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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1986 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AUPOMOBILE TRAILERS AND TRAILER CAMPS; REGULATING AND LICENSING THEIR USE IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH; PRO- VIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EMERGENCY: WHEREAS, public necessity and convenience and the general health and welfare requires that the use of automobile trailers and trailer camps in the City of Fort Worth be regulated, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. Definitions: (a) An "automobile trailer" shall be defined as any vehicle used as sleeping or living quarters, mounted on wheels and propelled either by its own power or by another power-driven vehicle to which it may be attached. (b) A "trailer camp" shall be any area owned or operated by any person, firm or corporation for the purpose of locating thereon any automobile trailer used as defined in paragraph (a) above. (c) A "unit" in this ordinance is hereby defined to be any section, plot or parcel of land located within a trailer camp allotted for the parking of an automobile trailer. SECTION 2. Restrictions applicable to automobile trailers: (a) No person, firm or corporation shall place, keep or maintain any automobile trailer used for human habitation upon any D t or parcel of ground within the City of Fort 'P9orth for a period exceeding one week in any one year, except in a licensed trailer camp or in a municipal park area designated by the Board of Park Commissioners as a trailer park. (b) Automobile trailers having their running gear, wheels or other equipment designed for the transportation of said vehicles from one location to another removed or blocked up or otherwise made stationary and in use for living quarters shall be classed as dwellings, and as such shall be subject to all of the provisions of ordinances of the City of Fort Worth pertaining to dwellings and living quarters. (c) No automobile trailer shall be used for living quarters upon any street, alley or other public way in the City of Fort 'North. (d) No person, firm or corporation shall make any electrical connection for any automobile trailer to any building or other source of electricity without the approval of.the Electrical Inspector as to the method of such connection. (e) No person, firm or corporation shall deposit garbaggeor waste water from any automobile trailer on the premises where the trailer is stationed or on adjoining premises, and the garbage shall be placed in a suitable and adequate metal container equipped with a fly tight and water tight cover for collection' by the Garbage Department. SECTION 3. Restrictions applicable to trailer camps: (a) All land used as a trailer camp shall be located on well drained sites of amply size, free from heavy or dense growth of brush or weeds. The land shall be free from marsh and shall be graded to insure rapid drainage during and following rains. (b) Every trailer camp shall have city water connections furnishing an ample and adequate supply of water and shall be con- nected with the sanitary sewer, and adequate provision shall be made for the collection and removal of waste and garbage. In addition, adequate laundry facilities shall be provided for the tenants. (c) Every trailer camp shall have a minimum of one toilet for each sex and every five units or fraction thereof and one shower or bathtub for each sex and each six units or fraction thereof. (d) All toilets and showers or tubs shall be placed in properly constructed buildings located not more than three hun- dred (300) feet from any unit. (a) In addition.to ,tbe above toilet and bath buildings, there shall be placed a properly constructed building convenient- ly located to all units which shall contain one slop sink e6r each ten units or fraction thereof where can toilets are to be cleaned. SECTION 4. License: No person, firm or corporation other than the City of Fort Worth shall maintain or operate any trailer camp within the City of Fort Worth without obtaining therefor a license. Said license shall be issued by the Department of Public Health and Welfare and upon pay- ment of a fee therefor of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00). Such per- mit shall not be granted until said applicant shall have establish- ed to the satisfaction of the Department of Public Health and Wel- fare that said trailer camp complies with all health and sanitary regulations. Said license shall run for a period of one year, the cost of any license obtained during the year to be the said propor- tion of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) as that proportion of the year remaining. SECTION 5. Penalty: Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be pun- ished by a fine of not less than Five Dollars ($5*00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars (6200.00) SECTION 6. This ordinance shall be in effect from and after its passage and publication as required by law. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: rney. r ORDINANCE No. ,� /�iGGG�-'�GL}q� mate- ,i d [Inv Q City Se tar AL i.