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TRAILER AND CAMPSITE ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE SANITATION, CONDUCT AND MAINTENANCE
OF CAMP GROUNDS AND AUTOMOBILE CAMP GROUNDS AND THE USE OF
TRAILER HOUSES OR AUTOMOBILE HOUSE CARS USED FUR. LIVING PURPOSES
IN THE CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS: PRuVLDING PENALTIES FOR
THE VIOLATION HEREOF; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE„IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS,
ARKANSAS:
SECTION I. For the purpose of this Ordinance, the following
terms shall b¢ deemed and construed to have the meanings r¢spect-
iv¢lY ascribed to them in this Section unless from the particular
context it clearly appears that some other meaning is intended:
PERSON - The word "person" shall mean and include both the
singular and plural and shall also mean and include person,
individual, firm, corporation, co-partnership, association
club, society, or any other organization.
QUALIFIED CAPv'iP GROUND - Shall mean and include a place
operated by a person who has obtained from the Inspection
Department of the City of West Memphis a permit to operate a
place where may be maintained, placed, parked, or located house
cars, or trailer houses.
HOUSE CAR UR TRAILER HOUSE - Shall mean and include any
house being used as living quarters for humans, vehicular in
design, which may be driven, towed or propelled from one
than a in structure or design,
another without g
location to
whether or not the same be supported by wheels.
SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the Inspection Department
of the City of West Memphis to enforce all of the provisions
of this Ordinance and for the purpose of securing enforcement
shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon
the premises of any camp ground, trailer house or house car,
now or hereafter, operated within the City of West Memphis for
the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to camp, place,
stand, park or locate any house car or trailer house. in the
City of 'Vest Memphis except within a qualified camp ground~~pro-
vided however, that the same may be parked outside of a
qualified camp ground for a period not exceed twenty-four (241
hours continuous time, and provided further, that any person
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desiring to camp, place, stand, park or locate any house car or
trailer house in the City of West Memphis outside of a qualified
camp ground for twenty-four t24i hours continuous time, shall
first apply for and obtain from the Police Department of the
City of West Memphis a permit to do so, which application shall !,
give the location at which such house car or trailer house is
to be located, the State vehicle license number, and a general
description of the house car or trailer house for which permis-
sion to locate is being applied.
Upon such information having been supplied to the Police
Department said Department shall grant a permit to locate such
house car or trailer house in the place indicated in such appli-
cation for a period not longer than twenty-four 1241 hours. It
shall be unlawful for any person to place, stand, park, or
locate any house car or trailer house at a location other than
that approved by the Potic¢ Department for that purpose.
SECTION 4. No person shall stand, park, place, or locate, or
permit to b¢ stood, parked, placed, or located upon any pro-
perty belonging to him, or under his control, any house car,
unless the person in control of said house car have a valid
unr¢voked and unexpired permit from the Police Department to
maintain such house car as provided in Section 3 hereof, or
unless such person permitting such standing, parking, .placing,
or locating shall have first obtained a permit to operate a.
qualified camp ground from the Inspection Department of the
City of West Memphis.
SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate,
maintain and offer f'or public use within the City of West
N~emphis a camp ground without first applying for, and r¢c¢iv-
ing from the City Inspector of the City of W¢st Memphis, a
permit to do as hereinafter provided.
SECTION 6. Every application for a permit to operate a quali-
fied camp ground in the City of West Memphis shall be in
writing, upon a form provided by the Inspection Department for
that purpose. It shall state the name and address of the
.a-pplicant and a description of the property whereon or wherein
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it is proposed to conduct such camp ground. Said application
shall also contain such other information as the City Inspector
may require and shall b¢ filed by the ap~ltcant not less than
thirty t301 days before said camp ground is to be made ready
for use, and shall be accompanied by an inspection fee of Five
Dollars ($5.00? for which the City Inspector shall issue a
receipt.
SECTION 7. Upon the filing of the application accompanied by
the inspection fee, it shall be the duty of the City Inspector
or any of his duly authorized representatives to investigate
the premises and determine whether said proposed camp ground or
the site selected therefor conforms with the requirements of
this Ordinance, the rules and regulations of the Inspection
Department, and the laws of the State; and no permit shall b¢
issued unless such camp ground or the site selected therefor
complies with such requirements and meets with approval of the
City Inspector. Said Inspector shall reject any application
that does not comply with all Ordinances of the City of West
Memphis and laws of the State. Provided however, that any
person aggrieved by the decision of the City Inspector mays
within ten (10i days thereafter apply to the City Council for
a hearing as to the matters in question. Where-upon a time for
hearing shall be set which shall be not later than ten f10i
days thereafter, at which time a full and complete hearing
shall be had before the City Council, and the City Council
shall confirm, modify or disapprove the action of the City
Inspector.
SECTION 8. Whenever inspection by the City Inspector of any
qualified camp ground indicates that unsanitary conditions
exist therein the City Inspector shall notify the person in
charge of said qualified campground in writing of such fact
and shall set forth in said notice a description of the condi-
tion which makes unsanitary the operation of said qualified
camp ground and shall further direct that said condition be
remedied by commencing to remedy the same within twenty-four
t241 hours of receipt of notice and to continue thereafter
dilligently and continously until said unsanitary condition
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has been abated.
If after said notice said condition is not remedied or if
it appears that any other violation of law exists, it shall be
the duty of the City Inspector and the City Inspector may, in
addition to other penalties provided by this Ordinance, suspend
or recommend the revocation of said permit as herein provided.
SECTION 9. Any permit issued hereunder shall be transferrable
upon a written application of the holder of the same to the
City Inspector, with its consent endorsed thereon.
SECTION 10. Any permit issued hereunder shall entitle the
permitted to obtain a license to carry on the business of a
qualified camp ground upon the payment of the license fee as
required.
SECTION II. (ai it shall b¢ unlawful for any person to main-
tain, conduct or carry on any qualified camp ground within the
City unless there shall b¢ at all times posted in a conspicuous
place therein the permit obtained from the inspection Department.
(bi It shall be unlawful for any person to camp, plac¢~
~ stand, park or locate any house car or trailer house outside of
~, a qualified camp ground in the City unless there shall be at
all times posted in a conspicuous place therein a permit
obtained from the Police Department as herein provided.
SECTION 12. lal It shall be unlawful for any person to
conduct, carry on or maintain any qualified camp ground within
the City which does not have ad¢qubte toilet facilities for
men separate and apart from adequate toilet facilities for
ower
add uate sh
t e toilets
women, equipped with water flush yp , q
facilities for men, separate and apart from adequate shower
facilities for women; adequate tight metal receptacles for
garbage and rubbish and an adequate and sufficient supply of
pure water for drinking purposes and an adequate supply of
pure water for domestic purposes which said water shall be
obtained from faucets only, conveniently located in said camp
ground and no dipping vessels or common cups shall b¢ permitted.
Ibi No permit shall be issued hereunder to carry on a
qualified camp ground unless applicant complies with all of
the sanitation, electrical, sewer, health, plumbing, fire, and
building codes and Ordinances of the City relating to the same.
Icl Every toilet, shower, slop sink and every other
container used for the purpose of discharging or drainage of
waste water shall b¢ connected with the City sewer system, in
a manner as directed by the Plumbing Inspector. The sewer
service line from trailer camp to sewer main shall not be less
than 6" in diameter.
tdl It shall be unlawful f'or any person to operate and
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maintain a house car in the City which does not have reasonable
immediate accessibility and use of adequate toilet facilities,
adequate receptacles for garbage and rubbish, and an adequate
supply of pure water for drinking and domestic purposes.
iel Where water supply for the trailer is connected to
city water supply, a back flow preventer or suitable air-gap
shall be provided.
Ifl It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit any
garbage or other improper substance or any drainage or wash
water upon the premises of any camp ground, except in the
proper receptacles provided therefor.
igl There shall be provided in every camp ground one ill
or more slop sinks equipped with a grease trap properly connect-
ed with a sewer, the same to be conveniently located at no
greater distance from any house car than two hundred (2001
feet.
ihl Said camp ground operator shall provide immediate
sewer drainage connections for each individual trailer house
or house car, and it shall be unlawful for any person to
.permit the flow from said trailer house or house car of any
waste water except in or through the receptacles or sewer
connections as above provided.
SECTION 13. Every camp ground hereinafter established in the
City shall be laid out with, and all existing camp grounds
shall provide available unoccupied space of not less than
four hundred (4001 square feet together with three t31 FOOT
SIDE Y~-RD FOR EACH HOUSE CAR, TRAIEER house, or automobile,
and shall b¢ arranged in rows abutting or facing on a drive-
way or clear unoccupied space of not less than sixteen (16l
feet in width which space shall have unobstructed access to
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the public street or alley and it shall b¢ unlawful for any
person to maintain, conduct or permit the maintenance or
conducting of any house car or trailer house which shall be
less than eight (81 feet apart from any other such house car
or trailer house.
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SECTION 14. (ai It shall be unlawful for any person owning,
or operating a house car in the City to remove or cause to be
removed the wheels or any similar transporting device from said
house car, or to otherwise permanently fix it to the ground in
a manner that would prevent the ready removal of said house
car, without first having obtained a permit to do so from the
City Inspector.
tbi The continued use of any house car or trailer house
within any qualified camp ground as herein defined for a period
of time of more than ninety (901 days shall be construed as
removing said house car or trailer house from the requirements
of this Ordinance and coverting it into a dwelling, and it
shall thereupon be subject to the requirements of the City of
West Memphis Building Code and the Arkansas State Plumbing Code.
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tci Any alteration to any house car as above set forth
shall be so construed as removing it from the requirements of
this Ordinance and converting it into a dwelling and it shall
thereupon be subject to the requirements of the Building Code.
All house cars or trailers shall be inspected by the City
Plumbing Inspector.
SECTION 15. (al Every camp ground shall be provided with
sufficient means of lighting the same at night, and all road-
ways, water closets and bath units shall be provided with
sufficlent lighting facilities and shall be kept lighted
during the time from one-half hour after sunset until one-
half hour before sunrise.
Every applicant shall submit a plan of intended construc-
tion to the Electrical Department of the City, which shall
set out the place, type and number of electrical fixtures, the
construction of which shall be approved by said Electrical
Department.
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(b1 All land used as a qualified camp ground shall be
located on well-drained sites of ample size, free from h¢avy
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 rain, and it shall be unlawful to permit water
to accumulate or stand upon the ground of any qualified camp
ground.
SECTION 16. No dog or other animal shall be permitted to run
at larg¢ in any qualified camp ground.
SECTION 17. Every qualified camp ground shall maintain a
manager in charge thereof, Such manager shall r¢quire all
p¢rsons using such qualified camp grounds to register in a
book kept for that purpose, which registration shall show the
date, the name and address of said person, together with make
of automobile and the correct automobile license number. Every
such manager shall preserve such register and endorse upon
th¢ same the dat¢ of departure of the person r¢gister¢d therein,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to make any false entry
or erase or alter or suffer or permit to be ¢rased or altered
any nam¢, address, registration number or other information
therein and said register shall at all times be open to
insp¢ction of the Police Department.
SECTION 18. Any person violating any of the provisions of
this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in
the City jail for a period not exceeding six (61 months, or
by a fine not to exceed Five Hundr¢d Dollars ($500.001, or
by both such fine and imprisonment; and each such person as
principal, agent, or otherwise, shall be deemed guilty of a
separate offense for each day during any portion of which
the violating of, or failure, neglect or refusal to comply
with any of the provisions of this Ordinance is committed,
continued or permitted by such person.
SECTION 19. All Urdinanc¢s or parts of Ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed and this Urdinanc¢ shall be in
full force and effect from and af~ its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS DAY OF ~ 1954.
ATTES :~ Mayor
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