Delano Municipal Code Ch. 7.20 Campgrounds and Trailers

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State Law reference— For statutory provisions governing mobilehome parks, see Health & Saf. Code §18200 et seq.; for the statutory provisions allowing cities to regulate mobilehomes in the exercise of the general police power, see Health & Saf. Code §18300(a) to (d).

For the purpose of this chapter certain words and phrases are defined as follows:

A. "Camp car or trailer" is any unit used for living or sleeping purposes and which is equipped with wheels or similar devices used for transporting the unit from place to place;

B. "Campground" is any place, area, lot, piece, parcel or tract of land upon which is located any camp car or trailer;

C. "Health department" means the health department or the health officer of the city or of the county as authorized by the city council.

(Ord. 167 § 1, 1939).

It shall be the duty of the health department or the health officer of the city or the duly authorized health officer of the county as authorized by the city council to enforce all of the provisions of this chapter and for the purpose of securing enforcement thereof. Any official of the city shall have the right of entry into buildings or premises regulated by this chapter in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 1.08.

(Ord. 167 §2, 1939).

It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate or maintain, or to offer for public use or to use, within the city limits any campground without first applying for and receiving from the health department or health officer a permit so to do or without complying with the regulations hereinafter set forth or any rules or regulations which may be formulated for the health department and no permit shall be issued unless such campground complies with such rules and regulations and gets the approval of the health department; the fee for the permit shall be in the sum of ten dollars per year, payable in advance.

(Ord. 167 §3, 1939).

Any permit granted hereunder shall be subject to revocation or suspension by the health department at any time that the health department or health officer deems that the campground does not conform to the rules and regulations and requirements of this chapter or the rules and regulations of the health department.

(Ord. 167 §4, 1939).

Such permits shall be transferable and shall expire one calendar year following the date of issuing.

(Ord. 167 §5, 1939).

The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to every campground within the limits of Delano and it is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, maintaining, operating, conducting or carrying on any such campground or for any person living or sleeping in any camp car or trailer located in the campground or any other person to violate, or contribute in any way to the violation, of any of the provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. 167 §6, 1939).

No campground hereafter established shall be located within the following areas of the city: R 1 zone, R 2 zone, R 4 zone and C zone, as defined by ordinance No. 142. [4]

(Ord. 167 §7, 1939).

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Editor's note— Ord. 142, the former zoning ordinance, was repealed by Ords. 229 and 601.

The health department is empowered to formulate from time to time and to enforce any rules and regulations that the department deems advisable governing the operation of campgrounds or camp cars or trailers bearing on any matters of sanitation or housing.

(Ord. 167 §8, 1939).

It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning or operating a camp car or trailer located in a campground to remove or cause to be removed wheels or any similar transportation device from the camp car or trailer or to in any wise permanently fix it to the ground in a manner that would prevent the ready removal of the camp car or trailer. Any alteration to any camp car or trailer, as above set forth, shall be construed as removing it from the requirements of this chapter and converting it into a dwelling and it shall thereupon be subject to the requirements of the building code of the city and the State Housing Act of California.

(Ord. 167 §9, 1939).

It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, leasing, renting or operating a campground in the city to comply with all of the provisions of this chapter and all rules and regulations formulated by the health department or health officer governing campgrounds, and any such person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations or contributing in any wise to the violation thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in Chapter 1.16.

(Ord. 167 §10, 1939).

This chapter establishes the law of this city respecting the subject to which it relates.

(Ord. 167 §11, 1939).