San Bruno Municipal Code Ch. 4.52 Trailers and Trailer Courts

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

"Camp car"

means any vehicle designed for human habitation and for carrying persons and property on its own structure, including vehicles which have detachable sleeping quarters or camp units.

"Camp site"

means that portion of any trailer camp designed for the use or occupancy of one trailer or one camp car or one camping party.

"Trailer camp"

means any area or tract of land in the city where two or more trailer coaches or camp cars are maintained or used for a continuing period in excess of three days, or where space is rented or held out for rent to owners or users of trailer coaches or camp cars or free camping is permitted such persons, for the purpose of securing their trade.

"Trailer coach"

means a vehicle without motive power designed for human habitation and for carrying persons and property on its own structure, and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.

(Prior code § 24-1; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

No person shall own, operate or manage, or permit to be owned, operated or managed, upon any premises or property under his or her control any trailer camp in the city, without having first applied for and received permission for such operation or maintenance from the city council. No such trailer camp shall be maintained in any residential portion of the city, nor within the portion of the commercial district of the city embraced within the confines of fire zone 2 of the city.

(Prior code § 24-2; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

No person shall use or inhabit or cause or permit to be used or inhabited any trailer coach or camp car in any place or on any premises outside of a regularly established, inspected and licensed trailer camp within the city for a period of more than three days in any three-month period, without having first applied for and received from the city council a permit for such use and inhabitation. No such permit shall be granted for a period of more than two weeks or unless it clearly appears that compliance has been fully made with the sanitary conditions referred to in this chapter.

(Prior code § 24-3; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

A. Any person applying for a permit to construct, own, operate or maintain a trailer camp shall first pay to the license collector of the city the sum of fifty dollars, which shall be paid into the general fund of the city for the purpose of defraying expenses of inspection, checking of premises and other incidental costs relating to the inspection and regulation of trailer camps in the city.

B. Any person applying for a permit to use or inhabit a trailer coach or camp car in any place or on any premises outside of a regularly established, inspected and licensed trailer camp shall first pay to the tax collector of the city the sum of one dollar, which fee shall be paid into the general fund of the city for the purposes referred to above.

C. All such license fees shall be in addition to all other licenses and permit fees required by this code or any ordinance of the city.

(Prior code § 24-4; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

No permit required by this chapter shall be issued by the tax collector of the city pursuant to this chapter until such officer shall have been satisfied that all of the requirements of this chapter, together with all of the state rules and regulations have been complied with.

(Prior code § 24-5; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

Any trailer coach or camp car from which the wheels have been removed, except for the purpose of making temporary repairs, or any trailer coach or camp car or the detachable portion of a camp car which has sleeping quarters or camp units, owned, parked, used or inhabited upon any public or private property not duly and regularly authorized and licensed as a trailer camp under the terms of this chapter, for more than three consecutive days in any period of one month shall be deemed a building and structure within the requirements of any building regulations and ordinances, and the state housing laws.

(Prior code § 24-6; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

No person shall use, occupy or maintain any trailer coach or camp car upon any area or tract or lot of land in the city without permission to do so from the owner or person legally in charge of such land.

(Prior code § 24-7; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

No person shall store for more than seventy-two hours any trailer coach or camp car, with the wheels thereof either attached or detached, when not in use, in any other place in the city than in a garage wherein the business of storing automobiles for hire is carried on, or in some other garage consisting of a building enclosed on four sides, or a carport, in which the business of storing automobiles for hire is not carried on.

(Prior code § 24-8; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

Any trailer coach or camp car, the detachable portion of a camp car which has sleeping quarters or camp units or any trailer camp which is owned, operated, used or maintained in violation of the regulations of this chapter is declared to be a nuisance, and shall be abated by proper action brought for that purpose in conformity with the provisions of the Government and Penal Codes of the state and in conformity with the provisions of this code including, but not limited to, Title 5 (Nuisances).

(Prior code § 24-9; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

In the event that any trailer coach or camp car is placed or located or allowed to stand in any place in the city in violation of the provisions of this chapter, or shall be used for any purpose in violation of the provisions of this chapter, it shall be the duty of the health or police officers of the city to seize such trailer coach or camp car and to cause the same to be taken to some garage in the city wherein automobiles may be stored for hire, or to some other location which may be provided by the city. The expenses of towing such trailer to such garage, or to such other place, and of storing of the same, shall be discharged by the person owning or operating such trailer or camp car. In the event that any trailer or camp car shall be seized and stored in any such garage or other place, pursuant to the provisions of this section, such trailer or camp car shall be kept in any such garage or other place for a period of five days. If at the end of such period of five days the costs and expenses of taking such trailer or camp car to such garage or other place and expenses of storing the same in such garage or other place for such period of five days shall not have been paid, the chief of police shall cause such trailer or camp car to be sold at public auction, after giving notice in the manner and for the time prescribed by law for the sale of motor vehicles to satisfy the claims of persons who have performed repair work upon such motor vehicles.

(Prior code § 24-10; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)

A. No person shall use or occupy any motor vehicle, camp car, or trailer coach for human habitation, either singly or in groups, on any street, in any park, or in any public or private off-street parking lot within the city, between the hours of ten p.m. of any day and six a.m. of the next ensuing day. As used in this section, use or occupancy for human habitation shall mean use or occupancy of a vehicle in lieu of a place of residence.

B. Violation of this section shall constitute an infraction.

(Ord. 1455 § 1, 1985; Ord. 1878 § 4, 2020)