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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0221NORDINANCE NO. 221 (New Series) AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION, SANITA- TION AND CONDUCT OF TRAILER CAMPS `WITHIN THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO; PROHIBITING SQUATTERS AND SQUATTER CA%,iPS Z'�TITHIN SAID CITY AND PROVIDING PEN- ALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF SUCH ORDINANCE. . BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of this ordinance certain words and phrases are defined as follows:- "Person" means a corporation, copartnership or association as well as a natural person. "Family" is one person living alone or a group of two or more persons living together, either related to each other or not. "Trailer Coach" means a vehicle, either with or without motive power, which is designed, used or intended for use as a place for human habitation, or as eating, sleeping or living quarters, or any combination thereof. "Trailer Camp" means any area or tract of land or city lot, where two or more trailer coaches are parked, maintained or used; any area or tract of land or city lot, where space is rented, or held out for rent, to owners or users of trailer coaches; or any area or tract of land or city lot, where the free use of space is permitted to owners or users of trailer coaches. "Camp site" means the area of Ground set apart or rented within a trailer camp for the exclusive use of a trailer coach. "Squatter" is one who settles or locates on land, enclosed or unenclosed, with no bona fide claim or color of title or without the express consent of the owner or person legally in charge of the land. "Squatter Camp" is the area of land occupied by a squatter. "Health Department" is the Health Department of the City of San Luis Obispo and shall include the City Health Officer and the - 1 - o?,�_)l duly authorized representatives and deputies of said department or Health Officer. SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful to construct, reconstruct, operate, maintain or begin the operation of any trailer camp within the City of San Luis Obispo without first securing a permit from the Health Department of said city. SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to use, occupy or maintain any trailer coach upon any area or tract of land without the permission of the owner or person in charge of such land. SECTION 4. It shall be unlawful for any person using, occupying or maintaining any trailer coach to camp or park such coach over night on any portion of any street in the City of San Luis Obispo or on any public park or other public area, including school property. SECTION 5. Each camp site in a trailer camp shall be not less than twenty by twenty -five feet in dimensions. SECTION 6. A trailer camp shall not accommodate any trailer coach for which there is no available camp site in the trailer camp. SECTION 7. In every trailer camp, public flush water- closets in separate compartments shall be installed for each sex within two hundred feet of each part of the camp. There shall be not less than one water- closet, for each sex, for each ten trailer coaches or frac- tional part of ten trailer coaches in any trailer camp. SECTION 8. In every trailer camp water- closets for men shall be distinctly marked: "For Men "; and water- closets for women shall be distinctly marked: "For Women ". In addition, the location of water - closets shall be plainly indicated by signs. SECTION 9. In every trailer camp the floor of each water- closet shall be constructed, and shall be condition by the use of cement, concrete, The water -proof material shall be applied of the water- closet, to a height -, of not V the floor. - 2 - maintained in a water -proof or other water -proof material. upward on the interior walls Less than twelve inches above SECTION 10. It is unlawful for any person to use, or permit the use of, any toilet in any trailer coach located or parked within a trailer camp. SECTION 11. In every trailer camp, public shower baths or other bathing facilities with running water shall be installed in separate compartments for each sex. There shall be not less than one bathing compartment, for each sex, for each ten trailer coaches or fractional p art of ten trailer coaches in any trailer camp. SECTION 12. In every trailer camp, the floor of every shower bath compartment shall be constructed, and shall be maintained in a water -proof condition by the use of cement, concrete, or other approved water -proof material. The water -proof material shall be applied upward on the interior walls of the compartment to a height,; ✓ of not less than five feet above the floor. SECTION 13. In every trailer camp each water - closet and each compartment containing bathing facilities shall be: (a) Kept clean. (b) Kept free from obnoxious odors, flies, mosquitoes or other insects. air. (c) 1,%iell lighted, and ventilated directly to the outside (d) Kept lighted from sunset to sunrise with a proper light. SECTION 14. There shall be installed in every trailer camp one or more slop sinks which shall be: sewer. (a) Properly trapped and connected with the public sanitary (b) Conveniently located within one hundred feet of each trailer coach or camp site. SECTION 15. There shall be in every trailer camp an adequate supply of clean water for all requirements of the camp. The water shall be obtainable from faucets installed within one hundred feet of each part of the camp. - 3 - SECTION 16. No dipping facilities or cups for common use shall be permitted in any trailer camp. SECTION 17. In every trailer camp one or more metal gar- bage cans, of sufficient size, with tight fitting covers, appropriate- ly labeled, shall be provided for every six, or fractional part of six trailer coaches or camp sites within the camp. SECTION 18. All garbage, waste and rubbish in every trailer camp shall be removed from the premises without creating a nuisance, in such manner as may be approved by the Health Department. Incin- erators for burning.combustible rubbish shall be provided in every trailer camp. SECTION 19. Buckets or other suitable receptacles shall be placed in such manner as to receive all water or waste which may be deposited from any refrigerator, drain, sink or waste pipe of any trailer coach which is located or parked in a trailer camp. It shall be unlawful to permit such buckets or receptacles to overflow. SECTION 20. When any trailer coach is located or parked within a. trailer camp, the buckets or receptacles shall be emptied and their contents disposed of only in the slop sink required by this ordinance. SECTION 21. The area or tract of land upon which a trailer camp is maintained shall be well drained and graded, and kept free from dust. SECTION 22. Every trailer coach and trailer camp shall be kept clean; and shall be free from the accumulation of refuse, garbage, rubbish or debris; and from an excessive infestation of flies or insects. SECTION 23. maintain, or cause or camp, unless there is taker shall enforce w It is unlawful for any person to operate or permit to be operated or maintained, any trailer rea ,sanable a caretaker in the camp at ali /times. The care - ithin the camp the provisions of this ordinance governing the operation and maintenance of trailer camps. - 4 - SECTION 24. Every person who owns or operates g trailer camp shall keep a register in lihich shall be entered (a) the name and address of each guest who is the owner or user of a trailer coach for which space is provided in the camp, and (b) the make, type and license number of an. -r automobile belonging to such guest. SECTION 25. Any trailer coach.' f rom which the wheels have been removed, except for the purpose of making temporary repairs or placing it in dead storage, is a permanent residence. Such trailer coach shall meet all the requirements of the Building Code and Housing Ordinances of the City of San Luis Obispo and of the State Housing laws. SECTION 26. No squatter or squatter caEip shall be permitted within the City of San Luis Obispo, and it shall be unlawful for any person to become a squatter, or to maintain a squatter camp in said city. SECTION 27. No habitation or shelter constructed of sacks, rags, bush, cans or refuse material of an objectionable nature, or by any combination of the foregoing shall be permitted in any trailer camp. SECTION 28. No camping party nor family shall be allowed or permitted to live in a tent or other temporary structure in a trailer camp; nor shall any person be allowed to live in a trailer camp in such manner as to be without protection from the elements. SECTION 29. Dogs shall not be permitted to run at large in any trailer camp. SECTION 30. It shall be the duty of the owner and caretaker of any trailer camp to report immediately to the Cith Health Officer by telephone and by writing, any person residing in such trailer camp having or reasonably suspected of having any infectious or contagious disease. SECTION 31. It shall be the duty of the Health Department and of the Police Department to enforce all of the provisions of this ordinance. For the purpose of securing enforcement, the City Health Officer or any of his duly authorized representatives shall have the right, and are hereby empowered to enter upon any public or private - 5 - property within the City of San Luis Obispo to inspect such accommoda- tions or installations thereon as may be covered by the provisions of this ordinance. SECTION 32. Anything in this ordinance to the contrary not- withstanding, the City Health Officer may grant special exemption.per- mits in isolated sections of the city where the application of this ordinance or any of the provisions thereof would, in his discretion, be impracticable or unnecessary. SECTION 33. Any person, firm or corporation violating, or contributing in any way to the violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be prosecuted by a fine not exceeding $300.00 or by imprisonment in the county jail of the County of San Luis Obispo for a period not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprison- ment. SECTION 34. Every violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall 'be construed as a separate offense for each day during; which such violation continues and shall be punishable as here- in provided. SECTION 35. If any section, sub - section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be unconsti- tutional, such.decision shall not affect the validity of the remain- ing portions, of the ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and every section, sub -sec- Lion, sentence, clause or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sub - sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. SECTION 36. This ordinance, together with the ayes and noes, shall be published for two days before its final passage in the Telegram- Tribune, a daily newspaper printed, published and circulated in said city. SECTION 37. This ordinance is hereby declared to be urgent and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, - h - T -r 1 health and safety, and it shall take effect and be in force from and after its final passage. Such urgency consists in the fact that within recent weeks there has been a large influx of trailer coaches into the City of San Luis Obispo, thus creating a health and sanitary problem, for which no regulatory ordinance has been provided. INTRODUCED AND PASSED TO PRINT this 9th . day -of December, 1940, by the following; vote: AYES: W.H. Bra zil- R.P.Howell, Ra1nh C. Kennedy, F C_Kimball NOES: None ABSENT; None ( Joseph Leary not voting j Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Finally passed this 16th day of December 119404 the following vote : Ayes : W.H.Brazil.R.P.Ra -well Eni ph r C Kimhall , 11c)senja Leary Noes : None Absent: None ATTEST : City Clerk - 7 - • NU WA