Hawthorne Municipal Code Ch. 10.87 Mobile Living Units

The following words and phrases, as used in this chapter, are defined as follows:

"Mobile living unit"

means a camp car, commercial coach, mobile home, recreational vehicle, motor home, van, park trailer, camper, special purpose commercial modular, or travel trailer, as each of these terms is defined in California Health and Safety Code Sections 18001.8, 18008, 18009.3, 18010, 18012.5 and 18013.4 and a camp trailer, house car or trailer coach, as each of these terms is defined in California Vehicle Code Sections 242, 362 and 635 or any other vehicle or structure originally designed or permanently altered in such a manner as will permit occupancy or use thereof for living or sleeping purposes, and so designed or equipped with wheels, or capable of being mounted on wheels, and used as a conveyance on public streets or highways, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive power, excepting a vehicle or device used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

"Person"

means and includes any natural person, partnership, firm, company, corporation, trust, or unincorporated association.

(Ord. 1291 § 1, 1983; Ord. 1949 § 1, 2009)

It is unlawful for any person to occupy or use any mobile living unit for living or sleeping purposes upon any street, alley, lane, highway, municipal off-street parking lot or other public place, or upon any lot, piece, parcel or tract of land within the city except as provided in this section:

A. Within a lawfully established and licensed mobile home park, recreational trailer park, or travel trailer park as defined in California Health and Safety Code Sections 18214, 18862.39, 18862.43 and 18862.47, or other like facility which is designed and equipped to operate for the purpose of providing temporary or permanent accommodations for such mobile living units; and

B. A mobile living unit may be occupied or used for sleeping purposes only by friends, relatives or visitors on land entirely owned by or leased to the host person for a period of not to exceed thirty days in any one calendar year; provided, that the mobile living unit shall not be connected to any utility, other than temporary electricity hookups; and provided, further, that the host person shall receive no compensation for such occupancy or use. All temporary electrical hookup facilities shall comply with applicable state law and this code. No such mobile living units shall discharge any litter, sewage, effluent or other matter except into sanitary facilities designed to dispose of such material.

(Ord. 1291 § 1, 1983; Ord. 1949 § 1, 2009)

Subject to the exceptions set forth in Section 10.87.020, it is unlawful for any owner, lessee or occupant of any lot, piece, parcel or tract of land within the city, whether for gain, hire, reward, gratuitously or otherwise, to permit the same to be occupied or used by any mobile living unit for living or sleeping purposes.

(Ord. 1291 § 1, 1983; Ord. 1949 § 1, 2009)

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to prohibit the owner or operator of any mobile living unit from parking or storing his or her mobile living unit upon premises owned, leased or otherwise fully occupied or used by him or her, so long as such mobile living unit is not occupied or used for living or sleeping purposes in violation of the provisions of this chapter, Title 17—Zoning, of this code, or any other applicable ordinance or regulation of the city.

(Ord. 1291 § 1, 1983; Ord. 1949 § 1, 2009)

Any person who intentionally violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor or shall be subject to the administrative remedies contained in Chapters 1.23A and/or 1.23B of the Hawthorne Municipal Code.

(Ord. 1291 § 1, 1983; Ord. 1949 § 1, 2009)