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ORDINANCE 386
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, CALIFORNIA,
REGULATING THE LOCATION, ERECTION,
SANITATION$ MAINTENANCE AND CONDUCT
OF CAMP CARS AND/OR AUTO TRAILER
CAITS IN SAID CITY OF AZUSA AND
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
THEREOF,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this Ordinance certain terms
used herein are defined as follows:
All words used in the present tense shall
include the future; all words in the plural number shall include
the singular number, and all words in the singular shall include
the plural number, unless otherwise clearly indicated in the
context. Any gender shall include the other genders.
"Person" means a natural person, firm, society,
company, association or corporation.
"Camp Cars and/or Auto Trailer" includes any
building or structure used for living or sleeping purposes and
equipped with wheels or other means to facilitate movement from
place to place, and any vehicle including an automobile when
used for living or sleeping purposes.
"Auto Trailer Camp" includes any lot or parcel
of land used or intended to be used for.the accommodation of
one or more camp cars or auto trailers, or any vehicle including
an automobile when used for living or sleeping purposes.
"Trailer Unit" includes a plot of land in an auto
trailer camp used or intended to be used for the accommodation
of not more than one (1) camp car or auto trailer and not more
than one (1) automobile which is not an auto trailer.
"Camp Sewer" shall include a sewer constructed in
any auto trailer camp for the service of camp cars or auto
trailers and connected to the City sewer, or in case there is no
city sewer in any street or alley on which such auto trailer
camp abuts, to a septic tank or cesspool as required by the
Ordinances of the City of Azusa or other law.
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SECTION 2: TRAILERS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY
It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
keep or maintain any camp car or auto trailer on any land within
the City of Azusa, without the express permission of the owner of
such land, and no person shall allow, suffer or permit any camp
car or auto trailer to be placed, kept or maintained on any land
owned or controlled by him except in an auto trailer camp for
which a permit has been issued by the city and which permit is
still in force; provided, that the occupant of any single. -family
residence or an owner who is erecting a single family residence
for occupancy by himself and family exclusively, may allow not
more than one camp car or auto trailer for occupancy by himself
or by a non—paying guest or by an employee, to be placed, kept
or maintained on the residence property for a period not exceed,
Ing sixty days in any period of twelve months, by obtaining a
permit as provided in Section 3 (c) hereof and otherwise complying
with the provisions of this Ordinance relating thereto.
SECTION 3: ZONING REQUIREY17MTS A14D PERMITS
(a) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed
or held to authorize or permit the operation, maintenance or use
of any camp car or auto trailer, or auto trailer camp or trailer
unit, in any location not authorized by the Zoning Ordinances
and Resolutions of the City of Azusa.
(b) Permits issued for auto trailer camps shall
be issued by the Chief of Police or other designated officer of
the City of Azusa and shall expire on June 30 of each year. Such
permits may be renewed as provided in this ordinance. If the
auto trailer camp is to be maintained for a period beyond June
30th of each year, a renewal of the permit therefor shall be
obtained from said officer. Such renewals shall be for a period
not exceeding one year, and shall be applied for not later than
June 15th of each year.
(c) Any person desiring a permit to place or
maintain a single auto trailer as provided for in Section 2
hereof, shall file with the Chief of Police or other designated
officer an application therefore, within 48 hours after said
auto trailer is placed upon the ground of said single family
dwelling. Said application shall describe the property where said
auto trailer is to be located, either by street and number or by
legal description. It shall give the date when said auto trailer
was placed on the property, the date of expiration of the permit,
and contain an agreement by the applicant that any toilet in said
auto trailer will be sealed so that it cannot be used during the
period of its stay on said property, and that all waste from sinks
in said auto trailers will be disposed of through properly
trapped and vented drains into a sewer, or in a cesspool, if there
is no sewer, but not upon the ground, in any event, and that no
connection shall be made to any electrical service until an
electrical, permit has been obtained from the City, a special
trailer circuit installed, and said connection authorized by the
electrical inspector. Permits under this subdivision shall
commence from the date of the placing of the trailer upon the
property or the date of the permit, whichever is earlier, and
shall expire sixty (60) days from such date. No other such permit
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ten months following such expiration date.
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The City Council is hereby authorized in the
3 exercise of a reasonable discretion to revoke any permit issued
pursuant to this section, if after due investigation it
4 determines that the holder thereof has violated any of the
provisions of this ordinance, or that said auto trailer is being
5 maintained in an unsanitary or unsafe manner, or that the manner
In which it is being maintained constitutes a nuisance. Such
6 revocation shall be made in accordance with the provisions of
subdivision "g" of this section.
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(d) Any person desiring a permit for auto trailer
8 camp shall'file an application therefor with the Chief of
Police or other designated officer of this City. Said appli-
9 cation shall give the location by street number and legal
description of the property on which such auto trailer camp is
10 to be established and maintained, the dimensions of said property,
and the number of units in said camp. A plot plan..in duplicate,
11 of said property shall be filed by applicant with his application
drawn to a scale of not less than one-eighth (1/8) of an inch per
12 foot, showing the location and dimensions of all the units, roads,
buildings, sewer connections, water connections, electric outlets,
13 baths, toilets and incinerators, and all other requirements of
this ordinance.
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(e) Where no work is done under a permit within
15 ninety (90) days of its issuance it shall become null and void.
16 (f) Permits issued under the terms of this
ordinance convey no right to erect any building or to do any
17 plumbing work or to do any electrical work. Regular building,
plumbing, electrical or other permits, as required by the,
18 provisions of the ordinances of this City, shall be.secured for al
such work.
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(g) Permits may be revoked by the City Council for
20 violation of the provisions of this ordinance, or if said camp
car or auto trailer and/or auto trailer camp is/are maintained
21 in an unsanitary or unsafe manner or in a manner such as to
create a nuisance.
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Ido such permit shall be revoked until a hearing
23 upon notice by said Council is first had. Written notice of
the time and place of hearing shall be given at least five (5)
24 days before said hearing. Such notice may be given either by
personal delivery thereof to the person to be notified, or by
25 deposit in the United States mail in a sealed envelope, postage
prepaid, addressed to such person to be notified at address
26 which appears on the record pertaining to the matter to which
the notice is directed.
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Such notice shall state in clear and concise
28 language the reasons for revocation of said permit and the time
29 when and the place where said hearing is to be held.
The City Council may continue said hearings from
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SECTION 4: FEES
(a) Every person engaged in the business of
conducting, carrying on, or opperating auto trailer camp shall
pay an annual license fee of $b24.00, plus the additions hereinafte
set forth, if applicable. Said fee of $$24.00 shall be payment
for trailer units up to and including ten (10), and such person
shall pay an.additional fee of $p2.00 per unit -for each and every
unit established in such camp in excess of the above ten (10).
Such fee shall be paid to the Chief of Police or other designated
officer upon the filing of such application. Each application
for renewal of such permit shall be accompanied by the requisite
license fee, and shall be paid to the Chief of Police or other
designated officer, provided, however, that if such application
is filed between October 1 and December 31, both inclusive, such
fee shall be reduced by 25%. If such application is filed between
January 1 and March 31 both inclusive, such application shall be
reduced by 50% of the aforesaid fee. If such application shall
be filed between April 1 and June 30 of each year, both inclusive,
such application shall be accompanied by 25% of said fee.
(b) The license fee for a permit under Section 3
(c) of this Ordinance, for a single auto trailer shall be One
($$1.00) Dollar. Each application for such a permit shall be
accompanied by said fee.
(c) The license collector shall cause an accurate
account to be kept of all fees collected under the terms of this
ordinance, which account shall show the date of collection, by
whom paid, the address for which such payment is made and the
amount of each such fee. He shall cause all fees collected
hereunder to be transferred to the City Treasurer of the City of
Azusa.
(d) Where no work has been done or is to be done
under an unexpired permit issued pursuant to the terms of this .
Ordinance, the City Council may refund not more than seventy—five
(75) per cent of the fee paid therefore pursuant to written
application, which shall be signed by the permit holder and filed
with said Chief of Police or other designated officer. Such
application must be made to the City Council within thirty (30)
days from the date of expiration of such permit.
SECTION 5: SUPERVISION
(a) The owner or operator of every auto trailer
camp, before allowing any camp cars or auto trailers therein,
shall file with the Chief of Police or other designated officer,
the name of the person who will be in continuous responsible
charge of said camp, and who is authorized to act for him. Any
change In such person in charge shall be immediately reported to
the above mentioned officer.
(b) In every auto trailer camp there shall be an
office building in which shall be located the office of the person
in charge of said camp. The camp register shall at all times be
kept in said office.
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(c) It shall be the duty of the owner, operator
or persons in charge of any auto trailer camp, (1) to keep at all
times a register of all persons staying in his camp, which
register shall at all times be open to all officers of the City
of Azusa. Said register shall record the names and home addresses
of all persons staying in said auto trailer camp, the date of
their arrival, date of their departure, the number of and state
in which the driver's license of such persons was issued, the
license number of all motor Rehicl-es in said camp, the name of
the state or country in which they are registered, the trailer
unit on which each is located and the place at which the last
overnight stop vas made; (2) to maintain said camp in a clean,
orderly and sanitary condition at all times; (3) to allow no
more than one auto trailer and one motor vehicle on any one
trailer unit at any one time; (4) to require that all such auto
trailers and motor vehicles are located on .their respective
trailer units; (5) to require that toilets in every auto trailer
be sealed so that they cannot be used during the total time they
shall remain in said camp; (6) to require every sink and every
lavatory in any auto trailer in said camp to be connected to the
camp sewer during its entire stay in said camp; (7) to see that all
required lights are kept lighted as provided for in this ordinance;
(8) to see that all garbage is handled as required by Section 7
of this ordinance; (9) to not permit any animals or fowls to be
harbored or kept in the camp except dogs and cats, and not to
permit dogs and cats unless same are kept on a leash or are
confined in an adequate enclosure; (10) to report promptly to the
proper authorities any violations of law which may come to his
attention; (11) to see that no person overstays his legal limit
of residence in said camp, and (12) to post in a waterproof
holder in a conspicuous place in each trailer unit a copy of this
subsection of this ordinance.
SECTION 6: LAYOUT
have
a public street by)means rof atprivateeroadmnothall less thanaccess to
eighteen (18) feet wide. Such roadway from the street line in and
every road required by the terms of this ordinance within any
auto trailer camp shall be paved with not less than one and one-
half (12) inch of oil macadam, or equal.
(b) Roadways not less than eighteen (18) feet
wide shall be provided in every auto trailer camp, so located
that each and every trailer unit shall have direct access thereto.
(c) The entire area of every auto trailer camp,
exclusive of roadways, shall be well maintained with lawns and
planted areas, or thoroughly -graveled or paved.
(d) Every auto trailer camp shall be surrounded
on all sides, except at the entrance and exits, with a metal
fence and metal posts not less than six (6) feet high constructed
and maintained so as effectively to prevent the passage of persons.
There shall be no opening or gate in such fence opening into
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adjoining land except with the written approval of the owner of the
adjoining land, which approval shall be filed with the Chief of
Police or other designated officer.
(e) Each trailer unit in every auto trailer camp
shall contain not less than six -hundred thirty (630) square
feet of ground and shall be not less than twenty-one (21) feet in
minimum width measured at right angles to the side lines thereof.
The boundary lines of every trailer unit shall be plainly and
permanently marked.
(f) Setbacks shall be maintained as established
by any existing zoning ordinance or any such or other ordinance
which may hereinafter be adopted by the City of Azusa.
(g) There shall not be less than five (5) feet
between any part of any camp car or auto trailer and any boundary
line of the trailer unit on which same is located, unless a
different distance be established by other ordinance of the City
of Azusa.
(h) No motor vehicle parked on any trailer unit
shall extend beyond the boundaries of said unit.
sECTION 7; ' SANITATION
(a) There shall be a connection to a camp sewer
available to each and every trailer unit, arranged so that the
sanitary fixtures in any camp car or auto trailer may be readily
connected thereto. Immediately after being placed on a trailer
unit, every camp car or auto trailer shall have all its
sanitation fixtures connected to said sewer or sealed so that they
cannot be used. Hose connections not exceeding—ten (10) feet in
length are permissable.,
(b) On each trailer unit there shall be an ample
supply of water from the City water service for the use of the
occupants thereof. There shall be one or more outlets on such
service, which shall be adapted for hose connection.
(c) In every auto trailer camp there shall be
provided not less than one public toilet for each sex for every
five.(5) trailer units or fraction thereof, with a minimum of two.
In tunits. All toiletsll be one and urinalsrinal hall berhoused invrooms
trailer
which shall have hard smooth finished cement floors and shall have
walls plastered with Portland cement plaster with a polished steel
trowel finish all corners rounded with a fillet of not less than
one-half (1/2) inch radius, or walls and floors may be finished
In non-absorbent tile in lieu of the cement finish specified
above.
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(d) In every auto trailer camp there shall be
provided one (1) bath tub or stall shower for each sex for every
f•iveet5) trailer units or fraction thereof. All such baths shall
be provided at all times with an ample supply of hot and cold
water. Bath rooms shall be constructed as specified for toilet
rooms in subsection (c) of this section.
(e) In every auto trailer camp there shall be
provided not less than one (1) double compartment laundry tray and
one (1) lavatory for every five (5) trailer units, and all such
fixtures shall be at all times provided with an ample supply of
hot and cold water. All such fixtures shall be installed in rooms
constructed as specified for toilet rooms in subsection (c) of
this section. All bath rooms shall be supplied with adequate
heating equipment maintained in proper operating condition.
(f) In every auto trailer camp there shall be
provided not less than one (1) slop sink for every five (5)
trailer units, and such fixtures shall -be supplied with an
adequate supply of hot and cold water.
(g) No trailer unit shall be more than three
hundred (300) feet from any of the sanitation fixtures required by
this section to 'serve said trailer unit.
(h) Under and around every laundry tray, lavatory
and slop sink there shall be a concrete or tile floor and such
floor shall extend three (3) feet in all directions beyond such
fixture.
(i) Every trailer unit shall be provided with a
substantial,covered garbage can. Such garbage can shall be kept
on a concrete pavement not less than two feet square and four (4)
inches thick, with smooth troweled top. In every auto trailer
camp all such garbage cans shall be collected at one convenient
place prior to garbage collection time on each day on which
garbage is collected in that district. Immediately after the
garbage has been collected, all such cans shall be carefully
cleaned and returned to their respective trailer units.
(j) Every auto
with a masonry incinerator, of 6
combustible wastes of said camp,
Chief of the Fire Department.
trailer camp shall be provided
size suitable to handle the
and located as directed by the
(k) In every auto trailer camp where automobiles
Dr trailers are washed or are to be washed, there shall be in-
stalled a wash rack and no such washing shall be done except on
such wash rack. Ali such racks shall be paved with a continuous
,loncrete floor sl&b not less than fifteen (15) feet by twenty-five
(25) feet by four (4) inches thick, and all parts thereof shall
slope toward a drain so connected as to dispose of all waste water
Rithout nuisance or creation of an unsanitary condition.
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SECTION 8: LIGHTING
(a) Every required roadway in auto trailer camp
shall be lighted from -one-half (1/2) hour after sunset of every day
to one half (1/2) hour before sunrise of the succeeding day. The
lighting equipment shall be such that there will be not less than
one-half (1/2) watt for each and every square foot of roadway
surface. Individual lamps for such lighting shall be so located
that the maximum distance between them does not exceed one hundred
(100) feet.
(b) Every public toilet and every public urinal
room in an auto trailer camp shall be lighted from one-half (1/2)
hour after sunset of each day until one-half (1/2) hour before
sunrise of the succeeding day. Such lighting shall be provided in
an amount not less than one-half (1/2) watt per square foot of
floor area in any such room. Every public bath, laundry tray, sink
and slop sink shall be supplied with lights which may be turned on
by the person using same.
SECTION 9: ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS
(a) Every trailer unit shall be provided with an
electrical convenience outlet within three (3) feet of a trailer
unit.
iler camp
shall comply in all respects ewith ao
therequirementsrk in every aofotheaOrdinances
and Codes of the City of Azusa and with the other applicable laws
and with the various rules and regulations of the Industrial
Accident Commission of the State of California.
SECTION 10: COMPLIANCE WITH PLUMBING ORDINANCE
In every auto trailer camp all plumbing work shall
comply with the requirements of the Ordinances and Codes of the
City of Azusa, and with all other applicable laws.
SECTION 11: BUILDING, COMPLIANCE WITH LAW
s and
structures shall complyywithotheailer BuildingpCode andallldiOrdinances of
.he City of Azusa and with all other applicable laws, as well as
pith the State Housing Act of the State of California, where swid
requirements are applicable.
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SECTION 12:
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FIRE PROTECTION
(a) Every auto trailer camp shall be provided
with one (1) or more standpipes not less than one and one-half
(12) inches in diameter, and such standpipes shall be provided
with one and one-half (la) inch fire hose of such lengths that
every part of auto trailer camp may be reached therewith. Each
such hose shall be equipped with a standard nozzle. All such
hose shall be kept on a reel or rack, protected from the weather,
and shall.be used for no purpose other than fire protection.
SECTION 13: REINSPECTIONS
Before issuing a renewal of any permit as provided
in this Ordinance, the Department of Building shall make a re-
inspection of the buildings, structures, electrical equipment and
plumbing of any auto trailer camp, and no such renewal shall be
issued unless and until any defects or violations of law found
therein shall have been corrected.
SECTION 14: . LIMIT OF STAY
It shall be unlawful for any person, except the
owner and his duly.authorized representative, to live more than
six (6) months in any period of twelve (12) months in any auto
trailer camp, or for any person in charge of an auto trailer
camp to allow any person so to do or to allow any camp car or
auto trailer to remain in such auto trailer camp for more than
six.(6) months in any period of twelve (12) months.
SECTION 15: HEALTH REGULATION
It shall be the duty of the person maintaining,
operating, conducting or carrying on any auto trailer camp or
trailer unit space to report immediately to the Health Officer of
the District any person residing therein having of being
reasonably suspected of having any infections or contagious
disease. Immediately upon such notice, the Health Officer shall
investigate such report and take such action as is required under
the health regulations governing such condition.
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SECTION 16: STORAGE OF TRAILER BY OWNER
Nothing in this ordinance shall be deemed to pro-
hibit the storage of any camp car or auto trailer on the home
premises of its owner for any length of time when not used for
living or sleeping purposes.
SECTION 17:
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any
provision or to fail to comply with any requirement of this
ordinance. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance, or failing'to comply with any of its mandatory
provisions, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Three Hundred
($300.00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail of Los
Angeles County or in the City Jail of the City of Azusa, for a
period of not to exceed three (3) months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment. Each such person shall be guilty of a separate
offense for each and every day during any portion on which a
violation of any provision of this ordinance is committed, contin-
ued or permitted by such person.In addition to the penalties
hereinabove provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist
in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
deemed a public nuisance, and may be summarily abated as such.
SECTION 18:
If any section, subsection, sentence-, clause, phrase
or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held invalid or
unconstitutional by any court or competent jurisdiction, such
holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
thereof. The City Council of the City of Azusa hereby declares
that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, sub-
section, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsection
sentences, clauses, phrases or portions thereof be declared invali
or unconstitutional.
SECTION 19:
The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City
Clerk shall attest and certify to the passage, adoption and
publication thereof and shall cause the same to be published
once within 15 days after its passage in the Azusa Herald and
Pomotropic, a weekly newspaper of general circulation published
and circulated in the City of Azusa, which newspaper is hereby
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designated for that purpose, and. thereupon and thereafter thirty
(30) days after its passage this ordinance shall go into effect
and be in force.
ATTEST:
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MAE A. HYNES, Alyty Clerk of the
CitY of Azusa
Passed, adopted and approved
this October 7, 1946.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS
CITY OF AZUSA )
I, MAE A. HYNES, City Clerk of the City of Azusa,
Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the fore-
going Ordinance was duly.introduced at an adjourned regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles
County, California, duly and regularly held.on September 23,
19+6 in the regular council chambers of said City Council in said
city, at which adjourned regular meeting the title of said
Ordinance was read in full and the further reading of said
Ordinance was waived by motion of the City Council regularly made
and adopted by unanimous vote; that said Ordinance was fully,
completely and entirely read, and duly and regularly passed and
adopted by said City Council, signed and approved by the Mayor
and attested by the City Clerk of said City, at a regular
meeting of said City Council so held in the regular council
chambers of said City Council at the text regular meeting of
said City Council on October 7, 1946, and that same was passed
and adopted by the following vote of council:
AYES: Councilmen Nasser, Jumper, Memmesheimer,
Malone and Lamm.
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
I do further certify that I caused said Ordinance
to be published prior to the expiration of 15 days from the
passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic on October 17,
1946, a newspaper of general circulation printed, published
and circulated in said city of Azusa, and that the same was
published in accordance with law.
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