Poway Municipal Code Art. II Use and Storage of Trailers

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words are defined as follows:

A.

“Farm employee mobile home”

is a mobile home maintained exclusively for the occupancy of farm employees and their families in connection with farm work being performed on the premises upon which the mobile home is situated. A farm employee is a person other than the owner or lessee of the property who derives more than half of his total livelihood as an “agricultural employee” as defined by the Matorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975.

B.

“Trailer coach”

means any vehicle, with or without motive power, designed or used for human occupancy for residential, recreational, industrial, professional or commercial purposes and includes commercial coach, mobile home, recreational vehicle and travel trailer as said terms are defined in Part 2.1 of Division 8 of the Health and Safety Code.

(CC §§ 56.202, 56.202.5; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

No person shall use, occupy or store any trailer coach in the City except as provided in this chapter; provided, however, that this chapter shall not apply to use, occupancy or storage of trailer coaches in any incidental camping area, mobile home park, recreational trailer park or camping area, temporary trailer park or travel trailer park subject to Part 2.1, commencing with Section 18200, of Division 13 of the Health and Safety Code (Mobilehome Park Act) or in any labor camp subject to Chapter 4, commencing with Section 2610, Part 9, Division 2 of the Labor Code or in any supervised public park, public campground or picnic ground owned, operated and maintained by the Federal government, the State or any agency or political subdivision of the State. Nor shall this chapter apply to a mobile home sited on a permanent foundation pursuant to an approved conditional use permit as authorized by the zoning ordinance.

(CC § 56.201; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

The provisions of this chapter shall not authorize the use, occupancy or storage of a trailer coach contrary to the provisions of the zoning ordinance.

(CC § 56.203; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

The use, occupancy or storage of a trailer coach which was lawful on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter but which does not conform to the requirements thereof may be continued until, but not after January 1, 1970. Any change in the use, occupancy or storage of a trailer coach shall conform to all of the requirements of this chapter.

(CC § 56.204; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

It is the duty of the Health Officer to enforce the provisions of this chapter. The Health Officer or any regularly appointed sanitarian or employee of the Department of Health Services shall be empowered to make arrests and issue citations pursuant to Penal Code Sections 836.5 and 853.6 for violations of this chapter.

(CC § 56.206; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

Any person using, occupying or storing a trailer coach contrary to the provisions of this article or contrary to the provisions of any permit issued pursuant to this chapter is guilty of an infraction. Any trailer coach so used, occupied or stored is declared to be a public nuisance.

(CC § 56.205; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)