Chapter 70

TRAILERS AND TRAILER PARKS*

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*             Cross References: Buildings and building regulations, ch. 14; placement of manufactured, modular and mobile homes, § 14-44; environment, ch. 26; health and sanitation, ch. 34; zoning, § 50-31 et seq.; manufactured homes, § 50-115; subdivisions, § 50-241 et seq.; solid waste, ch. 54; streets, sidewalks and other public places, ch. 58; utilities, ch. 74.

                State Law References: Regulation of location of manufactured homes, Code of Virginia, § 15.2-2247; campgrounds, Code of Virginia, § 35.1-1 et seq.; Virginia Industrialized Building Safety Law, Code of Virginia, § 36-70 et seq.; Virginia Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Law, Code of Virginia, § 36-85.2 et seq.; Manufactured Housing Licensing and Transaction Recovery Fund Law, Code of Virginia, § 36-85.16 et seq.; Mobile Home Lot Rental Act, Code of Virginia, § 55-248.41 et seq.

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Sec. 70-1. Definitions.

Sec. 70-2. Penalties.

Sec. 70-3. Water and sewer permits prerequisite to placement.

Sec. 70-4. Lot number signs.

Sec. 70-5. Moving trailers before payment of taxes.

Sec. 70-1. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Trailer means any vehicle designed or used or maintained for use as a conveyance upon highways, or designed and so constructed as to permit occupancy thereof as a temporary dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons.

Trailer camp and trailer park mean any site, lot, field or tract of land upon which is located one or more trailers or is held out for the location of any trailer, including any building, structure, tent, vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the equipment for such park.

Trailer lot means a unit of land used or intended to be used by one trailer, in a permanent or semipermanent location, whether in a trailer park or camp or not, provided that the term "trailer lot" shall not mean a unit of land used or intended to be used by one trailer on a transient basis not to exceed a period of two weeks. A unit of land shall be as defined in the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.

(Code 1992, § 21-1)

                Cross References: Definitions generally, § 1-2.

Sec. 70-2. Penalties.

Any person violating this chapter shall be guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.

(Code 1992, § 21-2)

Sec. 70-3. Water and sewer permits prerequisite to placement.

No trailer intended for use as a full-time place of residence or office shall be delivered to or located upon the lot or parcel of real estate where the trailer will be used as a place of residence or office until the necessary permits for connection to water and sewer outlets have been secured or, if there are no existing water and sewer outlets, until permits for a well and septic system have been acquired from the county health department.

(Code 1992, § 21-3)

                State Law References: Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 58.1-3520.

Sec. 70-4. Lot number signs.

There shall be posted and maintained in a conspicuous place on each trailer lot or upon the trailer located upon each trailer lot in a trailer park or trailer camp a number so that each trailer lot may be easily identified.

(Code 1992, § 21-4)

Sec. 70-5. Moving trailers before payment of taxes.

No trailer which has been in use as a place of residence or office in the town shall be moved from the town until the owner thereof has paid all property taxes assessed or assessable against such trailer.

(Code 1992, § 21-5)

                State Law References: Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 58.1-3520.