Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-141

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION, USE AND OPERATION OF TRAILER PARKS, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 260, ALSO KNOWN AS. CHAPTER 35, CODE OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, 1949, AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE: The purpose of this ordinance is to provide certain minimum standards, provisions, requirements and arrangements for sanitation, safety and use of materials for all Auto Trailer Parks and Auto Trailers on private property. SECTION 2. 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 other genders. (a) AUTO TRAILER includes the words "House Car" or "Camp Car" and shall be defined as any building or structure designed and/or used for living or sleeping purposes and equipped with wheels to facilitate movements from place to place and automobiles used for living or sleeping purposes. AUTO TRAILER AUTOMOBILES shall have the following requirements: 1. A State license for motor vehicles and attached state license plates, issued to the owner within the last current year. 2. Wheels shall be maintained permanently in place on the Auto Trailer axles for its immediate movement. (b) AUTO TRAILER PARK includes the words "Auto Trailer Camp" and shall be defined as any lot or parcel of land used or intended to be used for the accommodation of two or more Auto Trailers. (c) AUTO TRAILER UNIT includes the words "Auto Trailer Site" and shall be defined as a plot of land in an Auto Trailer Park used or intended to be used for the accommodation of not more than one (l) Trailer and not more than two (2) motor vehicles which are not Auto Trailers. (d) BUILDING shall be defined as any structure built for the support, shelter, or enclosure of per­sons, animals, chattels, or property of ary kind. (e) BUILDING DEPARTMENT shall be defined as the officer, department or agency of the City of Las Vegas who is charged with the enforcement of the provisions pertaining to the erection, construction, recon­struction, alteration, conversion, movement, arrangement or use of building or structure and the use of property within the City of Las Vegas. (f) BUILDING INSPECTOR shall be defined as the Chief Building Inspector or ary regularly authorized deputy. (g) ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR shall be defined as the Chief Electrical Inspector or ary regularly author­ized deputy. (h) PLUMBING INSPECTOR shall be defined as the Chief Plumbing Inspector or ary regularly authorized deputy. (i) PARK SEWER shall be defined as a sewer constructed in ary Auto Trailer Park for the service of Auto Trailers and connected to the City sewer or in case there is no City sewer, in any street on which such Auto Trailer Park abuts, to a septic tank as required by the Plumbing Ordinance of the City of Las Vegas. (j) HEALTH DEPARTMENT shall be defined as such department created or established by authority of the County of Clark and the City of Las Vegas and entrusted with the regulation control or supervision of all matters pertaining to the general health or the citizens of the County of Clark and City of Las Vegas. (k) LICENSE BUREAU shall be defined as such department created or established by authority of the City and entrusted with the issuance of licenses and the collection of license fees. (l) PERSONS shall be defined as ary natural person, firm, association, or corporation. SECTION 3: AUTO TRAILERS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY: It shall be unlawful for any person to place, keep or maintain any auto trailer on any land within the City of Las Vegas without the express permission of the owner of such land, and no person shall allow, suffer, or permit any auto trailer to be placed, kept, or maintained on any land owned or controlled by him except in an AUTO TRAILER PARK for which a permit to construct and establish has been issued ty the Building Inspector and a license to oper­ate has been issued by the License Bureau. It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant or other person having charge or control of any lot or tract of land in the city, other than a trailer park as herein defined, to permit any person to occupy for living or sleeping quarters or business purposes any trailer parked thereon; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any owner of a lot or tract of land from parking his own trailer for not more than one year thereon and living therein while constructing a house, if proper sanitary facilities are provided as required ty law. SECTION 4. STORAGE OF AUTO TRAILER BY OWNER: Nothing in this ordinance shall be deemed to prohibit the storage of any auto trailer on the home premises of its owner for any length of time when not used for living or sleeping purposes; PROVIDED, that the owner of the Trailer will call at the of­fice of the County Health Department and sign a form to that effect. SECTION 5. OTHER PERMITS REQUIRED: Permits issued under the terms of this ordinance convey no right to erect any building, other than the accessory buildings designated on the plot plan for the Auto Trailer Park, or to do any electrical work or to do any plumbing work. Regular building, electrical, plumbing or other permits, as required by the provisions of the ordinance of the City shall be se­cured for all such work. Where no work is done under a permit within sixty (60) days after its is­suance, it shall become null and void. ORDINANCE NO. 507