Ordinance 1970-02
ORDINANCE NO.
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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.
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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:
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Lvr'-L~A ~g~ iiJ
City Secretary J
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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.
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,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
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