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Ordinance 1970-02 ORDINANCE NO. 7 () - J.-- AN ORDINANCE REGULATING MOBILE HOME PARKS; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND ESTABLISHING LICENSE FEE3; ESTABLISHING PHYSICAL REQUIRE- MENTS; REGULATING THE LOCATION OF SAID PARKS; ESTABLISHING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF SAID PARKS; ESTABLISH- ING REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER, SEWER, AND ELECTRICAL FACILITIES; PRESCRIBING PENAL~IES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE CAPTION OF THIS ORDINANCE AND THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WYLIE/ TEXAS; SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS For the purpose or this ordinance, certain terms, words and phrases shall have the meanings hereinarter described thereto. 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 A~ent: Any person authorized by the licensee or a mobile home or trailer park to operate or maintain such park under the provisions of this Ordinance. Public Works Director: The legally designated authority or the Public Works Department or the City or his authorized representa- tive. Drive-Way: A minor private way used by vehicles and pedestrians on a mobile home stand or used ror common access to a small group or stands or racilities. License: A written license issued by the Public Works Di~ector allowing a person to operate and maintain a mobile home park under the provisions or this Ordinance and regulations issued hereunder. Licensee: Any person licensed to operate and maintain a mobile home park under the provisions of this Ordinance. Mobile Home~ A movable or portable dwelling built on a vehicular chassis, connected to utilities and designed ror year round living on wheels or rigid supp6rts. Mobile Home Park: A uniried development or mobile home spaces arranged on a large tract or sure under single ownership, meeting all requirements or this Ordinance, and designed to accommodate mobile homes on a permanent basis. Mobile Home Subdivision: A uniried development or mobile homes sited on lots platted ror such purpose, which lots may be sold to the owners or mobile homes situated thereon, meeting the area and yard requirements or the Zoning Ordinance, and designed to accommodate mobile homes on a permanent basis. Permit: A written permit or certirication issued by the Public Works Director permitting the construction, alteration or ex- tension or a mobile home park under the provisions of this Ordinance and regulations issued hereunder. Person: Any natural individual, rirm, tr-ust, partnership, associa- tion or corporation. Service Building: A structure housing toilet, lavatory and such other racilities as may be required by this Ordinance. 1. 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 Sewer Connection: The connection consisting or all pipes, fittings and appurtenances rrom the drain outlet or a mobile home or travel trailer to the inlet or the corresponding sewer riser pipe of the sewage system serving the mobile home park. Sewer Riser Pipe: That portion or a sewer lateral which extends vertically to the ground elevation and terminates at a mobile home space. Space: A plot or ground within a mobile home park designed ror the accommodation or one mobile home unit. This term shall also include the terms "lot", "stand", and "stalIn. Water Connections: The connection consisting or all pipes, rit- tings, and appurtanances rrom the water riser pipe to the water inlet pipe or the distribution system within a mobile home or travel trailer. Water Riser Pipe: That portion or the water supply system serving a mobile home park which extends vertically to the ground eleva- tion and terminates at a designated point at a mobile home space. 1.17 Zoning Ordinance: The Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance or the City or Wylie, Texas. SECTION 2. PEm~ITS 2.01 Permit Required: It shall be unlawrul ror any person to construct, alter or extend any mobile home park within the limits or the City or Wylie unless he holdS a valid permit issued by the Public Works Director in the name or such person ror the speciric construction, alteration, or extension proposed. 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 AP1lication Requirements: ta n the following: a. Name and address or applicant. All applications ror permits shall con- b. Location and legal description or the mobile home park. c. A site plan, as herearter described. Permit Fee: All ap~lications shall be accompanied by the deposit or a ree or Firty ('50.00) Dollars plus One Dollar ($1.00) ror each mobile home space. Issuance or Permit: When, upon review or the application, the Public Works Director is satisried that the proposed plan meets the requirements of this and other applicable ordinances,a permit shall be issued. Denial or Permit: Hearing: Any person whose application ror a Permit under this Ordinance has been denied may request and shall be granted a hearing on the matter under the procedure provided by Section 5 of this Ordinance. SECTION 3. LICENSES 3.01 Licenses Required: It shall be unlawrul for any person to operate any mobile home park within the limits or the City or Wylie unless he holds a valid license issued annually by the Public Works Director in the name of such person for the specific park. All applications for license shall be made to the Public Works Director, who shall issue a license upon compliance by the applicant with provisions of this Ordinance. 2. 3.02 Application ror License; Renewal: a. Application ror original license shall be in writing, signed by the applicant, accompanied by an arridavit or the applicant as to the truth or the application and by the deposit or the license fee hereinarter provided, and shall contain: the name and address of the applicant; the location and legal description of the park; and a site plan or the park showing all mobile home spaces, structures, roads, walkways, and other service racilities. b. Application ror renewal of license shall be made in writing by the licensee and shall contain any change in the information submitted since the original license was issued or the latest renewal granted. 3.03 Transrer or License: Every person holding a license shall give notice in writing to the Public Works Director within twenty- rour (24) hours after having sold, transrerred,given away, or otherwise disposed or interest in or control or any park. Such notice shall include the name and address of the person succeed- ing to the ownership or control of such park. Upon application in writing for transfer of the license, the license shall be transferred if the park is in compliance with all applicable provisions of this Ordinance. 3.04 License Fee: All original license applications and license trans- fers shall be accompanied by the deposit of a ree of Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars. 3.05 Violations; Notice; Suspension of License: Whenever, upon in- spection of any mobile home or travel trailer park, the Public Works Director finds that conditions or practices exist which are in violation or any provision or this Ordinance, he shall give notice in writing in accordance with Section 5.01 to the licensee that unless such conditions or practices are corrected within a reasonable period of time specified in said notice, the license shall be suspended. At the end of such periOd, the Public Works Director shall reinspect such park and, if such con- ditions or practices have not been corrected, he shall suspend the license and give notice in writing of such suspension to the licensee. Upon receipt of notice such suspension, licensee shall cease operation of such park, except as provided in Section 5.02 hereof. 3.06 Denial of License; Hearin~: Any person whose application for a license under this Ordinance has been denied may request and shall be granted a hearing on the matter under the procedure provided by Section 5 or this Ordinance. SECTION 4. INSPECTION 4.01 Inspections Required: The Public Works Director is hereby autho- rized and directed to make such inspections as are necessary to determine satisractory compliance with this Ordinance. 4.02 Entry on Premises: The Public Works Director shall have the power to enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property for the purpose or inspecting and investigating conditions relat- ing to the enforcement or this Ordinance. It shall be the duty of the licensee or his agent to give the Public Works Director free access to all lots at reasonable times for the purpose of inspection. 4.03 Inspection or Register: The Public Works Director shall have the power to inspect the register containing a record of all residents of the mobile home park. 4.04 Duty or Occupants: It shall be the duty of every occupant of a mobile home park to give the licensee, his agent or authorized employe~ access to any part or such park at reasonable times for the purpose or making such repairs or alterations as are necessary to effect compliance with this Ordinance. 3. SECTION 5, NOTICES, HEARINGS, ATiD ORDERS 5.01 Notice of Violation; Re~uir~me~~~~_~q!~~t Whenever the Public Works Director determines that there are grounds to believe that there has been a violation of any provision of this Ordinance, the Public Works Director shall give notice or such alleged violation to the licensee or agent, as hereinafter provided. Such notice shall (a) be in writing; (b) include a statement or the reasons ror its issuance; (c) allow a reasonable time ror the performance of any act it requires; (d) be served upon the owner or his agent as the case may require; provided, that such notice or order shall be deemed to have been properly served upon such licensee or agent when a copy hereor has been sent by registered mail to his last known address, or when he has been served with such notice by any method authorized or required by the laws of this State; (e) con- tain an outline of remedial action which, ir taken, will errect compliance with the provisions or this Ordinance. 5.02 Appeal from Notice: Any person arfected by any notice w}lic~ has been issued in connection with the enrorcement of any provision of this Ordinance, may request and shall be granted a hearing on the matter before the Public Works Director; provided that such person shall rile in the orrice of the Public Works Director, a written petition requesting such hearing and setting rorth a brier statement of the grounds thereror within ten (10) days after the day the notice was served. The filing of the request for a hearing shall operate as a stay or the notice and or the suspension, except in the case of an order issued under Section 5.05. Upon receipt of such petition, the Public Works Director shall set a time and place for such hearing the petitioner shall be given an opportunity to be heard and show why such notice should be modiried or withdrawn. The hearing shall be commenced not later than ten (10) days arter the day on which the petition was filed; provided, that upon application of the petitioner the Public Works Director may postpone the date or the hearing for a reasonable time beyond such ten-day period when in his judgement the petitioner has sub- mitted good and surficient reasons for such postponement. 5.03 Hearing; Order: After such hearing the Public Works Director shall make findings as to compliance with the provisions of this Ordi- nance and shall issue an order in writing sustaining, modifying or withdrawing the notice, which order shall be served as provided in Section 5.01 (d). Upon failure to comply with any order sustain- ing or modifying the notice, the license or the park affected by the order shall be revolked. 5.04 Hearing Records; Judicial Review: The proceedings at such a hear- ing including the findings and decision of the Public Works Director, and together with a copy of every notice and order re- lated thereto shall be entered as a matter or public record in the orfice or the Public Works Director but the transcript of the proceedings need not be transcribed unless judicial review of the decision is sought as provided by this Section. Any person aggrieved by the decision or the Public Works Director may seek relier thererrom in any court of competent jurisdiction, as pro- vided by the laws of this State. 5.05 Order Without Notice: Whenever the Public Works Director finds that an emergency exists which requires immediate action to pro- tect the public health, he may without notice or hearing issue an order reciting the existance of such an emergency and requiring that such action be taken as he may deem necessary to meet the emergency, including the suspension of the permit or license. Not withstanding any other provisions of this Ordinance, such order shall be effective immediately. Any person to whom such an order is directed shall comply therewith immediately, but upon petition to the Public Works Director shall be afforded a hearing as soon as possible. The provisions of Section 5.03 and 5.04 shall be applicable to such hearing and the order issued there- after. 4. SECTION 6. MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISIONS 6.01 Any development of mobile homes as a mobile home subdivision shall be governed by the provisions of the Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance or the City pertinent thereto. SECTION 7. MOBILE HOME PARKS' 7.01 Site Requirements: Any development, redevelopment, alteration, or expansion of a mobile home park in the City shall be done in com- pliance with the following site requirements~ a. Location - A mobile home park shall be lOcated only where such use is permissible under the terms and provisions of the Zoning Ordinance. b. Site Plan - A site plan, as required by the Zoning Ordinance, shall be filed with the Public Works Director of the City, showing the following: I. The area and dimensions or the tract or land; 2. The number, location and size or all mobile home spaces; 3. The location, width, and specirications of roadways and walkways; 4. The location and specirications of water and sewer lines and riser pipes; 5. The location and details of lighting and electrical systems; 6. The location and specirications of all buildings con- structed or to be constructed within the park; 7. Such other inrormation as municipal reviewing ofricials may reasonably require. c. Soil and Ground Cover - Exposed ground surrace in all parts or every mobile home park shall be paved, covered with stone screenings or other solid material, or protected with a vegetative growth that is capable of preventing soil erosion and of eliminat- ing dust. d. Drainage - The ground surface in all parts or a park shall be graded and equipped to drain all surface water in a safe, efri- cient manner. The adequacy or drainage facilittes shall be veri- fied by a competent professional engineer. e. Area, Setbacks and Screening Requirements - The minimum areas, setbacks, spacing and screening shall be as prescribed in the Zoning Ordinance and/or by the Planning and Zoning Commission. f. Open Space - Open space recreation areas shall be provided in all parks accommodating or designed to accommodate twenty (20) or more mobile homes. The size or such recreation areas shall be based upon a minimum of 100 square feet for each lot. No outdoor recreation area shall contain less than 2,500 square feet. Such areas shall be located so as to be free from traffic hazards, easily accessible to all park residents, and centrally located where topography permits. g. Density Requirements - All mobile home parks shall have a maximum density of seven (7) mobile home spaces per gross acre. h. Community Television Antenna - All mobile homes shall have buried television antenna service from one central television antenna, and no individual outside television antennas will be allowed. 5. i.. Fencing Refuiraments - The entire mobile home park site shall be enclosed wi h a fence as rollows: I. Any area that abutts an external street or highway shall be renced with pressed brick or equal material to a height or six (6) feet; 2. Any site side line that joins the masonry rence shall be fenced for a distance of two-hundr~d (200) feet with wood renc- ing or equal to a height or six (6) feet; 3. All other fencing to complete enclosing the site shall be chain link or equal to a height or six (6) reet. 7.02 Access and Trafric Circulation: All mobile home parks shall provide access and means or motor vehicle and pedestrian trafric circula- tion as follows: a. Access - Motor vehicle entrances and exits shall be designed for safe and convenient traffic movement rrom adjacent public streets and onto internal streets and shall be limited to one entrance. b. Internal Streets - Internal streets shall be privately owned, built and maintained~ and shall be designed for sare and eonvenient access to all spaces and to facilities for common use or park residence. I. On all internal streets, roads or driveways designed or intended to provide access to two or more spaces, there shall be twenty (20) feet of pavement width unobstructed ror vehicular access at all times. 2. In the event such streets, roads or driveways are extended to be used also for vehicular parking, a parallel parking space shall be deemed to have a minimum width of eight (8) feet~ and no such parking space shall occupy or en- croach upon the minimum unobstructed access hereinabove prescribed. 3. Dead-end streets shall be limited in length to 1,000 feet, and shall be provided at the closed end with a turn-round having a radius or not less than thirty-eight (38) feet. c. Street Specirications Internal streets shall be constructed of five <SW) inch reinrorced concrete pavement 2~500 p.s.i. with six(6")inch intergral concrete curb and shall be maintained free of cracks, holes and other hazards. Roadways shall be lighted at night persuant to the residential street-lighting policy of the City. 7.03 d. Parkin~ Vehicular parking shall be provided in compliance with the Zoning Ordinance. Mobile Home Spaces: The area or the mobile home space shall be im- proved to provide adequate support for the placement of the mobile home, thereby securing the superstructure against uplift, Sliding, rotation and overturning due to frost action, inadequate drainage, vibration or other forces acting on the structure. Water Supply: a. General Requirements: An accessible, adequate, sare and potable supply of water shall be provided in each mobile home park. A public supply of water or satisfactory quantity, quality~ and pressure is available from the City or Wylie and a connec- tion shall be made thereto and its supply used exclusively. b. Source of Supply: 1. The water source shall be capable of supplying a minimum of 150 gallons per day per mobile home. 7.04 6. 2. Every line of the water supply system shall be located and constructed in such a manner that neither under ground nor surface contamination will reach the water supply from any source. c. Water Storage Facilities All water storage reservoirs shall be covered, watertight and constructed or impervious material. Overflows and vents or such reservoirs shall be effectively screened; manholes shall be constructed with overlapping covers, to prevent the entrance of contaminating material. Reservoir intake pipes shall discharge through an acceptable air gap. d. Water Distribution System: 1. The w~ter supply system of the mobile home Park shall be connected by pipes to all mobile homes, buildings, and other facilities requiring water. All mobile home parks shall have water lines of adequate size to supply sur- ricient water to approved rire hydrants so that no mobile home shall be located more than 500 reet from a rire hydrant. 2. All water piping, rixtures and other equipment shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with state and local regulations and requirements and shall be of a type and in locations approved by the Public Works Director. 3. The water piping system shall not be connected with non- potable or questionable water supplies and shall be pro- tected against the hazards of backflow of back siphonage. 4. The system shall be so designed and maintained as to provide a pressure or not less than 20 poundS per square inch, under normal operating conditions, at service build- ings and other locations requiring potable water supply. e. Individual Water Riser Pipes and Connections: I. Individual water riser pipes shall be located within the conrined area or the mobile home space at a point where the water connection will approximate a vertical position. 2. Water riser pipes shall extend at least rour (4) inches above ground elevation. The pipe shall be at least three quarter inch. The water outlet shall be capped when a mobile home does not occupy the space. 3. Adequate provisions shall be made to prevent freezing of service lines, valves and riser pipes and to protect risers rrom having and thawing actions or ground during rreezing weather. Surrace drainage shall be diverted from the location or the riser pipe. 7.05 Sewa~e Disposal: a. General Requirements An adequate and sare system shall be pro- vided in all mobile home parks ror conveying and disposing or all sewage. Such systems shall be designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with state and local laws. The sewer system shall be connected to the existing public sewer system of the City or Wylie. b. Sewer Lines All sewer lines shall be located in trenches or sufricient depth to be rree rrom breakage rrom trarric or other movements and shall be separated rrom the park water supply systems at a sare distance. Sewers shall be at a grade which will insure a velocity or two reet per second when rlowing full. All sewer lines shall be constructed of materials ap- proved by the Public Works Director, shall be adequately vented, and shall have watertight joints. 7. c. Individual S.wer Connections: I. Each mobile home stand shall be provided with at least a four inch diameter sewer riser pipe. The sewer riser pipe shall be so located on each stand that the sewer connection to the mobile home drain outlet will approximate a vertical position. 2. The sewer connection shall have a nominal inside diameter of at least three inches, and the slope of any portion thereof shall be at least one-rourth inch per foot. The sewer con- nectiom shall consist of one pipe line only without any branch fittings. All joints shall be watertight. 3. All materials used for sewer connections shall be semi- rigid, corrosion resistant, nonabsorbant and durable. The inner surface shall be smooth. 4. The sewer riser pipe shall be plugged when a mobile home does not occupy the lot. Surface drainage shall be di- verted away rrom the riser. The rim of the riser pipe shall extend at least four inches above ground elevation. d. Sewa~e Treatment and/or Dischar~e The Sewer lines of the mobile home park connected to the public sewer of Wylie. 7.06 Electrical Distribution System: a. General Requirements Every park shall contain an electrical wiring system consisting of wiring, rixtures, equipment and appurtenances which shall be installed and maintained in accordance with applicable codes and regulations governing such system. b. Power Distribution Lines: I. All electric power lines located in the mobile home park shall be buried below ground. 2. All direct burial conductors of cable shall be buried at least eighteen (l81 inches below the ground surface and shall be located not less than one (1) root radial dis- tance rrom water, sewer, gas or communication lines. c. Individual Electrical Connections: 1. Each mobile home lot shall be provided with an approved disconnecting device and over-current protective equipment. The minimum service per outlet shall be 120/240 volts AC, 60 amperes. 2. Outlets (Recepticles or pressure connectors) shall be housed in a weatherproof outlet box, and shall be located not more than 25 feet rrom the overcurrent protective device in the mobile home. A three-pole, four-wire grounding type shall be used. 3. Receptacles, ir provided, shall be in accordance with American Standard Outlet Receptacle C-73.1. 4. Connectors, if not substituted by more than one receptacle, shall be provided where the calculated load or the mobile home is more than 50 ampheres. 5. The mobile home shall be connected to the outlet box by an approved type of flexible supply cord with a male attach- ment plug or with pressure cor~ectors. 8. d. Required Grounding - All exposed non-current carrying metal parts of mobile homes and all other equipment shall be grounded by means of an approved grounding conductor with branch circuit conductors or other approved method of grounded metallic wiring. The neutral conductor shall not be used as an equipment ground ror mobile homes or other equipment. 7.07 Service Buildings and Other pommunity Service Facilities: a. General - The requirements or this Section shall apply to service buildings, recreation buildings and other community service facilities, such as management ofrices, maintenance and storage areas, and sanitary or laundry facilities. b. Required Community Sanitary Facilities - Every park shall be provided with emergency sanitary facilities consisting or not less than one (1) rlush toilet and one (1) lavatory per sex ror each 100 mobile home lots, or rractional part thereor, which shall be accessible to all mobile homes. c. Structural Requirements for Buildin~s: I. Service buildings shall be protected from damage by ordinary uses and by decay, corrosion, termites and other destructive elements. Exterior portions shall be or moisture and weather-proof materials and construction. 2. All rooms containing sanitary or laundry racilities shall: (a) Have sound resistant walls extending to the ceiling between male and remale sanitary racilities. Walls and partitions around showers, bathtubs, lavatories and other plumbing rixtures shall be constructed of dense, nonabsorbant water-proof material or covered with moisture-resistant material. (b) Have at least one window or skylight racing directly to the outdoors. The minimum aggregate gross area or windows ror each required room shall be not less than 10 per cent or the floor area served by them. (c) Have at least one window whic~ can be easily opened or an adequate mechanical ventilation device. 3. Toilets shall be located in separate compartments equipped with self-closing doors. Shower stalls shall be or the individual type. The rooms shall be screened to prevent direct view or the interior when the exterior doors are open. 4. Illumination levels shall be maintained as rollows: (a) General seeing tasks - Five (5) root-candles; (b) Laundry room work area - Forty (40) Foot-candles; (c) Toilet room, in rront of mirrors - Forty (40) foot-candles. 5. Hot and cold water shall be rurnished to every lavatory, sink, and bathtub, shower and laundry rixture, and cold water shall be furnished to every toilet and urinal. d. Barbecue Pits. Fireplaces, Stoves - Cooking Shelters, bar- becue pits and fireplaces shall be so located, constructed, maintained and used so as to minimize rire hazards and smoke nuisance. No open rire shall be le~t unattended. No fuel shall be used and no material burned which emits dense smoke or objectionable odors. No open rire shall be permitted except in approved racilities. 7.08 Reruse Handling: a. The storage, collection and disposal or reruse in the mobile 9. home park shall be so conducted as to create no health hazards, rodent harborage, insect breeding areas, accident or fire hazards or air pollution. b. All reruse shall be stored in fly tight, watertight, rodent proof containers, which shall be located at each mobile home space. Containers shall be provided in surficient number and capacity to properly store all reruse and shall not exceed thirty (30) gallons capacity or be excessive in weight. c. Reruse collection stands shall be provided ror all refuse containers. Such container stands shall be so designed as to prevent containers from being tipped, to minimize spillings and container deterioration and to racilitate cleaning around them. d. All reruse containing garbage shall be collected at least twice weekly. All reruse shall be collected and transported by the City of Wylie Sanitation Dept. All containers shall be placed at the curb on collection days. 7.09 Insect and Rodent Control: a. Grounds, building and structures shall be maintained free of insect and rodent harborage and infestation. Extermination methods and other measures to control insecta and rodents shall conror.m with the requirements or the City Health Department. b. Parks shall be maintained free of accumulations of debris which may provide rodent harborage or breeding places ror rlies, mesquitoes and other pests. c. The growth or brush, weeds and grass shall be controlled to prevent the harborage or noxious insects or other pests. Parks shall be so maintained as to prevent the growth or noxious weeds considered detriment~l to health. Open areas shall be maintained rree or heavy undergrowth or any description. 7.10 Fuel Supply and Storage: a. Natural Gas System I. Each space provided with piped gas shall have an approved manual shutofr valve installed upstream of the gas outlet. The outlet shall be equipped with an approved cap to pre- vent accidental discharge or gas when the outlet is not in use. 2. Natural gas piping systems shall be installed and maintained in accordance with applicable codes and regulations govern- ing such systems. b. Liquified Petroleum Gas Systems I. Liquified petroleum g~s systems shall be installed and maintained in accordance with applicable codes or the City governing such systems and regulations or the Texas Rail- road Commission pertaining thereto. 2. Systems shall be provided with safety devices to relieve excessive pressures and shall be arranged so that the dis- charge terminates at a safe location. 3. Systems shall have at least one accessible means ror shut- ting orr gas. Such means shall be located outside the mobile home and shall be maintained in errective operating condition. 10. 4. All LPG piping outside the mobile homes shall be well supported and protected against mechanical injury. Un- diluted liquiried petroleum gas in liquid rorm shall not be conveyed through piping equipment and systems in mobile homes. 5. Liquified petroleum gas containers installed on a space shall be securely but not permanently rastened to prevent accidental overturning. Such containers shall not be less than 12 not more than 60 u. S. gallons gross capacity. 6. No liquiried petroleum gas vessel shall be stored or located .inside or beneath any storage cabinet, carport, mobile home, or in any other structure, unless such in- stallations are approved by the Public Works Director. 7.11 Fire Protection: a. Mobile home parks shall be kept rree or litter, rubbish and other flammable materials. b. Portable rire extinguishers rated ror classes Band C rires shall be kept in service buildings and shall not be less than 5 pounds. c. Fire hydrants shall be installed in accordance with the follow- ing requirements: 1. The water supply system shall permit the operation of a minimum or two one and one-half inch hose streams and shall be at least 6 inches in diameter. 2. Each of two nozzles, held rour reet above the ground, shall deliver at least 75 gallons of water per minute at a rlow- ing pressure or at least 30 pounds per square inch at the highest elevation point or the park. d. Fire hydrants shall be located within 500 feet or any mobile home, service building or other structure in the park, such distance to be measured along the street. 7.12 Non-Conforming Mobile Home Parks a. Any mobile home park in existance at the time or passage of this Ordinance which does not meet the regulations as set forth herein, shall not enlarge, extend or improve this non-conrorming mobile home park unless the enlargement, extention or improve- ment meets with the terms or this ordinance. 7.13 Miscellaneous Requirements :. a. Responsibilities or the Park Management I. The licensee or his agent shall operate the park in com- pliance with this and other applicable ordinances and shall provide adequate supervision to maintain the park, its racilities and equipment in good repair and in clean and sanitary condition. 2. The licensee or agent shall notiry park occupants or all applicable provisions of this Ordinance and inform them or their duties and responsibilities under this Ordinance. 3. The licensee or agent shall supervise the placement of each mobile home on its mobile home stand and the installing of all utility connections. 4. The licensee or agent shall maintain a register or park occupancy which shall contain the rollowing inrormation: (a) Name and address of park residents II. (b) Mobile home registration date, including make, length, width, year or manuracture and indentification number (c) Location or each mobile home within the park by space or lot number (d) Dates or arrival and departure (e) A new register shall be initiated on January lst of each year, and the old register may thereafter be re- tired but shall be retained on the premises for at least three (3) years following its retirement. Re- gisters shall be available for inspection at all reason- able times by any orricial or the City or Wylie whose duties may necessitate access to the inrormation con- tained therein. 5. The licensee or agent shall rurnish to the Accessor and Collector of taxes for the City of Wylie within ten (10) days arter the rirst day of January or each year, a list of all mobile home residents in the park on the first day of January, showing the owner's name and address, the make, length, width, year or manufacture and identirication number of the mobile home, and the address of location description of said mobile home within the park. Said lists shall be prepared using rorms provided by the Assessor and Collector or Taxes or the City. b. Responsibilities of Park Occupants 1. The park occupant shall comply with all requirements of this Ordinance and shall maintain his mobile home space, its facilities and equipment in good repair and in a clean and sanitary condition. 2. The park occupant shall be responsible for proper place- ment or his mobile home on its mobile home stand and proper installation of all utilities connections in accordance with the instructions or the park management. All mobile homes shall be underpinned or skirted with a solid sheet material. All four sides of the trailer shall be enclosed from the bottom or the mobile home to the ground. 3. Skirting, porches, awnings and other additions, when in- stalled, shall be maintained in good repair. The use of space immediately underneath a mobile home ror storage shall be permitted only under the following conditions: (a) The storage area shall have a base of impervious material. (b) Stored items shall not interrere with the underneath inspection of the mobile home. (c) The storage area shall be enclosed by skirting. 7.14 12. SECTION 8. Ir any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, phrase, or clause of this Ordinance shall be declared invalid for any reason whatsoever, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance which shall remain in full force and effect; and to this end the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby declared to be severable. SECTION 9. All provisions of any ordinance in conflict herewith are hereby repealed so far only as it affects only that portion described herein. SECTION 10. Any person who violates any provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdeameanor, and upon conviction thereror shall be fined any sum not exceeding Two-Hundred ($200.00) Dollars. Each day the violation continues shall be considered a separate orrense. SECTION II. The caption or this ordinance shall be published one (1) time in a news- paper having general circulation in the City or Wylie and shall be erfective immediately upon its passage and publication. PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WYLIE, TEXAS, ON THIS THE 3t:9 'w DAY OF ~L 1970. CORRECTLY ENROLLED: tYA---{./4..-/~~(. " (l-i. ____ Mayor ATTEST: /n' 9-1 ,1 ," Lvr'-L~A ~g~ iiJ City Secretary J 13. ~ t , " " ~" i. Page Six - The Wylie News - Thursday, APril 9, 1970 "'o.'~',;"_ . c Cjtyl~;rdinance ' A ,;rqi:n.~cepassed and ap vedr by,. the City of W 'effective onthe date of . lication. 'rf:::,,;i{"_f':? ,N,iN;~!E;'Nb. 70-2 f';::;'i';':<" i:':' '(!t>-;~(?jfH . Ai~1:dRDI~~NtE REGU- T..iA~l';FNG, :v,fd;BILE HOME PARKS; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND EST ABLI- SHING LICENSE FEES; ESTABLISHING PHYSI- CAL REQUIREMENTS; REGULATING THE LO- CATION OF SAID PARKS; ES T ABLISHING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE OPERA TION' OF SAID PARKS; ESTAB- LIS HING REQUIRE- MENTS FOR W ATE R, SEWER. AND ELECl'lU- CALF ACILITIES';PRE- SCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE CAPTION OF THIS ORDINANCE AND THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF. New Traffic." Laws ...;.~he Texas Safety Association reminds motorists that changes in Texas traffic laws now re- quire the driver approaching a paved street or highway from an unpaved roadway to yield the right of way. Helping Beat the HCL Major item in the high cost of living picture is food. Homemakers are learn- ing to be better shoppers, comparing brands and sizes, watching for specials. But when it comes to meat ,it often isn't easy. Here's where the modern pressure cooker can help beat the HCL. Even the least expensi vemeat cuts, which take hours to cook by more conventional methods, become deliCiOUSly tender in one-third the time. And budget meats are every bit as nutritious as steaks, roasts and chops . What 's more, they keep these nu- trients intact when they're quickly cooked under pres- sure,', Noris the choice of ap- petizing pressure-cooked dishes limited to stews, pot ,roasts or soups, though these, too, can be savory and satisfying. Imagine ex- otic Hawaiian Short Ribs, creamy Potato-Ham Scallop, zesty Lima Bean Sausage Pot, hearty Hungarian Gou- lash. plus many marvelous ways with chicken. AU thrifty and good eating. These recipes, along with over a hundred more, can be found in the recipe and in- struction book that comes with each Presto pressure cooker. (NP Features) '~J l~; ',(} ; r{1'~~) Notice .Of P-p.blic Mee,.i.na.,] :JI""'~'i;r-,e- .r"J'.~.:: lo'. 'viol'_~ "'_.1 .41 ,~,jl"l' '\!i:., . pOintf.Qi. cpr-ner in.,the ea.Eh dJ4:tit, ot!1.Wa' 11th!! of Qtd ;S:ili~e'Hi~hWa~ '78;,:i\1.' ''-'~''rl;'" \";!"H~ .:"';-,:, h,,,:!J.:..~.'.'i. THENCe" :iij:"~)'?dhe!h direcdon"a:rtd, at' all', nm'es following 'along' the pre- set nt ,~a,s t, tAgbt 9f wa>; .line ()f Olq Stil.te HtgP\V8y 78 to a.poigtfCl.r1 corne':r;,.silid QoirlS )e~'l'!g;,in:'..a' Ji~~.9.f the "pr~sentJ'cornerltrn.lt of Wylie, 'Texas:,'''''';; A hnexa tion "Proceedings of a tract of land whose description is as follows: WHE REAS, the following described property is contiguous to the city lim- its of the City of Wylie; and WHEREAS, is is in the best interest of the' City of Wylie that said pro- perty be made a paJrt of the city limits; , BE IT, THEREFORE OR-' DAINED BY the city of Council of the City of Wylie, Texas; That the following de- scribed property, to-wit; BEGINNING at a present el corner in the south corporate limit of Wylie. Texas said el corner being i~ the west right of way hne of Old State Highway 78; , . T.HEN~E in a southerly directIon and at alltimes fOllOWing along the pre- sent right of way line of Old State Highway 78 to a point for corner, said point being 2640 feetdis- tance from point of be- ginning; THENCE in an easterly direction crossing Old State Highway 78 to a ER THENCE, In., a westerly direction and at, all times fOllowlng,. along the pre- sent ,corporate limu of Wyl1e,crossing met State Highway. 78 ,to the place of beginning;, ' ' Meeti11gw, ii,i, b~,', held, 'i~'t6e City Hall on April 20, .1970 at 7:30p.m. 'i Oneida Gallagher City Secretary ..-