall notify the person in charge of said qualified camp ground in writing of such fact and shall set forth in said notice a description of the condi- tion which makes unsanitary the operation of said qualified camp ground and shall further direct that said condition be remedied by commencing to remedy the same within twenty -four (24) hours of receipt of notice and to continue thereafter dili- gently and continuously until said unsanitary condition has been abated. If after said notice said condition is not remedied or if it appears that any other violation of law exists, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer and the Health Officer may, in adli:ition to other penalties provided by this Ordinance, suspend or recommend the revocation of said permit as herein provided. SECTION 9. any permit issued hereunder shall be trans- ferrable upon a written application of the holder of the same to the Health Department, with its consent endorsed thereon. SECTION 10. any permit issued 'hereunder shall entitle the permittee to obtain a license to carry on the business of a qualified camp ground upon the payment of the license fee as required. SECTION 11. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain, conduct or carry on any qualified camp ground within the City unless there shall be at all times posted in a conspicious place therein the permit obtained from the Health Department. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to camp, place, stand, park or locate any house car or trailer house outside of a qualified camp ground in the city unless there shall be at all times posted in a conspicious place there- in the permit obtained from the Police Department as herein provided. _ECTION 12. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct, carry on or maintain any qualified camp ground within the City which does not have adequate toilet facilities for men separate and apart from adequate toilet facilities for women, equipped with water -flush type toilets; adequate shower facilities for men, separate and apart from adequate shower facilities for women; adequate tight metal receptacles for gar- bage and rubbish and an adequate and sufficient supply of pure water for drinking purposes and an adequate supply of pure water for domestic purposes, which said water shall be obtained from faucets only, conveniently located in said camp ground and no dipping vessels or common cups shall be permitted. (b) No permit shall be issued hereunder to carry on a qualified camp ground unless applicant complies with all of the sanitation, electrical, sewer, health, plumbing, fire, and building codes and Ordinances of the City relating to the same. (c) Every toilet, shower, slop sink and every other container used for the purpose of discharging or drainage of waste water shall be connected with the City sewer system. {, . , a - 4 - (d) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate and maintain a house car in the J'ity which does not have reasonable immediate accessibility and use of adequate toilet facilities, adequate receptacles for garbage and rubbish and an adequate supply of pure , -qater for drinking and domestic purposes. (e) It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit any garbage or other improper substance or any drain• age or wash water upon the premises of any camp ground, except in the proper receptacles provided therefor. (f) There shall be provided in every camp ground one (1) or more slop sinks, properly connected with a sewer, the same to be conveniently located at no greater distance from the or any house car than 'Iwo Hundred (200) feet. (g) every camp ground operator shall provide metal receptacles with tight - fitting lids with openings in top not to exceed two (2) inches in diameter for the use of each individual house car, or said camp ground operator shall provide immediate sewer drainage connections for each indivi- dual trailer house or house car, and it shall be unlawful for any person to permit the flow from said trailer house or house car of any waste dilater except in or through the receptacles or sewer connections as above provided. SECTION 13. Every camp ground hereinafter establishes in the City shall be laid out with, and all existing camp grounds shall provide available unoccupied space of not less than four hundred (400) square feet together with three (3) foot side yard for each house c -�r trailer house, or automobile, and shall be arranged in rows abutting or facing; on a driveway or clear unoccupied space of not less t:zan sixteen (lo) feet in width which space shall have unobstructed access to the public street or alley and it shall be unlawful for any person to main. tain conduct or permit the maintenance or conducting of any house car or t-- _,ailer house ;,hick shall be less than eight (S) feet apart from any other such house car or trailer house. SECTION 14.. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person owning, or operating a house car in the 0"ity to remove or cause to be removed the wheels or any similar transporting device from said house car, or to otherwise permanently fix it to the ground in a manner that would prevent the ready removal of said house car, without first having obtained a permit so to do from the Health Officer. (b) The continued use of any house car or trailer house within any qualified camp ground as herein de- fined for a period o_"' time of more than ninety (90) days shall be construed as removing said rouse car or trailer house from the requirements of this Ordinance and converting it into a dwelling, and it shall thereupon be subject to the requirements of the :.wilding Jode . (c) Any alteration to any house car as above set i'orth shall Ue so construed as removing it from tie the requirements of this Ordinance and converting it into a dwelling and it shall thereupon be subject to the requirements of the Euildin_ lode. � EC_' T IUN 15. ( a ) -Every carp ground shall be pro ,� ided Wraith sufficient means o li,`hting the same at night, and all roadaaays, water closets and 'oath units shall be provided r «ith • . . IF 4 ! • - 5 - sufficient lighting facilities and shall be kept lighted during the ti-ie from one -half hour after sunset until one -half hour before sunrise. Every applicant shall submit a plan of intended con- struction-to the Electrical Department of the City which shall set out the place, type anti ner of electrical fixtures`, the construction"'of which shall � a, pproved by said Electrical Department. (b) All land used as a qualified camp ground shall be located on well drained sites of ample size, free from heavy or dense growth of brush or iJeeds . The land shall be free from marsh and shall be graded to insure rapid drainage during and following rain, and it shall be unlawful to permit water to accumulate or stand upon the ground of any qualified camp ground. SECTION 16. No dog or other animal shall be permit- ted to run at larLe in any qualified camp ground. SECTION 17. Every qualified camp ground shall main- tain a manager in charge thereof. Such manager shall require all persons using such qualified camp -round to register in a book kept for that purpose.whi.ch registration shall show the date, the name and address of said person, together with the make of automobile and the correct automobile license number. Every such manager shall preserve such register and endorse upo the same the date of departure of the person registered therein and it shall be unlawful for any person to make any false entry or erase or alter or suffer or permit to be erased or altered any name, address, registration number or other information therein and said register shall at all times be open to inspec- tion of the Police Department. SEJJ:ION 18. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the City jail for a period not exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine not to exceed 1' ive Hundred Dollars ( ti'50C . 00) , or by both such fine and imprisonment; and each such person as principal, agent, or otherwise, shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of which the violating of, or failure, neglect or refusal to comply with any of the provision of this Ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person. ATTE 'T: CITY CLERK PASSED: November 13th, 1939 APPROV'D: W, A