Vallejo Municipal Code Ch. 7.96 Mobile Living Units

As used in this chapter:

A. "Mobile living unit" means a camp car, commercial coach, mobile home, recreational vehicle or travel trailer as each of these terms is defined in Chapter 1 Sections 18000-18013), Part 2 (Mobile Homes) and in Chapter 1 (Sections 18200-18220), Part 2.1 (Mobile Home Parks Act), Division 13 of the Health and Safety Code of the state, and a camp trailer, house car or trailer coach, as each of these terms is defined in Division 1 (Sections 100-675) of the Vehicle Code of the state, 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.

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

(Ord. 218 N.C. (2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)

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 below and in Sections 7.96.040 and 7.96.050:

A. Within a lawfully established and licensed mobile home park, recreational trailer park, travel trailer park, labor camp subject to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 2610) Part 9, Division 2 of the Labor Code of the state of California, 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 said 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 the Vallejo electrical 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.

C. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any occupancy of a mobile living unit or mobile home which is permitted pursuant to the zoning ordinance (Vallejo Municipal Code, Title 16) of the city, or pursuant to permits granted thereunder, shall be permitted.

(Ord. 321 N.C. (2d) § 1, 1976: Ord. 218 N.C. (2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)

Subject to the exceptions set forth in Sections 7.96.020, 7.96.040, and 7.96.050, 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, or gratuitously or otherwise, to permit the same to be occupied or used by any mobile living unit for living or sleeping purposes; provided, however, that the prohibition contained in this section shall not apply to any use of land permitted by the zoning ordinance (Vallejo Municipal Code, Title 16) or by any permit granted thereunder.

(Ord. 321 N.C. (2d) § 2, 1976: Ord. 218 N.C. (2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to prevent the temporary occupancy, for sleeping purposes, of a mobile living unit for a single period of not more than fourteen hours from the evening of one day to the morning of the next day, if lawfully parked on a public street, when the following conditions are met:

A. Said vehicle must conform to all applicable sections of the Vehicle Code of the state of California;

B. Said vehicle must have completely self-contained utilities, meeting all applicable codes and laws of the state of California governing such mobile living units, as defined in Section 7.96.010 of this chapter, or meeting such requirements in the jurisdiction of registration, if the vehicle is registered outside the state of California;

C. The self-contained utilities described in subsection B above must include toilet facilities;

D. Said vehicle, or the occupants thereof, may not discharge or discard any litter, effluent, sewage or other matter into any public street or way or upon any private property while parked as provided in this section;

E. No mobile living unit may be parked under the provisions of this section in any residential zoned district; and

F. No mobile living unit may be parked under the provisions of this section anywhere in the city for two or more consecutive nights.

(Ord. 218 N.C. (2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)

Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the owner or operator of any mobile living unit from parking or storing his mobile living unit upon premises owned, leased or otherwise lawfully occupied or used by him, 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 16, Zoning, or any other applicable ordinance or regulation of the city.

(Ord. 218 N.C. (2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)

It shall the duty of any police officer, the building official, the health officer arid any other employee of the city design by the city manager by writing filed with the city clerk to enforce the provisions of this chapter. The building official, the health officer or any regularly appointed employee of the building department or health department, and any other employee of the city so designated by the city manager, are empowered to make arrests and issue citations pursuant to Sections 836.5 and 853.6 of the Penal Code of the state for violations of this chapter.

(Ord. 218 N.C. (2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)