As used in this Chapter, the following words and terms shall be defined as follows:

(a)   City means the City of Maize, Kansas.

(b)   Code means the Code of the City.

(c)   City Administrator means the City Administrator or his/her authorized representative.

(d)   Effective Date of the Ordinance means the date of publication of a summary of the Ordinance creating this Chapter 18 of the Code of the City of Maize, Kansas, in the official City newspaper after it has been passed by the Governing Body of the City and approved by the Mayor.

(e)   Manufactured/Mobile Home means a dwelling unit built on or after June 15, 1976, which is fabricated in one or more sections at a location other than the home site by assembly line type production techniques or by other construction methods unique to an off-site manufacturing process. Every section shall bear a label certifying that it is built in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards generally known as the HUD code established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §5403. A Manufactured/Mobile Home is designed to be towed on its own chassis or be site-delivered by alternative means. A Manufactured/Mobile Home shall be transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode is eight (8) body feet or more in width or forty (40) body feet or more in length or, when erected on site is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein. The term Manufactured/Mobile Home does not include a Recreational Vehicle.

(f)    Manufactured/Mobile Home Space and/or Mobile Home Space means a space where a Manufactured/Mobile Home or Mobile Home is designed to be located, a plot of ground which accommodates one (1) Manufactured/Mobile Home or Mobile Home and which provides service facilities for water, sewage and electricity.

(g)   Manufactured/Mobile Home Installation Contractor means a contractor who has been licensed as required by the State of Kansas to obtain required permits to perform blocking, anchorage, tie-down installation and skirting installation as required by this chapter.

(h)   Manufactured/Mobile Home Park means a parcel of land which has been planned and improved in some manner and used or intended to be used by one or more occupied Manufactured/Mobile Homes not placed on permanent foundations. The term Manufactured/Mobile Home Park does not include sales lots on which unoccupied Manufactured/Mobile Homes, whether new or used, are parked for the purpose of storage, inspection or sale.

(i)    Mobile Home Park means a parcel of land which is occupied by one or more Mobile Homes or Manufactured/Mobile Homes, which is in existence on the Effective Date of the Ordinance and which is non-conforming in one or more ways to requirements of the City that apply to Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks and/or is not licensed as a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park.

(j)    Mobile Home means a movable detached single-family dwelling unit that was manufactured prior to June 15, 1976 and is not in conformance to the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act, or HUD code, as is now required for a Manufactured/Mobile Home. Such units shall provide all of the accommodations necessary to be a dwelling unit and shall be connected to the utilities in conformance with all of the applicable regulations. The term “Manufactured/Mobile Home” or “Mobile Home” does not include a Recreational Vehicle.

(k)   Occupy, occupancy or occupied means the use of any Mobile Home, Manufactured/Mobile Home or Recreational Vehicle by any person for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes for any period of four (4) or more consecutive days.

(l)    Operator means the person or business that has charge, care or control of a licensed or unlicensed Park or Campground.

(m)  Park means Manufactured/Mobile Home Park or Mobile Home Park.

(n)   Person means any individual, firm, trust, partnership, association or corporation.

(o)   Recreational Vehicle means a unit designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use; units may have their own power or be designed to be drawn or mounted on an automotive vehicle. Recreational Vehicle shall include motor homes, travel trailers, truck campers, camping trailers, converted buses, house boats or other similar units as determined by the City Administrator.

(p)   Recreational Vehicle Campground or Campground means a lot, tract or parcel of land designed for occupancy by Recreational Vehicles for temporary or transient living purposes, including the use of camping spaces for tents.

(q)   Recreational Vehicle Space means a space located within a Campground that accommodates one (1) Recreational Vehicle.

(r)    Roadway means any private street within a Park that provides for the general vehicular and pedestrian circulation within the Park.

(s)   Service Building means a building housing all of the following: separate toilet facilities for men and women, laundry facilities and separate bath or shower accommodations. Such building may also include other associated uses such as an office and recreational facilities for the Campground or Park.

It is unlawful for any person to occupy a Manufactured/Mobile Home unless the Manufactured/Mobile Home is located in a licensed Manufactured/Mobile Home Park or a licensed Mobile Home Park. It is unlawful for any person to occupy a Mobile Home unless such Mobile Home is located in a licensed Mobile Home Park.

EXCEPTIONS:

(a)   A Manufactured/Mobile Home may be occupied at a construction site by a night watchman or construction project workmen when approved by the City Administrator when deemed necessary for security and/or construction purposes. Such permission may be canceled by the City Administrator upon three (3) days written notice when, in his opinion, the intent of this Section is being violated. Manufactured/Mobile Homes will be removed from a construction site within thirty (30) days of the substantial completion of a construction project.

(b)   A Manufactured/Mobile Home may be occupied as a one-family dwelling as a residence for a watchman, caretaker or guard for an industrial use in the “LI” zoning district, provided such Home is placed on a permanent foundation.

(a)   A Manufactured/Mobile Home installation permit shall be obtained from the City for every Manufactured/Mobile Home which is installed or relocated within the City. The purpose of such Manufactured/Mobile Home installation permit is to assure that Manufactured/Mobile Homes are anchored and placed on footings and foundations as required by Section 18-117 and comply with all requirements contained in this Chapter 18. Manufactured/ Mobile Home installation permits shall be obtained at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to installation of any Manufactured/Mobile Home within the City. Manufactured/ Mobile Home installation permits may only be obtained by a State of Kansas licensed Manufactured/ Mobile Home Installation Contractor.

(b)   After the Effective Date of the Ordinance:

(1)   No additional Mobile Homes will be brought into the City, no additional Mobile Homes will be installed in a Mobile Home Park, and Mobile Homes may not be removed from one Mobile Home Park and relocated to another Mobile Home Park.

(2)   No Manufactured/Mobile Home will be installed on a location unless it is lawful to occupy the Manufactured/Mobile Home under Section 18-102; and

(3)   Mobile Homes, when removed from a Mobile Home Park, may not be replaced.

No Manufactured/Mobile Home installation permit shall be issued to any Manufactured/Mobile Home Installation Contractor who has not first obtained a license from the State of Kansas that is in good standing.

(a)   After the Effective Date of the Ordinance, except for the period of time allowed in Section 18-106 and elsewhere in this Chapter 18, it shall be unlawful for any person to construct, maintain and operate any Manufactured/Mobile Home Park, Mobile Home Park or Campground within the City unless such person is licensed by the City to operate the same, with such license not being transferrable except with the consent of the City.

(b)   There shall be assessed against each Manufactured/Mobile Home Space located within the corporate limits of the City an annual impact license fee that will be assessed and paid as follows:

(1)   The fee for a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park shall be based upon the number of lots in the Manufactured/ Mobile Home Park then existing as of January 1 of each calendar year. The fee shall be in the amount of Twenty Dollars ($20) for each Manufactured/Mobile Home Space or Mobile Home Space and will be paid to the City not later than February 15 of each year, except that for any newly added Manufactured/Mobile Home the impact fee shall be Fifty Dollars ($50) for the year or part of the year in which the Space is added which shall be paid immediately.

(2)   Mobile Home Parks shall pay the City an annual impact fee that equals the amount the City of Wichita, Kansas, assesses against similarly situated Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks located within its city limits. The City Administrator is responsible for researching City of Wichita, Kansas, fees and for setting the annual impact fee for Mobile Home Parks based on the City Administrator’s research. The Mobile Home Park annual impact fee will be due starting July 1, 2015, and each July 1 thereafter.

(3)   Mobile Home Parks’ impact fees will increase to equal the fee that Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks are required to pay under Section 18-105(b)(1) of the Code if the fee title owner of a Mobile Home Park as of the Effective Date of the Ordinance conveys, sells, transfers and/or assigns the fee title ownership of the Mobile Home Park to another entity or person. Impact fees for Mobile Home Parks will continue to be due on July 1 of each year. The increased impact fee specified in Section 18-105(b)(1) of the Code will be due the first July 1 following a change in fee title ownership that occurs between a preceding July 1 and an upcoming July 1.

(4)   Each day an annual license fee for a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park remains unpaid after February 15 of any year and for a Mobile Home Park remains unpaid after July 1 of any year will constitute a separate violation. In addition, the annual license fee will be increased by one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month during the time period the license fee remains unpaid.

(a)   All persons operating existing Mobile Home Parks must obtain a license to operate a Mobile Home Park on or before July 1, 2015. Applications for Mobile Home Park licenses must be made at least thirty (30) days before July 1, 2015. The application shall be submitted on forms prepared by the City Administrator.

(b)   Each licensed Park and Campground will have a designated operator. The name and contact information for each operator will be provided to the City at the time an application for a license is made, annually when a license is renewed and within ten (10) calendar days of the date an Operator registered with the City leaves the Park or Campground.

(a)   All persons developing Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks and Campgrounds after the Effective Date of the Ordinance must make an application to the City Administrator for the Manufactured Home Park license or Campground license. The application fee will be One Thousand Dollars ($1,000). An application for a license may be made only after a development plan has been approved by the Director of Planning of the City in accordance with the zoning code of the City. When platting is required, the development plan shall be submitted at the preliminary platting stage. When platting is not required, a sketch plan showing the relationship of the Manufactured/Mobile Home Spaces or Recreational Vehicle Spaces to the Roadways, parking, open space and other information affecting the overall environment of the Park may be submitted for approval by the Director of Planning of the City.

(b)   The application will be in triplicate, in writing, signed by the applicant and will include the following:

(1)   the name, address and telephone number of the applicant;

(2)   the name, address and telephone number of the person who is designated to be the Operator of the Manufactured/Mobile Home Park or Campground;

(3)   the location and legal description of the Manufactured/Mobile Home Park or Campground;

(4)   at least three (3) complete sets of plans showing compliance with all applicable provisions of this Chapter, including a plot plan drawn to scale at not less than one inch (1”) equal to one hundred feet (100’) showing the Manufactured/Mobile Home Park or Campground dimensions;

(5)   the number and location of Manufactured/Mobile Home Spaces;

(6)   the location and width of Roadways, sidewalks, off-street parking and easements;

(7)   the location, size and specifications of buildings, sewers, water lines and gas lines;

(8)   the location of any sewage disposal system and water supply system;

(9)   the existing topography; and

(10) a drainage grading plan.

The submitted plans will be approved by the City Administrator for construction only after they have been reviewed and approved by the Director of Planning. Approval and issuance of a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park license for a new Manufactured/ Mobile Home Park, and of a Campground license for a new Campground, will not be completed until construction in accordance with the approved plans has been completed.

(c)   An application for any addition to an existing Manufactured/Mobile Home Park shall be processed as an application for a new Manufactured/Mobile Home Park. Mobile Home Parks cannot be expanded. Any licensed Mobile Home Park can be converted to a licensed Manufactured/Mobile Home Park if all conditions that apply in this Chapter 18 to Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks are complied with including, but not limited to the requirement that no Mobile Home can be located in a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park. An application to convert from a Mobile Home Park license to a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park license will be processed as an application for a new Manufactured/Mobile Home Park license.

Any person desirous of locating a Manufactured/ Mobile Home or Recreational Vehicle in accordance with Section 18-102(a) or 18-102(b) must make an application to the City Administrator for a temporary permit. A One Hundred Dollar ($100) application fee will be paid at the time the application is filed. Such application will be in writing, signed by the applicant and will include the following: the name, address and telephone number of the applicant; the location and legal description of the property where the Manufactured/Mobile Home is requested to be located; and shall provide all other applicable information as follows:

(a)   Those applications requested in accordance with Sections 18-102(a) and 18-102(b) shall give the reason such application is being made and shall give the number of days the Manufactured/Mobile Home is intended to be parked which, in no event, shall exceed one hundred twenty (120) days. The application shall be accompanied by a plot plan drawn to scale showing the legal description and boundaries of the application area, the location of existing buildings, and the location of where the Manufactured/Mobile Home will be parked;

(b)   The connection of the Manufactured/Mobile Home to any utility shall be in accordance with all applicable regulations of this Code.

All Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks shall be located in accordance with the provisions of the zoning code of the City and shall be located on a well-drained site properly graded to insure adequate drainage and freedom from stagnant pools of water. Plans and specifications for the drainage and grading system, including Roadways, storm sewers and appurtenances, and general drainage and grading shall be prepared by a licensed professional engineer.

(a)   Area: Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks shall contain the minimum area as required by the zoning code of the City.

(b)   Setbacks: All Manufactured/Mobile Homes shall comply with the setbacks and clearances as set forth for Manufactured Home Parks in the zoning code of the City.

EXCEPTIONS TO ACCESSORY STRUCTURE SETBACK REQUIREMENTS:

(1)   Accessory structures of non-combustible construction which do not exceed one hundred (100) square feet in area and have no electrical power may be located closer than three (3) feet to the main use structure or other appropriately located accessory structures on the same Manufactured/Mobile Home Park lot. Such accessory structures must be located at least ten (10) feet from main use structures on any adjoining lot and at least six (6) feet from all structures on any adjoining lot. If an accessory structure greater than one hundred (100) square feet in area is open on all sides and is constructed of non-combustible materials, such accessory structure may be closer than six (6) feet to the main use structure on the same lot or may even abut the main use structure on the same lot. For such accessory structure, the minimum separation to an adjoining lot structure which is also constructed of non-combustible materials may be reduced from ten (10) feet to six (6) feet by the City Administrator. Accessory structures must be located on concrete, asphalt or asphaltic concrete pads.

(c)   Roadways:

(1)   All Manufactured/Mobile Home spaces or Recreational Vehicle spaces located in a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park or Campground shall abut a Roadway. No Manufactured/Mobile Home Space or Recreational Vehicle Space located in a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park or Campground shall have its direct access from a public street or highway. Roadways shall be in general conformance to the local residential street requirements of the City subdivision regulations. Roadway widths shall not be less than thirty (30) feet. All Roadways shall have unobstructed access to a public street or highway, with all dead-end private Roadways being provided an adequate vehicular turnaround (cul de sac) with a diameter of not less than seventy (70) feet, or shall have an alternate turnaround area such as hammerheads, etc., as may be approved by the City Administrator or designee as providing service equal to the cul de sac. All Manufactured/Mobile Home Park and Campground Roadways shall be surfaced with concrete, asphaltic concrete, asphalt or other comparable surfacing. The Operator of a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park or Campground will be responsible for maintaining the Roadway to a standard that complies with this Section 18-110(c)(1) at all times.

(2)   On or before July 1, 2015, and thereafter, Roadways in Mobile Home Parks shall at all times be constructed and maintained to a standard that complies with service drive requirements and standards as set by the Sedgwick County Fire District No. 1 as currently exist and as may be amended from time to time. A Mobile Home Park’s obligation to construct and maintain Roadways will change from standards set in this Section 18-110(c)(3) of the Code to standards set in Section 18-110(c)(1) of the Code if the fee title owner of a Mobile Home Park as of the Effective Date of the Ordinance conveys, sells, transfers or assigns the fee title ownership of the Mobile Home Park to another entity or person. Roadways located within a Mobile Home Park will be constructed and maintained to standards set at Section 18-110(c)(1) of the Code not later than ninety (90) days from the date fee title ownership of the Mobile Home Park is conveyed, sold, transferred and/or assigned to a person or entity that is different than the fee title owner on the Effective Date of the Ordinance.

(d)   Patios and Storage Lockers:

(1)   Each Manufactured/Mobile Home Space located within a Manufactured/ Mobile Home Park shall be provided with a paved patio of at least two hundred (200) square feet, which may be of concrete, masonry, wood or other hard surface material. A storage locker of at least one hundred twenty (120) cubic feet shall be provided for each Manufactured/Mobile Home Space. Storage lockers shall be designed in a manner that will enhance the Park and shall be constructed of suitable weather-resistant materials.

(2)   Storage lockers of not less than forty-nine (49) square feet shall be provided for each Manufactured/Mobile Home Space or Mobile Home Space within a Mobile Home Park that is occupied by a Manufactured/Mobile Home or a Mobile Home. Mobile Home Parks will be required to comply with Section 18-110(d)(1) of the Code, and this Section 18-110(d)(2) will not apply to a Mobile Home Park if the fee title owner of the Mobile Home Park as of the Effective Date of the Ordinance conveys, sells, transfers or assigns the fee title ownership of the Mobile Home Park to another entity or person. The obligation for a Mobile Home Park to be in compliance with Section 18-110(d)(1) will be effective ninety (90) days from the date the fee title owner of the Mobile Home Park as of the Effective Date of the Ordinance conveys, sells, transfers or assigns to another entity or person the fee title ownership of the Mobile Home Park.

(e)   Off-Street Parking: Surfaced off-street parking of asphalt, asphaltic concrete or concrete for two (2) vehicles shall be provided within the Manufactured/Mobile Home Park and Campground for each Manufactured/Mobile Home Space and Recreational Vehicle Space as required by the zoning code of the City. No portion of the Park Roadways shall be used to provide the required off-street parking.

(f)    Recreation Space: Each Manufactured/Mobile Home Park shall devote at least eight percent (8%) of its gross area to recreation space for the use and enjoyment of the occupants of the Park. Each such recreational space shall not be less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet of land area. Required setbacks and clearances and the Roadways and off-street parking spaces shall not be considered as recreational space.

(g)   Screening: Screening of new or expanded Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks must be provided as required by the zoning code of the City.

(h)   Lighting: All Manufactured/Mobile Home Park and Campground Roadways shall be lighted at night with not less than seven thousand (7,000) lumen lamps at a maximum interval of two hundred (200) feet located approximately twenty (20) feet from the ground, or friendship lights (gas or electric) with lighting equal to forty (40) watts, and lighted automatically from dusk to dawn, shall be provided for each Manufactured/Mobile Home Space adjacent to the Manufactured/Mobile Home Park Roadways, and at a maximum interval of seventy-five (75) feet adjacent to Camp Roadways.

(i)    Landscaping: Landscaping of new or expanded Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks must provide required landscaping in accordance with Chapter 17 of the Code of the City.

(j)    Existing night lighting in Mobile Home Parks: Mobile Home Parks with existing night lights do not have to comply with Section 18-110(h) of the Code of the City; EXCEPT Mobile Home Parks with night lighting will maintain night lighting of the Mobile Home Park at current levels or better levels than currently exist. Existing Mobile Home Parks that currently do not have night lighting shall install three (3) light poles at locations as determined by the City Administrator that are twenty (20) feet off the ground that each provide not less than seven thousand (7,000) lumen lamps by July 1, 2015. Mobile Home Parks’ night lighting requirements will be upgraded to comply with the requirements contained in Section 18-110(h) of the Code not later than ninety (90) days from the date the fee title owner of the Mobile Home Park as of the Effective Date of the Ordinance conveys, sells, transfers or assigns the fee title ownership of the Mobile Home Park to another person or entity.

(a)   General Requirements. Every Park containing ten (10) or more Manufactured/Mobile Home Spaces and/or Mobile Home Spaces must be provided with above-grade or below-grade storm shelters which shall:

(1)   have a minimum floor area of ten (10) square feet for each Manufactured/ Mobile Home Space and Mobile Home Space in the Park;

(2)   be designed by a licensed structural engineer or architect and built in accordance with plans sealed by said structural engineer or architect;

(3)   be designed and constructed to meet all Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requirements and guidelines if the shelter is located in a floodplain;

(4)   be designed and constructed to meet the minimum lighting, ventilation and exiting requirements of the City’s currently-adopted editions of the City building code, mechanical code, plumbing code and electrical code, where applicable;

(5)   be designed and constructed to meet all applicable requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA);

(6)   be located no farther than one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) linear feet from the furthest Manufactured/Mobile Home Space or Mobile Home Space in the Park.

(b)   Restroom Facilities. Restroom facilities in required storm shelters shall be optional. Toilets may be either flush-type operating from normal water supply, chemical or other types as approved by the Sedgwick County Health Department.

(c)   Access to Shelters. Storm Shelters will be accessible and usable at all times. It is unlawful for any required storm shelter to be used for storage purposes if such storage reduces the minimum floor area available for shelter of persons below the requirements of subparagraph (a) of this section.

(d)   A Mobile Home Park must comply with this Section 18-111 of the Code not later than ninety (90) days from the date the fee title owner of the Mobile Home Park as of the Effective Date of the Ordinance conveys, sells, transfers or assigns the fee title ownership of the Mobile Home Park to another entity or person.

(a)   Garbage and refuse collection will be provided and paid for by the Manufactured/Mobile Home Park. One dumpster that has the capacity to hold not less than eight (8) cubic yards of garbage and refuse will be provided at each Manufactured/Mobile Home Park for every sixteen (16) Manufactured/Mobile Homes that are located in a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park. Mobile Home Park Operators shall have refuse collection systems that serve the needs of residents of the Mobile Home Park.

(b)   Garbage and refuse collection will be provided and paid for by the Operator of a Campground. One dumpster will be provided per sixteen (16) Recreational Vehicle spaces in a Campground.

(c)   Garbage and refuse storage and collection in Parks and Campgrounds will be maintained so as to create no health hazards, rodent harboring, insect breeding, accident hazard or air pollution.

(d)   Dumpsters will be located on concrete pads of six inches (6”) or greater thickness.

(e)   On or before July 1, 2015, Operators of Mobile Home Parks will be responsible for providing garbage and refuse collection to persons who reside within the Park at no cost to the persons who reside within the Park. Bins for disposal and collection of garbage and refuse will be provided by the Operator of the Mobile Home Park in a manner that is adequate to serve the needs of the residents of the Mobile Home Park. A Mobile Home Park, instead of complying with this Section 18-112(e) of the Code, shall comply with Section 18-112(a), (b), (c), and (d) of the Code not later than ninety (90) days from the date the fee title owner of the Mobile Home Park as of the Effective Date of the Ordinance conveys, sells, transfers and/or assigns fee title ownership of the Mobile Home Park to another entity or person.

(a)   Maintenance Free from Infestation. Parks and Campgrounds shall be maintained free of excessive insect or rodent infestation.

(b)   Preventive Environmental Maintenance. The Park or Campground Operator shall keep all areas outside of the confines of the individual Manufactured/Mobile Homes, Mobile Homes, or Recreational Vehicles reasonably free of breeding, harboring and feeding places for rodents and insects. Areas shall be kept free of litter, trash, salvage material, junk and weeds or other noxious vegetation growths in excess of six inches (6”) in height. Manufactured/Mobile Home, Mobile Home, or Recreational Vehicle owners and tenants will be jointly and severally responsible for extermination of any insect or rodent infestations occurring within individual Manufactured/Mobile Homes, Mobile Homes, or Recreational Vehicles.

(a)   It shall be the duty of the Operator of each Park and Campground to keep a register containing a record of all Manufactured/Mobile Home, Mobile Home, and Recreational Vehicle owners and tenants located within each Park and Campground. The register shall contain the name and address of each occupant; the make, model, year and manufacturer of each Manufactured/ Mobile Home or Recreational Vehicle; the dates of arrival and departure of each Manufactured/Mobile Home, Mobile Home, or Recreational Vehicle, including the name of the Contractor(s) responsible for connections to the utilities. The Operator of each Park or Campground shall keep the register available for inspection at all reasonable hours by law enforcement officers, assessor, public health officials and other officials whose duties necessitate acquisition of the information contained in the register. The original records of the register shall not be destroyed for a period of three (3) years following the date of registration.

(b)   It shall be the responsibility of the Operator of each Park or Campground to notify the Code Enforcement Officer of damage exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) by fire or storm to any Manufactured/Mobile Home, Mobile Home or Recreational Vehicle in their Park or Campground. The Code Enforcement Officer shall compile all such information into categories of losses and their causes, as nearly as can be determined, for future reference.

(c)   It shall be the duty of the Operator of each Manufactured/Mobile Home Park to notify the City Administrator of every new or relocated Manufactured/Mobile Home installed in an existing Space at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the date of installation so that the City Administrator or designee can inspect for compliance with this Chapter 18.

(a)   Alterations and additions to Manufactured/Mobile Homes and Mobile Homes which are affected by provisions contained in this Chapter, within or to a Park and facilities, shall be made only after application to the City Administrator and in conformity with all of the sections of the Code of the City.

(b)   No additions of any kind shall be built onto or become a part of any Manufactured/Mobile Home or Mobile Home.

EXCEPTION: Accessory structures not exceeding an area of one hundred (100) square feet of enclosed space, carports and residential patio structures may be attached to or become a part of a Manufactured/Mobile Home or Mobile Home if the structure complies in all respects to the applicable provisions of the building code and other technical codes, and permits are secured from the City Administrator.

Skirting of Manufactured/Mobile Homes or Mobile Homes is permissible only with noncombustible material; however, skirting shall not be permanently attached to the Manufactured/Mobile Home, Mobile Home, or to the ground that would provide a harborage for rodents or create a fire hazard.

Additions and alterations may be made to any Manufactured/Mobile Home in a Manufactured/Mobile Home Park. Such additions or alterations shall also be placed on a permanent foundation as required by the building code of the City. Whenever any Manufactured/Mobile Home does not have a continuous perimeter foundation, continuous perimeter skirting shall be installed. Such skirting shall be of noncombustible material and resistant to deterioration due to weather.

(a)   Any Manufactured/Mobile Home or Mobile Home which is occupied or inhabited by any person as a dwelling, office or commercial space will be secured to the ground by tie-downs and ground anchors of a type which has been approved by the State of Kansas pursuant to the Mobile Home Security Requirements Act(K.S.A. 75-1226 et seq.) (the “Act”), unless such Manufactured/Mobile or Mobile Home is secured to the ground on a permanent foundation as prescribed by the Act.

(b)   Any Mobile Home secured with tie-downs and ground anchors which were installed prior to July 1, 1975, will be deemed in compliance with this Section 18-117 if such tie-down devices were placed in a manner similar to the prescribed manner in the Act, unless the City Administrator or designee finds such tie-down devices are inadequate to anchor or secure a Mobile Home to the ground.

It will be unlawful on and after July 1, 2015, to operate a Mobile Home Park that is not in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 18 of the Code that apply to Mobile Home Parks, EXCEPT the City Administrator has authority to extend the deadline past July 1, 2015, if the City Administrator determines that good faith progress is being made to comply with the provisions of this Chapter 18 of the Code. The deadline extension can apply to one or more provisions of this Chapter 18. Extensions will not apply unless specifically granted by the City Administrator.

Manufactured/Mobile Homes, Mobile Homes and Recreational Vehicles will at all times be maintained and operated in a manner that complies with applicable state laws and regulations and the ordinances and Code of the City.

Roadways within Parks and Campgrounds will be marked and identified in compliance with City requirements. Each Space within a Park or Campground will be marked and identified in compliance with City requirements. The marking and identification will be provided as part of the application for a license under Section 18-107. Existing Mobile Home Parks must be in compliance with requirements of this Section 18-120 within sixty (60) days of the Effective Date of this Ordinance.

Appeals from the interpretation or application of the provisions of this chapter by the City Administrator may be made to the City Council.

Any person violating any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and will be punished by fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and/or imprisonment of not more than six (6) months.

If any section or provision of this chapter is for any reason held illegal, invalid or unconstitutional, such action shall not affect the remaining provisions of this chapter, which shall remain valid to the extent possible.