Plumas County Municipal Code Ch. 10 Mobile Home Installations

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Editor's note— Sections 8-10.01 through 8-10.03, as added by Ordinance No. 74-53, effective July 1, 1974, as amended by Ordinance No. 74-59, effective August 15, 1974, Sections 8-10.04 and 8-10.06, as added by said Ordinance No. 74-59, and Section 8-10.07, as added by Ordinance No. 81-417, effective February 5, 1981, amended in their entirety by Ordinance No. 82-487, effective March 11, 1982. Section 8-10.05, as added by said Ordinance No. 74-59, repealed by Ordinance No. 81-458, effective October 1, 1981.

(a) Installation of a mobile home in the unincorporated area of Plumas County shall require a permit issued by the County Building Official. Inspections that are required as conditions of the permit shall be made by the Building Official's designated building inspectors in accordance with state regulations set forth in Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations.

(b) Prior to installing a mobile home in any mobile home park or on any parcel of land, the owner of the mobile home shall notify the County Assessor and shall provide such information as the Assessor requires.

(§ 1, Ord. 82-487, eff. March 11, 1982, and § 9, Ord. 02-984, adopted November 12, 2002)

Application, installation, inspection and reinspection fees shall be required in the amounts set forth in Plumas County's Master Fee Resolution, a schedule of county fees adopted from time to time by the Plumas County Board of Supervisors.

(§ 1, Ord. 82-487, eff. March 11, 1982, as amended by § 1, Ord. 89-711, eff. June 1, 1989, and § 9, Ord. 02-984, adopted November 12, 2002)

(a) Mobile homes constructed after October 7, 1973, and placed in the County after July 1, 1974, shall be designed to withstand wind pressures of fifteen (15) pounds per square foot and support the design snow load in effect in the particular area in which the mobile home is to be placed.

(b) Mobile homes constructed prior to October 7, 1973, and mobile homes manufactured outside the State, which mobile homes are unable to meet the wind and snow loads established in the area in which they are to be placed, shall not be installed on individual parcels except as follows:

(1) Mobile homes placed on individual parcels may be installed in conjunction with a ramada constructed to County requirements.

(2) Mobile homes unable to meet wind and snow load criteria may be installed in mobile home parks in accordance with the installation standards set forth in Title 25 of the California Administrative Code.

(c) Manufactured homes that are placed or substantially improved within an area of special flood hazard identified by the Federal Insurance Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, shall be elevated on a foundation system pursuant to Section 18551 of the Health and Safety Code such that the lowest floor of the manufactured home is elevated to or above the base flood elevation and shall be securely anchored to an adequately anchored foundation system to resist flotation collapse and lateral movement.

(§ 1, Ord. 82-487, eff. March 11, 1982, as amended by § 2 (Exh. A), Ord. 98-902, eff. September 10, 1998)

(a) All occupied mobile homes shall be skirted around their perimeter, or the underside shall be otherwise obscured with decks.

(b) No structure or occupied mobile home shall have any portion of its exterior roofing and/or siding which is readily visible from adjacent or nearby property constructed of reflective or glaring metallic material.

(c) The exterior style of all structures and occupied mobile homes which are constructed, reconstructed, or placed in the County shall be subject to the approval of the Building Official as to compatibility with the existing structures and habitations in the neighborhood, and any such facilities which are incompatible shall be prohibited.

(§ 1, Ord. 82-487, eff. March 11, 1982)