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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 44-Or- ft AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND 4 OF AN ORDINANCE ENACTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEADIVI ONT ON THE 25TH DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1944, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF AUTOMOBILE TRAILER CAMPS; DEFIN- ING CERTAIN WORDS AMID PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION; PROHIBITING THE USE OF AUTOMOBILE TRAILERS FOR SLEEPING OR LIVING QUARTERS OUTSIDE OF AUTOMOBILE TRAILER CAMPS; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; PROVIDING RULES AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SANITATION; REGU- LATING WATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; PRESCRIBING -RULES FOR. OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMPS; MAKING EXISTING ORDINANCES APPLICABLE; PRO- VIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF LICENSE AND APPEAL THERE- FROM; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; MAKING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERETO INAPPLICABLE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS OR- DINANCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY"; PROVIDING DEFINITIONS;.PRO- VIDING THAT TRAILER CAMP LICENSES SHALL BE TRANSFERABLE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: Section 1 Section 1 of the aforesaid Trailer Camp Ordinance of the City of Beaumont enacted by the City Commission of the City of Beaumont on January 25, 1944, is hereby amended to read as fol- lows: DEFINITIONS: (A) "Automobile Trailer" shall be defined as any vehicle used as sleeping or living quarters and propelled either by its own power or by another power driven vehicle to which it may be attached and mounted on wheels or from which its wheels designed for the transportation of such vehicle from one location to another, have been removed, excepting howevera device or vehicle used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (B) An "Automobile Trailer Carp" shall be any area own- ed or operated by any person, firm or corporation for the purpose of location thereon of any automobile trailer used as defined in paragraph (A) above. (C) A "Unit" shall be any section, plot or parcel of land of not less than six hundred (600) sq. ft. of unoccupied space in an area designed as the -location and allotted for the parking of an automobile -trailer; and --which said unit shal-1 be not less than twenty-five (25) feet in width. (D) The word "person" shall be construed to include per- sons, partnership, firm, company, - corporation, tenant, owner, lessee, or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns.. (E) The word "city" as used in this ordinance shall mean the City of Beaumont, Texas. t� _oL q--)) ` Jgcl-4 Section 2 Section 4 of the aforesaid _Frailer Canp Ordinance of the City of Beaumont enacted by the City Commission of the City of Beaumont on January 25, 1944; is hereby amended to read as fol- lows: LICENSE FOR AUTOIAOBIlE TRAILER CAMP; APPLICATION THEREFOR_ AND IS- SUANCE THEREOF. (A) It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, maintain or permit to -be established, operated or, maintained upon any property owned or controlled by him an auto- mobile ' trailer camp, within the limits of the City of Beaumont without having first secured a license therefor from the City Tax Collector, granted and existing in compliance with the terms of this Ordinance. Such license shall expire one year from the date of issuance, but may be renewed under the provisions of this Ordinance for additional periods of one year. The license fee for said license -shall be -payable on an annual basis as here- inaf ter provided. Such license for said premises'shall be trans- ferable upon written application to the City Tax Collector upon payment to said City Tax Collector of a.transfer fee in the amount of Ten Cents (10�) per unit in said trailer camp. The said license shall never be applicable to any trailer camp premises other than that for which said license was issued. (B) The application for such license or the renewal thereof shall be filed with the City Tax' Collector and shall be accompanied by a fee of Two Dollars ($2.00) for each unit in the existing or proposed automobile trailer camp. The applica- tion for a -license or a renewal thereof shall be made oh --printed forms furnished -by the City TaxCollector and shall include the name and address of the applicant, the name and address of the owner in fee of - the tract if other than the applicant, and such legal description of the premises, upon which the automobile trailer camp is or will be located as will identify and locate the premises. The application shall be accompanied by four copies of the camp plan showing the following, either existing or as proposed (1) The extent and area used or to be used for camp purposes; (2) Roadways and driveways; (3) Location of units for automobile trailers; (4) Location and -number of sani- tary conveniences, including toilets, washrooms, laundries and utility rooms to be used by occupants of units; (5) Method and plan of sewage disposal; (6) Method and plan of garbage remov- al; (7) Plan for water supply; (8) Plan for electrical lighting of units and cabins. (C) Before such license may be issued or renewed the camp plan must be examined and approved by the Building Inspect- or, Fire Marshal, Plumbing Inspector, Electrical Inspector and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare or their duly authorized representatives, as complying with all the provisions of this -Ordinance. - - (D) Licenses issued convey no right to erect any' or to do any electrical work. under the terms of this Ordinance building, to do any plumbing work (E) All automobile .trailer camps, now existing or laid out within the City of Beaumont shall conform to or be made to conform to the requirements of this Ordinance and certificate of occupancy secured as provided in Section 10 hereof within 90 days after the enactment of this Ordinance, except that a li- cense for same as provided herein shall be obtained within ten (10) days after the effective date of this Ordinance. Section 3 No offense committed and no liability, penalty or for- feiture, either civil or criminal, incurred prior to the time when Section 1 and Section 4 of the aforesaid Trailer Camp Ordi- nance of the City of Beamont enacted by the City Commission of the City of Beaumont on January 25, A. D. 1944, shall be amend- ed by the enactment of this Ordinance, shall be discharged or affected by such amendment, but prosecutions and suits for such offenses, liabilities, penalties or forfeitures shall be insti- tuted and proceeded with in all respects as if Section 1 and Section 4 of said Ordinance of the City of Beaumont had not been amended. Section 4 If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or un- constitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such sec- tion, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion shall be deemed a separate,, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof and the City Commission hereby declares that it would have enacted such remaining portion or portions despite such in- validity. PASSED by the City Commission this ZZ day of A. D. 1944, - M A Y O R - - 3- AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR -THE REGULATION OF AUTOMOBILE TRAILER CAMPS; DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR - ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ANDINSPECTION; PROHIBIT- ING THE USE OF AUTOMOBILE TRAILERS FOR SLEEPING OR LIVING QUARTERS OUTSIDE OF AUTOMOBILE. TRAILER CAMPS; REQUIRING A ` LICENSE AND PRESCRIBING A FEE:; PROVIDING RULES AND SPECIFICA- TIONS .FOR LOCATION; CONSTRUCTION,, AND -SANITATION; REGULATING WATER SUPPLY AND.WATER AND GARBAEE DISPOSAL;.AEQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; PRESCRIBING RULES FOR OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMPS; MAKING EXISTING ORDINANCES APPLICABLE; PROVIDING FOR. REVO- CATION AND SUSPENSION OF LICENSE .AND APPEAL THEREFROM; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; MAKING ALE: ORDINANCES OR PARTS 0j� ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT -OR CONTRARY HERE'T'O INAPPLICABLE TO THE'SUBJECT MATTE OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND DECLAR- ING AN EMERGENCY IN THAT.- - PREAMBLE. WHEREAS, THE ORDINANCES HERETOFORE PASSED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT ATTEMPTING TO REGULATE AUTOMOBILE TRAILER CAMPS, AS WELL AS, THE. SANITATION 'OF SUCH CAMPS, HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN DECLARED VOID ANDUNENFORCJIBLL BY ONE .OF THE DISTRICT COURTS -OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS, WITH THE RESULT THAT THE EXISTING ORDINANCES OF THE CITY 'OF BEAUMONT DO NOT AFFORD. AN ADEQUATE AND COMPREHENSIVE REGULATION OF THE SANITARY .CONDITIONS OF THE. AUTOMOBILE. TRAILER CAMPS. IN THE CITY OF BiAUllIONT; and, WHEREAS, THERE,. EXISTS AN INCREASING NECE,901TY-Porgy - - SUCH REGULAT IONS DUE TO THE R .PID GROWTH --OF THE -. P OPU LAT I ON OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT AND THE GREAT INCREASE IN THE. NUlaER OF_ AUTOMOBILE TRAILER CAMPS LOCATED WITHIN -THE CITY _.OF--BEAUMONT, DUE TO THE FACT THAT SUCH CAMPSrAS=OPERATED DO,NOT HAVE ADEQUATE SENERAGE FACILITIES,.. BATHTN�U_TACILIT IES, AND SANITARY PRACTICES, AND IN- SOME- INSTANCES SURFACE WATERS . ARE PERMITTED TO STAND. LN TKY AREA SNHERE SUCH CAMPS -ARE MAIN TAI NED, BRINGING ABOUT AN UNHEAIJTHY AIM UNSANITARY CONDITION AND ENDANGERING THE HEATITH` OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY GENERALLY, CREATES AN EMERGENCY AND. IMPERATIVE'NECESSITY FOR THE IMMEDIATE PRESERVATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH,PEACE, PROPERTY, SAFETY AND WELFARE, WHICH REQUIRES THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULE REQUIRING. THAT. ORDINANCES BE READ ON THREE SEVERAL DAYS BEFORE THEIR.PASSAGE,THAT SAID RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHOULD BECOME EFFECTIVE FROM AND AFTER I -TS PASSAGE:, THEREFORE, rr' BE: IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CONMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: DEFINITIONS: SECTION 1 (A) "Automobile Trailers' shall be defined as any vehicle used as sleeping or living quarters and propelled either by its own power or by another power driven vehicle to which it may be attached and mounted on wheels•or from which its wheels de- signed for the transportation of such vehicle from one location to another, have been removed, excepting however a device or vehicle used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (B) An "Automobile Trailer Camp" shall be any area owned or operated by any person, firm or ,corporation for the purpose of location thereon of any automobile trailer used as defined in paragraph (A) above. (C) A "Unita shall be any section, plot or parcel of land of not less than six hundred (600) sq. ft. of unoccupied space in an area designed as the location and allo'l�ed for the par- king of an automobile trailer, and which said unit shall be not less than twenty-five ( 25) feet in width. SECTION 2 ENFORCEMENT: It is hereby made the duty of the building, plumb- ing and electrical inspectors, Fire Marshal, Chief of Police and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare to enforce all pro- visions of this ordinance as prescribed herein and for the purpose of securing such enforcement the building, plumbing and electrical inspectors, Fire Marshal,, Chief of Police and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, or their duly authorized representa- tives, shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon premises of any automobile trailer camp or to enter any automobile trailer located thereon and inspect the same and all accommodations connected therewith. #2- ..q'P'rl.'P T OI\T ?, RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO AUTOMOBILE TRAILERS: (A) No person, firm or corporation shall place or keep or maintain any automobile trailer used as sleeping or living quarters upon any lot or parcel of land within the City of Beaumont for a period exceeding forty eight (48) hours in any one year except in a licensed automobile trailer camp . (B) No automobile trailer shall be used for sleeping or living quarters upon any street, alley or any public wa�) in the City of Beaumont. (C) No person, firm or corporation shall deposit garbage or waste water from any automobile, trailer on the pre - wises where the automobile trailer is stationed or on adjoining ground except that garbage shall be placed in a metal container equipped with fly -tight and water -tight cover. for collection by City Garbage Department. SECTION 4 LICENSE FOR AUTOMOBILE TRAILER CAMP; APPLICATION THEREFOR AND ISSUANCE THEREOF. (A) It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, maintain or permit to be established, operated or maintained upon any property owned or controlled by him an automobile trailer camp, within the limits of the City of Beaumont without having first secured a license therefor from the City Tax Collector, granted and existing in compliance with the terms of this Ordinance. Such license shall expire one year from the date of issuance, but 'mal be renewed under the provisions of this Ordinance for additional periods of one year. Such license shall be non -transferable and the fee therefor shall be payable in advance on an annual basis as hereinafter provided. #3 - (B) The application for such license or the re- newal thereof shall be filed with the City Tax Collector and shall be accompanied by a fee of Two ($2.00) Dollars for each unit in the existing or proposed aut omobi le trailer camp. The application for a license or a renewal thereof shall be made on printed forms furnished by the City Tax Collector and shall include the name and address of the applicant, the name and address of the owner in fee of the tract if other than the applicant., and such legal description of the premises, upon which the automobile trailer camp is or will be located as will identify and locate the premises. The application shall be accompanied by four copies of the camp plan showing the following, either existing or as proposed: (1) The extent and area used or to be used for camp purposes; (2) Road- ways and driveways; (3) Location of units for automobile trailers; (4) Location and number of sanitary conveniences, including toilets, washrooms, laundries and utility rooms to be used by occupants of units; (5) Method and plan of sewage disposal; (6) Method and plan of garbage removal; (7) Plan for water supply; (8) Plan for electrical lighting of units and cabins. (C) Before such license may be issued or renewed the camp plan must be examined and approved by the Building Inspector, Fire Marshal, Plumbing Inspector, Electrical Inspector and the Dir- ector of the Department of Public Welfare or their duly authorized representatives, as complying with all the provisions of this Ordin- an ce . (D) Licenses issued under the terms of this Ordin- ance convey no right to erect any building, to do any plumbing work or to do any electrical work. (E) All automobile trailer camps, now existing or laid out within the City of Beaumont shall conform to or be made to conform to the requirements of this Ordinance and certificate of occupancy secured as provided in Section 10 hereof within 90 days after the enactment of this Ordinance, except that a license for same as provided herein shall be obtained within ten (10) days after the effective date of this Ordinance. #4 LO CATION; SECTION 5 (A) No automobile trailer camp shall be located within the limits of the City of Beaumont unless City water and City sanitary sewer connections are available. (B) No,occupied automobile trailer shall be lo - Gated within less than ten feet (10 1 ) from .any other automobile trailer or other building or within five feet (51) of the boun- dary line of the tract on which located. CAMP PLAN; c'G'rmTnN R (A) Every automobile trailer camp shall be located on an area free from standing surface waters, and no grass or weeds shall be permitted to grow in excess of twelve inches (1211) in heiglit. (B) Units shall be designated by markers at each corner and the automobile trailer camp so arranged that all units shall face or abut on a driveway or not less than sixteen(161) feet in width, giving access from all units to a public street or high- way. Such driveway shall be paved, graveled or shelled and lighted at night and shall not be obstructed. (C) The camp shall be so laid out that no unit shall be located further than 225 feet from the toilets and service buildings provided for herein, and walkways to such buildings shall be paved, graveled or shelled and lighted at night. (D) Every unit shall be furnished with an electric service outlet. Such outlet shall be equipped with an externally operated switch or fuse of not more than 30 amperes capacity. (E) Hotels, lodging houses or administrative build - Ings, when a part of an automobile trailer camp shall conform to the requirements of the City Building Code relating to respective occupancy. �- SECTION '7 SERVICE BUIID�NGS AND ACCOMMODATIONS: (A) Every automobile trailer camp shall have erect- ed thereon at a distance not greater than 225 feet from any unit it is designated to serve-, a building for housing toilets, showers and laundry facilities as required by this.ordinance, such building, to be known as the Service Building (B) The Service Building shall be roofed and shall be lighted at all times of day or night, and heating facilities made available capable of maintaining the temperature of at least 800 Fahrenheit; and said Service Building shall be ventilated by screen openings of mesh not less than 16 per inch, and each toilet room floor shall be sloped to drain it and the angle formed by the floor and side walls shall be water tight. (C) There shall be provided in such Service Building separate toilet rooms for each sex. Flush toilets provided with water supply shall be inclosed in separate compartments and shall be provided for each sex on the ratio of one toilet for each six- teen units. Each automobile trailer camp having in excess of twelve units shall have at least one urinal. Toilet rooms shall contain lavatories with hot and cold water on the ratio of one lavatory to every twenty-four units. (D) Separate bathing facilities shall be provided for each sex on the ratio of one shower or bathtub enclosed in a compart- ment of at least twelve (12) square feet for each sixteen units. (E) One slop sink and one laundry tray with water supply and one ironing board shall be provided to serve each ten units. (F) A supply of hot and cold water shall be provided at all times for bathing, washing and laundry facilities. (G) The above accommodations shall be based on the total automobile trailer camp capacity according to accepted plans; provided that units individually equipped with such accommodations shall not be included in determining such automobile trailer camp capacity. 9 Y-3 #6 - SECTION 8 WATER SUPPLY; (A) Each automobile trailer camp shall be supplied with water from the City of Beaumont water mains. The water supply faucets shall be located not more than 225 feet from any unit'. (B) No common drinking vessels shall be permitted, shallany drinking water faucets be placed in any toilet room or water closet compartment. SECTION 9 WASTE AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; (A) All waste from showers, baths, toilets, laundries, faucets and lavatories and any other waste water shall be wasted into the City sewer system. In -no case shall any waste water be thrown or discharged upon the surface of the ground or disposed of by means other than as herein provided. (B) All sanitary facilities in any automobile trailer camp which are not connected with the City sewer system by means of water tight hose or pipe connections shall be sealed and their use is hereby declared unlawful. (C) Each unit shall be provided with fly tight and water tight metal garbage depository and waste paper container from which the contents shall be removed by the City garbage collection service. The camp operator and each occupant of a unit shall cause to be placed or place the garbage depositories and waste paper con- tainers on the curb of the street on the regular garbage collection days. SECTION 10 CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; No automobile trailer camp shall be occupied in any part thereof except as provided in Section 4 (E) herein unless or until a certificate of occupancy for the automobile trailer camp has been issued by the Building Inspector. The Building Inspector shall, y3 - #7 - after after a license has been issued or renewed as herein provided, issue a certificate of occupancy approved by the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, Fire Marshal, Plumbing Inspector, and Electrical Inspector, if after inspections of the premises it is found that same complies with the provisions of this Ordinance. MANAGEMENT: SECTION 11 (A) In every automobile trailer camp there shall be an office of the person in charge of said camp. The camp license, certificate of occupancy and a copy of this Ordinance shall be posted therein and copies of all records pertaining to the manage- ment and supervision of the premises shall be kept therein along with the camp r egister,,and such records and register shall al- ways be available for inspection by any employee of the Police Department of the City of Beaumont, State, County and Federal law enforcement agents and other agents of the City of Beaumont authoriz-o ed to inspect the premises. (B) It is hereby made the duty of the attendant or person in charge, together with the licensee, to; (1) Keep at all times a register of all $�ests showing for all guests; (a) Names and permanent addresses. (b) Dates and -hours of entrance and departure. (c) License number of all automobile trailers and towing or other automobiles. (d) States issuing such licenses. (2) Maintain the camp in a clean, orderly and sanitary condition at all times as provided herein. (3) See that the provisions of this Ordin- ance are complied with and enforced and report promptly to the proper authorities any violations of this Ordinance or any other violations of law which may come to his attention. 4�-�1-l9y4- (4) Report to the City Health Officer all cases of persons or animals affected or suspected of being- affected with any communicable dis- ease. (5) Prevent the running loose of dogs, cats, or other animals or pets, and maintenance of chickens or other fowls or live stock on units. (6) Maintain hand fire extinguishers in the ratio of one to each eight units. (7) Prohibit the lighting of open fires on the premises. 3 (8) Prohibit the use of any automobile trailer by a greater number of occupants than that which it is designed to accommodate. SECTION 12 APPLICABILITY OF PLUMBING ELECTRICAL AND BUILDING ORDINANCES: All plumbing, electrical, building and other work on or at any automobile trailer camp licensed under this Ordinance shall be in accordance with the ordinances of the City of Beaumont regulating such work unless said ordinances are made inapplicable under the terms of this Ordinance. SECTION 13 REVOCATION AND SUSPENSUN: The Building Inspector, the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, the Fire Marshal, the Plumbing Inspector, and the , Electrical Inspector and their duly authorized agents are each hereby authorized to revoke any license issued pursuant to the terms of this Ordinance upon violation and conviction for such violation of any provisions of this Ordinance. SE Cf I ON 14 HEARING ON GREINTINU, DENIAL, RENE6TAL, OR REVOCATION OF LICENSE: Any person aggrieved by an order granting, denying, renew- ing or revoking license for an automobile trailer camp, under this Ordinance may file with the City Clerk a written request for a hearing before the City Commission within five days after issuance of such order. The said Commission shall give notice of a public hearing upon this request to be held in not less than ten days after service of the notice on the person requesting the hearing. The City Commission may also give notice of the hearing to other persons directly interested in the order in question. At such hearing the City Com fission shall determine whether the granting, denial, renewal or revocation of the license was in �/- accordance with the provisions of this.Ordinance and shall issue an order to carry out its findings. SECTION 15 WilIVI T!P V . Any person found guilty of violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and sub- ject to a fine not to exceed One Hundred (100.00) Dollars, and each day such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense and be punishable as such hereunder. SECTION 16 SEPAARF,BILITY; If any section, subsection, sent@nce, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or un- constitutional by any court of competent jurisd1otion, such section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions the re of . SE CT I ON 17 REPEAL: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with or contrary hereto are hereby made inapplicable insofar as they may affect this Ordinance or the subject matter herein, but such ordinance or parts of ordinances shall remain in full force and effect otherwise. SE CT I ON 18 EMERGE,NCY CUUSE: The fact that the existing ordinances of the City of Beaumont do not afford. an adequate and comprehensive regulation of the sanitary conditions of the automobile trailer camps, and the further fact that there exists an increasing necessity for such regulations due to the rapid growth of the population of the City of Beaumont and the great increase in the number of automobile trailer camps located within the City of Beaumont, creates an emergency and imperative necessity for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare as set out and found by the Commission in the preamble hereto, which requires the suspension of the rule requiring that ordinances be read on three several days before their passage, wherefore, said rule is hereby suspended and this Ordinance shall become effective from and after its passage. P.,SSED by the affirmative vote of all members of the 'd— City Commission this 9 .5 A. D. 1944. _ day of , IN AIN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF TOURIST CAMPS; DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION_ ; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND PRESCRIBING A _FEE; PROVIDING RU ES AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR LOCATION; CONSTRUCTION AND SANITATION; REGULATING TATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; PRESCRIBING RULES FOR OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMPS; MAKING EXISTING ORDINANCES APPLICABLE; PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF LICENSES AND. APPEAL THERE- FROM; PRESCRIBING PENATTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; MAKING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERETO INAPPLICABLE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, IN T HAT : PREAMBLE WHEREAS, THE ORDINANCES HERETOFORE PASSED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT ATTEMPTING TO REGUL TOURIST CAMPS, AS 11VELL AS THE SANTITATION OF SUCH CAMPS, HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN DECLARED VOID AND UNENFORCABLE. BY ONE OF THE DISTRICT ' COURTS OF JEFFER- SON COUNTY, TEXAS, WITH THE RESULT THAT THE EXISTING ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT DO NOT AFFORD AN ADEQUATE AND COMPRE- HENSIVE REGULATION OF THE SANITARY CONDITIONS OF THE TOURIST CAMPS IN THE. CITY OF BEAUMONT, AND WEEREAS, THERE EXISTS AN INCREASING NECESSITY FOR SUCH REGULATIONS DUE TO THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE POPULATION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT AND THE GREAT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF TOURIST CAMPS LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, DUE TO THE FACT THAT SUCH CAMPS AS OVERATED DO NOT HAVE ADEQUATE SE f%E FACILITIES, BATHING FACILIT IES, AND SANITARY PRACTICES, D IN SOME -INSTANCES SURFACE WATERS ARE PERMITTED TO STAND IN THE AREA VIVHERE SUCH CAMPS ARE MAIN- TAINED, BRINGING ABOUT AIN UNHEALTHY AND UNSANITARY CONDITION AND ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF THE. PEOPLE IN THE CITY GENERALLY,' CREATES AN EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY FOR THE IMMEDIATE PRESERVATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH, PEACE, PROPERTY,. SAFETY AND WELFARE, WHICH REQUIRES_THE SUSPENSION OF THE, RULE REQUIRING THAT ORDINANCES BE READ ON THREE SEVERAL DAYS BEFORE THEIR PASSAGE, THAT SAID RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS. ORDINANCE SHOULD BECOME EFFECTIVE FROM AND AFTER. ITS PASSAGE; THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: 1 19 vV_ SECTION 1 DEFINITIONS: u �� r�1fy (A) A "tourist camp" means any park, tourist park, tourist court, camp, court, site, lot., -parcel or tract of land upon which one or more camp cottages or cabins are located and maintained for the accommodation of transients by the day, week, or month, whether a charge is made or. not. (B) A "cabin plot unit" means a section of ground not less than 1,000 square feet in area, upon which only one cainp-. cottage or cabin is located. c'G'rm Tn-nT 0 ERF ORCEPZEN T : It is hereby made the duty of the building., plumbing and electrical inspectors, Fire Marshal, Chief of Police and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare to enforce ail provisions of this ordinance as prescribed herein and for the purpose of securing such enforcement the building, plumbing and electrical inspectors, Fire Marshal, Chief of Police and the Director of :the Department of Public Welfare, or their duly authorized representative, shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon premises of any tourist camp, or to enter any camp cottage or cabin located thereon and inspect the same and all accommodations connected therewith. SECTION 3 RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO TOURIST CAMPS: No person,firm, or corporation shall deposit garbage or waste water from any camp cottage or cabin on the premises where the camp cottage or cabin is located, or on adjoining ground, except that garbage shall be placed in a metal container equiped with fly tight and water tight cover for collection by City Garbage Department. �1 19 1-3 . #2- - rci�� SECTION 4 LICENSE FOR TOURIST CAMP; APPLICATION THEREFOR AND ISSU&NCE THEREOF: (M It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, maintain or permit to be established, operated or main - twined upon any property owned or controlled by him a tourist camp, within the limits of the City of Beaumont without having first secured a license therefor from the City Tax Collector, granted and existing in compliance with the terms of this Ordinance. Such license shall expire one year from the date of issuance, but may be renewed under the provisions of this Ordinance for add- itional periods of one year. Such license shall be nontrans- ferable and the fee therefor shall be payable on an annual basis as hereinafter provided. (B) The application for such license or the renewal thereof shall be filed with the City lax Collector and shall be accompanied by a fee of Two 02.00) Dollars for each unit in the existing or proposed tourist camp. The application for a license or a menewal thereof shall be made on printed forms furnished by the City Tax Collector and shall include the name and address of the applicant, the name and address of the owner in fee of the tract if other than the applicant, and such legal des- cription of the premises, upon which the tourist camp is or will be located as will identify and locate the premises. The application shall be accompanied by four copies of the camp plan showing the following, either existing or as proposed: (1) The extent and area used or to be .used ,for camp purposes; (2) roadways and driveways; (3) Location 'of units for camp cottages or cabins; (4) Location and number of sanitary conveniences, including toilets, washrooms, laundries and utility rooms to be used by occupants of units; (5) method and plan of sew/ge disposal; (6) method and plan of garbage removal; (7) plan for water supply; (8) Plan for' electrical light- ing of units and cabins. (C) Before such license may be issued or renewed the camp plan must be examined and approved by the Building Inspector, Fire Marshal, Plumbing Inspector, Electrical Inspector and the b 1/3 I I I --I #3- Director of the Department of Public Welfare or their duly authorized representatives, as complying with all the pro- visions of this Ordinance. (D) Licenses issued under the terms of this Ordinance convey no right to erect any building, to do any plumbing work or to do any electrical work. (E) All tourist camps, now existing or laid out within the City of Beaumont shall conform to or be made to conform to the requirements of this Ordinance and .certificate of occupancy secured as provided in Sectioal 10 hereof within 90 days after the enactment of this Ordinance, except that a license for same as provided herein shall be obtained within ten (10) days after the effective date of this Ordinance. Q714 rm T r) NT F LOCATION; (A) No tourist camp shall be located within the limits of the City of Beaumont unless City water and City sanitary sewer connections are available. (B) No occupied camp cottage or cabin shall be located within less than ten (10) feet from any other camp cottage or cabin or other building or within five (5) feet of the boundary line of the tract on which located; provided, that two or more camp cottages or cabins may be constructed adjoining each other as one building and there may be attached to each such camp cottage or cabin building a structure for providing cover for one vehicle; provided further that such two or more adjoining camp cottages or cabins sl -a 11 be constructed so as to utilize the area of one cabin plot unit for each camp cottage or cabin located thereon. SECTION 6 CAMP PLAN (A) Every tourist camp shall be located on an area free from standing surface water, and no grass or weeds shall be permitted to grow in excess of twelve inches in height. (B) Units shall be designated by markers at each corner and the tourist camp so arranged .that all units shall face or abut on a driveway of not less than s-iz_teal (16) feet in width, giving access from all units to a public street or highway. Such driveway shall be paved, graveled or shelled and lighted at night and shall not be obstructed. 94 - (C) The camp shall be so laid out that no unit shall be located farther than 225 feet from the toilets and service build- ings provided for herein, and walkways to such buildings shall be paved, graveled . cr shelled and lighted at night. (D) Every unit shall be furnished with an electric service outlet. Such outlet shall be equipped with an externally operated switch or fuse of not more than 30 amperes capacity. (E) Hotels, lodging houses or administrative buildings, when a part of a tourist camp, shall conform to the requirements of the City Building Code relating to respective occupancy. (F) There shall be not less than 30 square feet of floor area for each occupant- of a camp cottage or cabin, but no camp cot- tage or cabin shall contain less than 120 square feet of floor area. (G) Every camp cottage dr cabin shall have at least two windows located on separate walls, preferably opposite. The total window area shall be at least six square feet per person when open for ventilation. No cabin shall contain less than 18 square feet of window area. All windows, doors and other openings in cabins shall be fully screened with screen wire which shall not be less than 16 mesh per inch. Every cabin shall be at least eight feet from floor to ceiling. e'Prm Tn1T T7 SERVICE BUILDINGS AND ACCOMMODATIONS: (A) Every tourist camp shall have erected thereon at a dis- tance not greater than 225 feet from any unit it is designated to serve, a building for housing toilets, showers and laundry facilities as re= quired by this Ordinance, such building°_ to be known as the Service Buildings. (B) The Service Building shall be roofed and shall be lighted at all times of day or night, and heating facilities made available capable of maintaining .the temperature of at least 80° Fahrenheit; and said Service Building shall be ventilated by screen openings of mesh not less than 16 per inch, and each toilet room floor shall be sloped to drain it and the angle formed by the floor and side walls shall be water tight. (C) There shall be provided in such Service Building separate toilet rooms for each sex. Flush toilets provided with water supply shall be enclosed in separate compartments and shall be provided for each sex on the ratio of one toilet for each sixteen units. Each tourist camp having in excess of twelve units shall have at least one urinal. Toilet rooms shall contain lavatories with hot and cold water on the ratio of one lavatory to every twenty-four units. (D) Separate bathing facilities shall be provided for each sex on the ratio of one shower or bathtub enclosed in a compartment of at least twelve (12) square feet for eachsixt&efj units. #5- (E) One slop sink and one lauft-dry tray with water �. 19 J�2S_-1cc�.y_ supply and one ironing board shall be.provided to serve each ten units. (F) A supply of hot and cold water shall be provided at all times for bathing, washing and laundry facilities. (G) The above accommodations shall be based on the total tourist camp capacity according to accepted plans; provided that units individually equipped with such accommodations shall not be included in determir�g such tourist camp capacity. SECTION 8 WATER SUPPLY: (A) Each tourist camp shall be supplied with water from the City of Beaumont water mains.. The water supply faucets shall be located not more than 225 feet from any unit. (B) No common drinking vessels shall be permitted, nor shall any drinking water faucets be placed in any toilet -room or water closet compartment. WASTE AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL: (A) All waste from showers, baths, toilets, laundries, faucets and lavatories and any other waste water shall be wasted into the City sewer system. In no wase shall any waste water be thrown or discharged itpon the surface of the ground or disposed of by means other than as herein provided. (B) All sanitary facilities in any totiriist._damp which are not connected vi th the City sewer system by means of water tight hose or pipe connections shall be sealed and their use is hereby declared unlawful. (C) Each unit shall be provided with fly tight and water tight metal garbage depository and waste paper container from which the contents shall be removed by the City garbage collection service. The camp operator and each occupant of a unit shall cause to be placed or place the garbage depositories and waste paper containers on the curb of the street on the regular garbage collection days. #6 - SECTION 10 CERT IFI CATE OF OCCUPANCY: No tourist camp shall be occupied in any part thereof except as provided in Section 4 (E) herein unless or until a certificate of occupancy for the tourist camp has been issued by the Building Inspector. The_ Building Inspector shall, after a license has been issued or renewed as herein provided, issue a certificate of occupancy approved by the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, Fire iYlarshal, Plumbing Inspector, and Electric Inspector, if after inspections of the premises it is found that same complies with the provisions of this Ordinance. SECTION 11 MANAGEMENT .- (A) (A) In every tourist camp there shall be an office of the person in charge of said camp. The camp license, certificate of occupancy and a copy of this Ordinance shall be posted therein and copies of all records pertaining to the management and super- vision of the premises shall be kept therein along with the camp register, and sash records and register shall always be avail- able for inspection by any employee of the Police Department of the City of Beaumont, State, County and Federal law enforcement agents and other agents of the• City of Beaumont authorized to inspect the premises. (B) It is hereby made the duty of. the attendant or person in charge, together with the licensee to: (1) Keep at all times a register of all guests showing for all guests: (a) Names and permanent addresses. (b) Dates and hours of entrance and departure. (c) License number of all automobile traders and towing or other automobiles. (d) States issuing such licenses. (2) Maintain the camp in a clean, orderly and sanitary condition at all times as provided herein. (3) See that the provisions of this Ordinance are complied with and enforced and report promptly to the proper authorities any violations of this Ordinance or any other violations of law vL i ch may come to his attention. #7- (4) Report to the City heal th Officer all cases of persons or animals affected or suspected of being affected with any communicable disease. (5) Prevent the running loose of dogs, cats, or other animals or pets, and maintenance. of chickens or other fowls or live stock on units. (6) Maintain hand fire extinguishers in the ratio of one to each eight units. (7) Prohibit the lighting of open fires on the premises. (8) Prohibit the use of any camp cottage or cabin by a greater number of occupants than that which it is designed to' accommodate. SECTION 12. APPLICABILITY OF PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL AND BUILDING ORDINANCES: All plumbing,`electtical, building and other work on or at any tourist camp licensed under this Ordinance shall be in accordance with the ordinances of the City of Beauiaont regulating such work unless said ordinances are made inapplicable under the terms of this Ordinance. SECTION 13 REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION: The Building Inspector, the Director of the Department of Public Welfare,.the Fire Marshal, the Plumbing.Inspector, and the Electrical Inspector and their duly authcr ized agents are each hereby authorized to revoke any license issued pursuant to the. terms of this Ordinance upon violation and conviction for such violation of any provision_ of this Ordinance. SECTION 14 HEARING ON GRANTING, DENIAL, RENEWAL, OR REVOCATION OF LICENSE: Any person aggrieved by an order granting, denying, renew- ing or revoking license for a tourist camp, under this Ordinance may file with the City Clerk a written request for a hearing before the City Commission within five days after issuance of such order. The said Commission shall give notice of a public hearing upon this request to be held in not less than ten days after service of the notice on the person requesting the hearing. The City Commission may also give notice of the hearing to other persons directly interested in the order in question. At such hearing the City �8- Commission shall determine whether the granting, denial, renewal or revocation of the license was in accordance with the pro- visions of this Ordinance and shall issue an order to carry out its findings. PENALTY SECTION 15 Any person found guilty of violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and sub- ject to a fine not to exceed One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, and each day such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense and be punishable as such hereunder. SECTION 16 If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held invalid or un- constitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. REPEAL: SECTION 17 All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with or. contrary hereto are hereby made inapplicable insofar as they may affect this Ordinance or the subject matter herein, but such ordinances or parts of ordinances shall remain in full force and effect otherwise. SECTION 18 EMERGENCY CLAUSE: The fact that the existing ordinances of the City of Beaumont do not afford an adequate and comprehensive regulation of the sanitary conditions of the tourist camps, and the further fact that there exists an increasing necessity for such regulations due to the rapid growth of the population of the City of Beaumont and the great increase in the number 'of tourists comps located within the City of Beaumont, creates an emergency and imperative #9 - necessity for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare as set out and found by the Commission in the Preamble hereto, which requires the suspension of the rule requiring that ordinances be read on three several days before their passage, wherefore, said 'rule is hereby suspended and this Ordinance shall become effective from and after its passage. PASSED by the affirmative vote of all members of the City Commission this a day of ,, , A. D. 1944"1.-1 .- . f ~ -U i; i ry 61 q-3 AN ORDINANCE IL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND 4 OF AN OR- rQ DINANCE ENACTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT ON THE 25th DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1944, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE PROVID- ING FOR THE REGUTA TION OF TOURIST CA4PS; DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCM11ENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION; RERUIR- ING A LICENSE AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; PROVIDING RULES AND SPECIFICA- TIONS FOR LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SANITATION; REGULATING MATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OC- CUPANCY; PRESCRIBING RULES FOR OPERATION AND MANAGEKENT OF CAMPS; MAKING EXISTING ORDINANCES APPLICABLE; PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF LICENSES AND APPEAL THEREFROM; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; MAKING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERETO INAPPLICABLE TO THE ,SUBJECT MATTER -OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND DECIARING AN- EKERGENCY" PROVIDING DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING THAT TOURIST CAMP LICENSES SHALL BE TRANSFERABLE AND PROVIDING TRANSFER AND LICENSE FEES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUM OW , .: Section 1r r " Section 1 of the aforesaid Tourist Camp Ordinance of ' the City of Beaumont enacted by the City .Commission of the City of Beau - wont on January 25, A. D. 1944, is hereby amended to read as follows: DEFINITIONS: (A) A "tourist camp" means any park, tourist park, tourist court, camp, court, site, lot, parcel or tract of land upon which one or more camp cottages or cabins are located and maintain- ed for the accommodation of transients by the day, week, or month, whether a charge is made or not. (B) A "cabin plot unit" means a section of ground not less than 1,000 square feet in area, upon which only one camp cot- tage or cabin is located. (C) The word "personf' shall be construed to include per- sons, partnership, firm, -company, corporation, tenant, owner, lessee, or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns. (D) The word "city" as used in this ordinance shall mean the City of Beaumont, Texas. Section 2 Section 4 of the aforesaid Tourist Camp Ordinance of 'th`e City of Beaumont enacted by the City Commission of the City of. -Beau- mont on January 25, A. D. 1944, is hereby amended to read as follows: LICENSE FOR TOURIST CAViP;APPLICATION THEREFOR AND ISSUANCE THEREOF: (A) It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, maintain or permit to be established, operated or maintain- ed upon any property owned or controlled by him a tourist camp, within the limits of the City of Beaumont without having first se -' i A-/ cured a license therefor from the City -Tax -Collector, granted and existing in compliance with the terms of this Ordinance. Such li- cense shall expire one year from the date . of issuance, but may be re- newed under the provision's of this Ordinance for additional periods of one year. The license fee for said license shall be payable on an annual basis as hereinafter provided. Such license for said premises shall be 'transferable upon written application to the City Tax Collector upon payment to -said City Tax Collector of a transfer fee in the . amount of Ten Cents (10�) per unit in said tourist camp. The said license shall never be applicable to any tourist camp pre- mises other than that for which said license was issued. (B) The application for such license or_the renewal thereof shall be filed with the City Tax Collector and shall be ac- - companied by the license fee. Said license fee shall be Two Dol- lars ($2.00) for each unit in the existing or proposed tourist camp for the first year . and -shall be Fifty Cents (50¢x) for each such r unit on renewal for each additional year. The application for a-, license or a renewal thereof shall be made on printed forms furnish- ed by the City Tax'Collector and -shall include the name and address of the applicant, the name and address of the owner in fee of the tract if other than the applicant, and such legal description of the premises, upon which the tourist camp is, or will be located as will identify and locate the premises. The application shall be accom- panied by four copies of the camp. plan showing the, following, either existing or as proposed: (1) The,extent and area used or to be used for camp purposes; (2) roadways and driveways; (3) location of units for camp cottages or -cabins; (4) location and number of sanitary conveniences, including toilets, washrooms laundries and utility rooms to be used by occupants of units; (5�. method and plan of sew- age disposal; (6) method and plan of garbage removal; (7) plan for water supply; (8) plan -for electrical lighting of units and cabins. (C) Before such license may be issued or renewed the camp plan must be examined and approved by -.the Building Inspector, Fire Marshal, Plumbing Inspector, Electrical Inspec.tor and the Dir- ector of the Department of Public Welfare or their duly authorized representatives, -as -complying with all the provisions of this Ordi- nanee. (D) Licenses issued under the terms of this Ordinance convey no right to erect any building, to do any plumbing work or to do any electrical work. (E) An tourist camps, now existing or laid, out within the City of ' Beaumont shall conform to or be made to conform to the re- quirements of this Ordinance and certificate of occupancy secured as provided in Section' 10 hereof within 90 days after the enactment -of this Ordinance, except that a license for same as provided herein shall be obtained within 'ten (10) days after the -effective date of this Ordinance. Sec tion ' 3 No offense committed and no liability, penalty -..or forfeiture, either civil or -criminal,, incurred -prior to the time -when Section 1 and Section 4 of the aforesaid Tourist Camp Ordinance of the City 'of Beaumont enacted by the City Commission of the City of Beaumont on January 25, A. D. 1944, shall be amended by the enactment of this Ordinance, shall be discharged or affected by such amendment, but -2- 421 l l IX ra' prosecutions and suits for such offenses, liabilities, penalties or forfeitures shall be instituted and proceeded with in all re- spects e- specis as if Section 1 and Section 4 of said Ordinance of the City of Beaumont had not been amended. Section 4 If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or uncon- stitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof and the City Commission hereby declares that it would have enacted such re- maining portion or portions despite such invalidity., PASSED by the City Commission thisday of Z-1 ..LL_ A. D. 1944. - M A Y O R r -%Q {-3 • , -,� '' � �' �� 11--19 AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF TRAILER CAMPS, TENT CAMPS AND TOURIST CAMPS OR C OMMBITA TI ONS THEREOF, T OUR IS T TRAILERS, TOURIST TENTS AND TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS; DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION; PROHI- BITING PARKING OF TRAILERS OUTSIDE OF TRAILER OR TENT CAMPS AND MAKING EXCEPTIONS; PROHIBITING PERMANENT OCCUPANCY OF TRAILERS, TENTS, TOUR- IST COTTAGES AND CABINS AND PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS; REQUIRING A PERnMIT AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; RE- QUIRING COMPLIANCE BY EXISTING CAMPS; PROVIDING RULES AVD SPECIFICATIONS FOR LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION -AND SANITATION; REGULATING WATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; LIMIT- ING DURATION OF OCCUPANCY AND NU =R OF OCCUPANTS; PRESCRIBING RULES FOR OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMPS; MAKING EXISTING ORDINANCES AP- PLICABLE; PROVIDING FOR SUSPENSION OF COMPLIANCE DURING NATIONAL ECMER- GENCY UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS; PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF PERMITS AND -LICENSES AND APPEAL THEREFROM; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS;.PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERETO; AND DECLARING AN IRVIERGENCY. f BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: Section 1. (a) An "automobile trailer`°, "trailer coach", -or EBtrail--er" means any vehicle or structure so designed and constructed in such manner as will permit occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters for one or more persons, or the conduct of any business or profession, occu- pation or trade (or use as a selling or advertising device), and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a convey- ance on highways or city streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive power, excepting a device used exclusively upon station- ary rails or tracks. (b) A "trailer camp" means -any park, trailer park, trailer court, court, camp, site, lot, parcel, or tract of land designed, main- tained or intended for the purpose of supplying a location or accommo- dations,for any trailer coach or trailer coaches and upon which any trailer coach or trailer coaches are parked and shall include all build- ings used or intended for use as part of the equipment thereof whether a charge is made for the use of the trailer carrp and its facilities or not. Trailer camp" shall not include automobile or trailer sales lots on which unoccupied trailers are parked for purposes of inspection and sale. (c) A "tourist camp" means any park, tourist park, tourist court, camp, court, site, lot, parcel or tract of land upon which one or more camp cottages or cabins are located and maintained for the ac- commodation of transients by the day, week, or month, whether a charge is made or not. (d) A "tent camp" means any park, court, camp, site, lot, parcel, or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for the pur- - pose of- supplying a location or accommodations for any tent or tents and upon which any tent or tents are located and shall include all buildings used or maintained for use as part of the equipment thereof, whether a charge is made for the use of the tent camp and its facilit- ies or not. (e) A "unit" means a section of ground in a trailer camp or tent camp of not less than 600 square feet of unoccupied space in an area designed as the location for only one automobile and one trailer or one automobile and one tent. Said unit shall be not less than 25 feet in width. (f) A "cabin plot" meansa section of gr ound not less than 1,000 square feet in area, upon which only one camp cottage or cabin is located. (g) The word "person" shall be construed to include persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation, tenant, owner, lessee, or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns. (h) The word "city" as used in this ordinance shall mean the City of Beaumont., Texas. Section 2. ENFORCEMENT. It is hereby made the duty of the Building, Plumbing and Electrical Inspectors, the Fire Marshal, the Chief of Police and the Director of the Department of Public Veelfare to enforce all provisions of this Ordinance as prescribed herein or such provisions as may here- after be enacted, and for the purpose of securing such enforcements the Building, Plumbing and Electrical Inspectors, the Fire Marshal the Chief of Police and the Director of the Department of Public Wel- fare or their duly authorized representatives shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon the premises of any trailer camp; tent camp or tourist camp -and to enter any automobile trailer, tent, camp, cottage or cabin located thereon and inspect the same and all accommodations connected therewith at any reasonable time. Section 3. LOCATION OUTSIDE CAMPS;. PERMITS. (a) It shall be unlawful within the limits of the City of Beaumont for any person to park any trailer on any street, alley or highway or other public place or to park any trailer or place any tent on any tract of land owned by any person occupied or unoccupied within the City of Beaumont except as provided in this Ordinance. (b)-E,nerg-ency--or temporary stopping or parking of trailers is permitted on any street, alley or highway for not longer than two horn, subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations or limitations imposed by,.the traffic and parking regulations or ordinances for that street, alley or highwey. (c.) No person shall park or occupy any trailer, or place or occupy any tent on the premises of any occupied dwelling or on any lot which is not a part of the premises of any occupied dwelling, either of which is situated outside an approved trailer camp or tent camp; except the parking of only one unoccupied trailer in an accessory private gar- age building, or in -a rear yard in any district, is permitted providing no living quarters shall be maintained or any business practiced in said trailer while such trailer is so parked or stored. (d) No person shall park or occupy any trailer, or place or occupy any tent on the premises of any camp licensed hereunder for more than 48 hours unless a permit therefor shall have been first obtained, nor shall any person permit such parking, placing or occupancy until the occupant of such trailer or tent has obtained a permit therefor, subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this Ordinance. (e) The permit hereinabove required shall be obtained by the. trailer coach or tent occupant from the City Tax Collector. Such permit shall be for a period of not more than six (6) months and the fee for same shall be Two and 50/100 ($p2.50) Dollars per month. Successive per- mits may be obtained for like periods and fees subject to Section 12 hereof. (f) Applications for the permits shall contain the name and permanent address of applicant, make, model, license number and occupant capacity of trailer or description of tent,, number of occupants to oc- cupy such, trailer or tent and the nwie and address of the camp where lo- cated or to be located.` Said permit shall be valid in any licensed camp in the City of Beaumont, but on change of location the occupant shall notify the City Tax Collector of such. change. Said permit shall be non- transferable. (g) The permit shall be displayed in a conspicuous manner on each trailer or tent. -2- 6 V-3 11 t / (/4 Section 4 PElUtFiANENT OCCUPANCY. Automobile trailers, tents and tourist cottages or cabins shall not be used as a permanent place of abode or as a permanent dwelling or for indefinite periods of time, provided that any such trailer, cottage or cabin properly connected with the City water sup- ply and sanitary sewer systems and constructed and located in com- pliance with all the requirements of the building,- plumbing, sani- tary, health, zoning and electrical ordinances of the City. of Beau- mont applicable to dwellings or residences and not inhabito by a reater number of occupants than that for which it was designed proof of the latter shall be required by -affidavit) may be permit- ted and permanently occupied on any premises under permits properly secured and complied with as provided for in said ordinances of the City of Beaumont, and when such requirements are preperly met and complied with the permit, permit fee and license fee ( except the mini- mum license fee) as provided for in Sections 3 and 5 hereof, shall not be required. Section 5. LICENSE FOR TRAILER, OR TENT, OR TOURIST CAMP; APPLICATION THEREFOR AND ISSUANCE THEREOF. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, oper- ate or maintain a trailer camp, tent -camp or tourist camp or combina- tion of the same, within the limits of the City of Beaumont without having first secured a license therefor from the City Tax Collector, granted and existing in compliance with the terms of this Ordinance. Such license shall expire one year from the date of issuance, but may be renewed under the provisions of this Ordinance for additional per- iods of one year. Such license shall be non -transferable and the fee therefor shall be payable in advance on an annual basis as hereinafter --- provided. (b) The application for such license or the renewal thereof shall be filed with the City Tax' Collector and shall be accompanied by a fee of Two and 00/100 ($2.00) Dollars for each unit and cabin plot in the existing or proposed trailer camp, tent camp, tourist camp or combination thereof. The license fee for a tourist camp or combination thereof as provided for herein shall in any event be not less than Ten and 00/100 ($10.00) Dollars. The -application for a license or a renew- al thereof shall be made on printed forms furnished by the City Tax Collector and shall include the name and address of the applicant, the name and address of the owner in fee of the tract if other than appli- cant, and such legal description of the premises, upon which the trail- er, tent or tourist camp is or will be located as will readily identify and definitely locate the premises. The application shall be accompanied by four copies of the camp plan showing the following, either existin or as proposed; (1) The extent and area used for camp purposes; (2� Roadways and driveways; (3) Location of units and cabin plots for trailer coaches, tents and cabins; (4) Location and number of sanitary conveniences, including toilets, washrooms, laundries and utility rooms to be used by occupants of units -,or -cabins (_in cases where cabins- do- not - have all ­such facilities in proper conformance with city building, -plumb- ing and other ordinances); (5) Method and plan of sewage disposal; (6) Method and plat' of gafmge removal; (7) Plan for water supply; (8) Plan for electrical lighting of units and cabins. (c) Before such license may be issued or renewed the camp plan must be examihed and approved by the Building Inspector, Fire Mar- shal, Plumbing Inspector, Electrical Inspector and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare or their duly authorized representatives, as complying with all the provisions of this ordinance. (d) Licenses issued under the terms of this Ordinance convey no right to erect any building, to do any plumbing work or to do any electrical work, -3- � M ., I lI10 (e) All trailer camps, tent camps and tourist camps or com- binations of same now existing or laid out within the City of Beaumont• shall conform to or be made to conform to the requirements of this Or- dinance and certificate of occupancy secured as provided in Section 11 hereof within thirty ( 30) days after the enactment of this Ordinance, except that the camp license and occupant's permit as provided herein shall be obtained within ten (10) days after enactment of this Ordin- ance. Section 6. LOCATION. (a) No trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combina- tion of same shall be located within the''limits of the City of Beaumont unless City water or other water supply approved by the City Health Of- ficer and City sanitary sewer connections or approved septic tanks and fire.protection facilities are available. (b) No occupied trailer, tent, camp cottage, or cabin shall be located within less than ten feet (101) from any other trailer, tent, camp cottage, or cabin or other building or within five feet (51). of the boundary.line of the tract on which located; provided that no trailer shall be located -within less than twenty-five feet (251) from any other trailer,measured from trailer center to trailer center; and provided further that two or more camp cottages or cabins may be con- structed adjoining each other as one building and there may be attach- ed to each such camp cottage or cabin building a structure for provid- ing cover for one vehicle_; provided further that such two or more ad- joining camp cottages or cabins shall be constructed so as to utilize the area of one cabin plot for each camp. cottage or cabin'located thereon. Section 7. CAMIP PLAN. (a) Every trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combina- tion of same shall be located on a well drained area free from marsh and heavy or dense growth of brush or weeds and the premises shall be properly graded so as -to prevent the accumulation of storm or other water and so as to insure rapid drainage.durin g and following rains. - (b) Units and cabin plots shall be clearly designated by markers at each corner and the camp so arranged that all units and cabin plots shall face or abut on a driveway of not less than eighteen feet (18 t ) in width, giving easy access from all units and cabin plots to a public street or highway. Such driveway shall be paved, graveled, shelled or similarly improved and mainta fined in good condition, be well marked in the daytime and well.lighted at night and shall not be ob- structed. All entrances and exits shall be well marked and so arranged that they will be easily controlled and supervised. (c) The camp shall be so laid out that no unit or cabin shall be located further than 2D0,feet from the toilets and service buildings provided for herein, and walkways to such buildings shall be paved, graveled, shelled or similarly improved and well lighted at -night. - (d) Every unit shall be furnished with an electric service outlet. Such outlet shall be egifpped with an externally operated switch or fuse of not more than 30 Amperas capacity. (e) There shall be not less than 30 square feet of floor area for each occupant_ of a camp cottage or cabin, but no camp cottage or cabin shall contain lessthan 120 square feet of floor area. (f) Every camp cottage"or cabin shall have at least two windows located on separate walls, preferably opposite. The total window area shall be at least six square feet per person when open for ventilation. No cabin shall contain less than'l8 square feet of window area. All windows, doors and other openings in cabins shall be fully screened with screen wire which shall not be less than 16 mesh per inch. Every cabin shall be at least eight feet from floor to ceiling. -4- 6�26C 1 q 11- 0 (g) Hotels, lodging houses or administrative buildings, when a part of a trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same,shalllconf orm to the requirements of the City Building Code relat- ing to respective occupancy. Section 8. SERVICE BUILDINGS AND ACCOMMODATIONS. (a) Every trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combi- nation of same shall have erected thereon at a distance not greater than 200 feet from any unit or cabin it is designated to serve, a suit- able building for housing toilets, showers, baths and laundry facilities as required by this Ordinance, such buildings to be known as the Service Buildings. (b) The Service Building shall be roofed, adequately heated, well lighted at all times of day or night, adequately.ventilated by screened openings of mesh not less than 16 per inch, and the floor of same shall be'constructed of concrete or other impervious or water proof material permitting satisfactory cleaning. The angle formed by the floor and side walls shall be water tight. (c) There shall be provided in such Service Building separ- ate toilet rooms for each sex. Flush toilets provided with anadequate water supply shall be inclused in separate compartments and shall be provided for each sex on the ratio of one toilet for each twelve units or cabins or fraction thereof. Each camp having in excess of twelve units or cabins shall have at least one urinal. Toilet rooms shall con- tain lavatories with hot and cold water in the ratio of one lavatory to every twenty-four units or cabins or fraction thereof. (d) Separate bathing facilities shall be provided for each sex in the ratio of one shower or bath enclosed in a separate compart- ment for each twelve units or cabins or fraction thereof. (e) The occupants of a dwelling and the occupants of one trailer, tent or cabin only located within a licensed camp may jointly use one toilet room and bathing facility, and in such case separate toilet rooms and bathing facilities for each sex as provided in Sub- sections (c) and (d) above shall not be required. (f) One slop sink and one laundry tray with adequate water supply shall be provided to serve each ten units or cabins. (g) An abundant supply of hot and cold water shall be provid- ed at all times for bathing, washing and laundry facilities. (h) Where persons other than the Caucasian race are employed or sheltered, separate conveniences shall be provided subject to the same regulations as herein described. (i) The above accommodations shall be based on the total camp capacity according to accepted plans; provided that units and cabin plots individually equipped with such accommodations shall not be in- cluded in determining such camp capacity. Section 9, WATER SUPPLY. (a) Each trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combina- tion of same shall be supplied with water from the City of Beaumont water main if such main is within three hundred -feet (3001) of the site, otherwise, to be provided with an ample and adequate supply of water of sufficient sanitary quality approved by the Director of the Department of Public Welfare or one of his deputies. The water supply faucets shall be located not more than 200 feet from any unit or cabin plot. -5- (b) No common drinking vessels shall be permitted, nor shall any drinking water faucets be placed in any toilet room or water closet c cmpartm.ent. Section 10. WASTE AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL. (a) All waste from showers, baths, toilets, laundries, fau- cets and lavatories and any other waste_, water shall be wasted -into -the City sewer system through .an approved sewer connection where said camp is located within 300 feet of the City sewer system or -otherwise into an adequate septic tank constructed as required by law. In no case shall any waste water be thrown or discharged upon the surface of the ground or disposed of by means other than as herein provided. (b) All sanitary facilities in any trailer which are not connected with the City sewer system by means of water tight hose or pipe connections shall be sealed and their use is hereby declared un- lawful. (c) Each unit and cabin shall be provided with a substantial fly tight metal garbage depository or other garbage receptacles approv- ed by the Director of the Department of Public Welfare and suitable waste paper containers from which the contents shall be removed by the City garbage collection service. The camp operator and each occupant of a unit or cabin respectively shall cause to be placed -or place the garbage containers and receptacles on the curb of the street on the re- gular garbage collection days. Section 11. CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. No trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination thereof shall be occupied in any part thereof except as provided in Sections 4 and 5(e) herein unless or until a certificate of occupancy for the respective trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combina- tion thereof has been issued by the Building Inspector. The Building Inspector shall, after a license has been issued or renewed as herein provided, issue a certificate of occupancy approved by the Director - of the Department of Public Welfare, Fire Marshal, Plumung Inspe ctor, and Electrical Inspector, if after inspections of the premisesit is found that same complies with the provisions of this Ordinance. Section 12. LIMITATION ON. IENGTH OF STAY AND ON NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to remain or live in any trailer, tent or tourist camp for more than.six months in each twelve months period, subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this Ordinance, except that upon a shaming and proof that one or more occu- pants of a trailer, tent or cabin is engaged in vital National Defense work and that there exists in the community a shortage of adequate housing facilities, additional stays -.of -six (6) months -mV -be --granted - by the Building Inspector; such additional,stays being renewable at the end of each six (6) months period upon a -further and similar show- ing; provided, that this time limitation shall not apply to the licen- see of a trailer, tent or tourist camp or his bona fide employees so as to prevent their remaining on the camp premises at all times. (b) No trailer, tent or cabin may be inhabited by a greater number of occupants than that for which it was designed. -6- g3 tf-t-l- Section 13. KANAGZiIEN T (a) In every trailer, tent, or tourist camp or.combination thereof there shall be an office building in which shall be located the office of the person in charge of the said camp. A copy of the camp li- cense and of this Ordinance shall be conspicuously posted therein and copies of all records pertaining to the management and supervision of the premises shall be kept therein along with the camp register, and such records and register shall always be available for inspection by any employee of the Police Department of the City of Beaumont, State, County and Federal law enforcement agents and other agents of the City of Beaumont authorized to inspect the premises. (b) It is hereby made the duty of the attendant or person in charge, together with the licensee to (1) Keep at all times a register of all guests showing for all guests: (a) Names and permanent addresses. (b) Dates and hours of entrance and departure. (c) License numbers of alltrailers and towing or other automobiles. _ (d) States issuing such licenses. (2) Maintain the camp in a clean, orderly and sanitary con- dition at all times. (3) See that the provisions of this Ordinance are complied with and enforced and report promptly to the proper authorities any violations of this Ordinance or any other violations.of law which may come to his attention. (4) Report to the City Health Officer all cases of persons or animals affected or suspected of being affected with any communicable disease. (5) Prevent the running loose of dogs, cats, or other animals or pets, and maintenance of chickens or other fowls or live stock on units or cabin plots. (6) Maintain in convenient places, approved by the Fire De- partiient, hand fire extinguishers in the ratio of one to each eight units or cabins. (7) Prohibit the lighting of open fires on the premises. (8) Prohibit the use of any trailer, tent or cabin by a greater number of occupants than that Bch it is de- signed to accommodate. Section 14. APPLICABILITY OF PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL AND - - BUILDING ORDINANCES. All plumbing, electrical, building and other work on or at any camp licensed under this Ordinance shall be in accordance with the ordin- ances of the City of Beaumont regulating such work unless said ordinances are specifically made inapplicable under the terms of this Ordinance. Section 15. SUSPENSION OF COMPLIANCE DURING NATIONAL EMERGENCY. For a period of the National Emergency the City Manager shall be authorized to approve temporarily, as conditions -from time to time may require, the substitution of building materials, including electrical C� ��� r.► -1 r �y wiring, plumbing, heating and any other materials and equipment, and may approve the substitution of methods of -installation or methSds of construction in respect to buildings, structures, trailers, tents or cabins as required by the ordinances of the City of Beaumont or by this Ordinance, and furthermore, said City Manager shall be authorized to temporarily during the period of the National Emergency waive compliance by any camp operator or occupant of any provision of any ordinance of the City of Beaumont or of this ordinance, providing said City Manager shall find the following facts to exist: (1) The materials required are not available or cannot be obtained within a reasonable time or cannot be obtained except at a prohibitive cost; and (2) The use of such substitute materials or equipment or method of installation or construction or the tem- porary waiver of compliance will not materially in- crease the fire, health or safety hazard, nor mater- ially lessen the structural stability of the huild ing, structure, cabin, trailer or tent for which or on which said substitution is to be used or on which or pertaining to which said waiver is to be made. The rulings of said City Manager in respect to such substitu- tions or waivers shall be complied with by the Inspectors charged with the duty of enforcing the various ordinances of the City of Beaumont and this Ordinance. Section 16. REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION. The Building Inspector, the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, the -Fire Marshal, the Plumbing Inspector, and the Electrical Inspector and their duly authorized agents are each hereby authorized to revoke any permit . or license issued pursuant to the terms of this. Ordinance if after due inspection he determines that the holder thereof has, violated any of the provisions of this Ordinance or that any trailer, trailer carp, tent, tent camp, tourist cottage, cabin or tourist camp or combination cf same is being maintained in an unsani- tary or unsafe manner or is a nuisance. Section 17. HEARING ON GRANTING, DENIAL, RENEWAL, OR REVOCATION OF LICENSE. Any person aggrieved by an order granting, denying, renewing or revoking an occupant's permit or a license for a trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same under this Ordinance may file with the City Clerk a written request for a hearing before the City Commission within five days after issuance of such order. The said Commission shall give notice of a public hearing upon this request to be held in not less than five days after service of the notice on the person requesting the hearing. The City Commission may also give no- tice of the hearing to other persons directly interested in the order in question. -At" such hearing the City Commission shall determine whether the granting, denial, renewal or revocation of the permit or license was in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and shall issue an order to carry out its findings. Section 18. PENALTY. Any person found guilty of violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a -misdemeanor and subject to a fine not to exceed $100.00 and each day such violation exists shall consti- tute a separate offense and be punishable as such hereunder. Section 19. SEPARABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or por- tion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitu- tional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such section, subsec- tion, sentence, clause, -phrase or portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. Section 20. REPEAL. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with or contrary hereto are hereby repealed in so far as they may affect this Ordinance, but such ordinances or parts of ordinances shall remain in full force and effect otherwise. Section 21. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. The fact that the existing ordinances of the City of Beaumont do not afford an adequate and comprehensive regulation of the sanitary conditions of the trailer camps, tent camps or tourist camps and combi— nations thereof, tourist trailers, tourist tents or tourist cottages and cabins, and the further fact that there exists an increasing neces- sity for such regulations due to the rapid growth of the population of the City of Beaumont and the great increase in the number of trailer camps, tent camps and tourist camps and combinations thereof, tourist. trailers, tourist tents and tourist cottages and cabins, located within the City of Beaumont, creates an emergency and imperative necessity for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, which requkes the suspension of the rule requiring that ordinances be read on three several days before their passage, wherefore, said rule is hereby suspended and this ordinance shall be- come effective from and after its passage. PASSED by the affirmative vote of all members of the City Commission this 16th day of November, A. D. 1943. - M A Y 0 R- Lp-t�wr7 AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE REPEALING AN ORDINANCE ENACTED SEPTEMBER 28, 1943 ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULA- TION OF TRAILER CM.TPS, TENT CAMPS AND TOURIST CAMPS OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, TOURIST TRAILERS, TOURIST TENTS AND TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS; DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION; PROHIBITING PARKING OF TRAILERS OUTSIDE OF TRAILER OR TENT CAMPS AID n AKING EXCEPTIONS; PROHIBITING PERMANENT OCCU- PANCY OF '1TRAILERS, TENTS, TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS AND PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS; REQUIRING A PERMIT AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING A LICENSE -AND '-PRESCRIBING A -FEE;_ RECI,UIRII`TG _ COMPLIANCE BY EXISTING CAMPS; PROVIDING RULES AND SPECIFI- CATIONS FOR LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SANITATION; REGULAT- ING WATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; LLhITING DURATION OF OCCUPANCY AND NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS; PRESCRIBING RULES FOR OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF C9TPS; MAKTNG EXISTING ORDINANCIDAPPLI- CABLE; PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION (FPERMITS AND LICENSES AND APPEAL THEREFROM; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING A.SAVINGS CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERETO" AND ORDERING SAME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. WHEREAS, the City Commission of the 'City of Beaumont Passed an ordinance on the 28th day of September, A. D. 1943, entitled "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF TRAILER CAYT IP S, TENT CAMPS AND TOURIST CAMPS OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF,- TOURIST TRAILERS, TOURIST TENTS AND TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS; DEFIAING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION; 'PROHIBITING PARKING OF TRAILERS OUTSIDE OF TRAILER OR TENT CAMPS AND MAKING EXCEP- TIONS; PROHIBITING PERMANENT OCCUPANCY OF TRAILERS, TENTS, TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS AND PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS;' REQUIR- ING A PEPZTIT AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING COMPLIANCE BY EXISTING CAIv!PS; PROVIDING RULES AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SANITATION; REGULATING WATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; =1ITING DURA- TION OF OCCUPANCY AND NUM1BER OF OCCUPANTS; PRESCRIBING RULES FOR OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMPS; MAKING EXISTING ORDIN- ANCES APPLICABLE; PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF PER16ITS AND LICENSES AND APPEAL .THEREkOM; PRESCRIBING PENAL- TIES FOR VIOLATIONS; . PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCE OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERE- TO"; and, 1 -/6-/9 q-3 WHEREAS, on the 26th day of October, A. D. 1943, a referendum petition was filed by a committee of petitioners being composed of W. C. Chadick, Ray Byars, Sam Kojak, E. B. Votaw, and W. 0. Bowers, Jr., objecting to the aforesaid ordinance and to the passage thereof and petitioning the said City Commission to reconsider said ordinance and re- peal the same: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: Section 1. That the ordinance passed by the City Commission of the City of Beaumont on the 28th day of September, A. D. 1943, entitled "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF TRAILER CAMPS.. LENT CAMPS AND TOURIST CAMPS OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, TOURIST TRAILERS, TOURIST TENTS AND TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS; DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION; PRO- HIBITING PARKING OF TRAILERS OUTSIDE OF TRAILER OR TENT CAMPS AND" MAKING EXCEPTIONS; PROHIBITING PERMANENT OCCUPANCY OF TRAILERS, TENTS TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS A�TD PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS, REQUIRING A PERMIT AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING COMPLIANCE BY EXISTING CAMPS; PROVIDING RULES AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SANITATION; REGULATING WATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; LDvIITING DURATION OF OCCUPANCY AND NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS; PRESCRIBING RULES FOR OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMPS; MAKING EXIST- ING ORDINANCES APPLICABLE; PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF PER1IITS AND LICENSES AND APPEAL. THEREFROM; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS;_PROVIDING_A SAVINGS CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERETO" be, and the same hereby is repealed. -2- Section 2. This ordinance shall become effective from and after its passage on this day, the day of November, A. D. 1943, and it is SO ORDERED by an affirmative vote of all members of the City Commission. PASSED by the affirmative vote of all members of the City - �-/ -� --- -- -------------- ---- - Corrdnission this -.Ll� day of November, A. D. 1943. ---- `�- C-F- M A Y O R - - 3- BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: Section 1. (a) An "automobile trailer", "trailer coach", or "trailer" means any vehicle or structure so designed and con- structed in such manner as will permit occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters for one or more persons, or the conduct of any business or profession,. occupation or trade (or use as a selling or advertising device), and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on high- ways or city streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive power, excepting a device used exclusively upon sta- tionary rails or tracks. (b) A "trailer camp" means any park, trailer park, trailer court, court, camp, site, lot, parcel, or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for the purpose of supply- ing a location or accommodations for any trailer coach or trailer coaches and upon which any trailer coach or trailer t I 4, % % �L ; :V AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF TRAILER CA1dPS, TENT CAMPS AND TOURIST CAMPS OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, TOURIST TRAILERS, TOURIST TENTS AND TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS; DEFINING )/ I CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCE- MENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION;.PROHIBITING PARKING OF TRAILERS OUTSIDE :OF TRAILER OR TENT CAMPS AND MAKING EXCEPTIONS; PROHIBITING PERMANENT OCCUPAN- CY OF TRAILERS, TENTS, TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS AND PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS; REQUIRING A PERMIT AAID PRESCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND PRE- SCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING COMPLIANCE BY EXISTING CAMPS; PROVIDING RULES AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR LO- CATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SANITATION; REGULATING WATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; RE- QUIRING CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; LIMITING DURA- TION OF OCCUPANCY AND NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS; PRE- SCRIBING -RULES FOR OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMPS;: FAKING EXISTING ORDINANCESAPPLICABLE; PRO- VIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF PERMITS AND LICENSES AND APPEAL THEREFROM; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDIN- ANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERETO. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: Section 1. (a) An "automobile trailer", "trailer coach", or "trailer" means any vehicle or structure so designed and con- structed in such manner as will permit occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters for one or more persons, or the conduct of any business or profession,. occupation or trade (or use as a selling or advertising device), and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on high- ways or city streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive power, excepting a device used exclusively upon sta- tionary rails or tracks. (b) A "trailer camp" means any park, trailer park, trailer court, court, camp, site, lot, parcel, or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for the purpose of supply- ing a location or accommodations for any trailer coach or trailer coaches and upon which any trailer coach or trailer t I 4, % % (k3 coaches coaches are parked and shall include all buildings used or, intended for use as part of the equipment thereof whether a. charge is made for the use of the trailer camp and its fa- cilities or not. "Trailer camp" shall not include automo- bile or trailer sales lots on which unoccupied trailers are parked for purposes of inspection and sale. (c) A "tourist camp' means any park, tourist park, tourist court, camp, court, site, lot, parcel or tract of land upon which one or more camp cottages or cabins are lo- cated and maintained for the accommodation of transients by the day, week, or month, whether a charge is made or not. (d) A "tent camp" means any park, court, camp, ' site, lot, parcel, or tract of land designed.naintained or intended for the purpose of supplying a location or accommo- dations for any tent or tents and upon which any tent or tents are located and shall include all buildings used or maintained for use as part of the equipment thereof, whether a charge is made for the use of the tent camp and its facilities or not. (e) A "unite means a section of ground in a trailer camp or a tent camp of not less than 600 square feet of un- occupied space in an area designed as the location for only one automobile and one trailer or one automobile and one tentp (f); A "cabin plot" means a section of ground not less than 1,000 square feet in area, upon which only one camp cottage or cabin is located. (g) The word "person" shall be construed to include persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation, tenent, own- er, lessee, or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns. (h) The word "city" as used in this ordinance shall mean the City of Beaumont, Texas. Section 2. ENFORCEMENT. It is hereby made the duty of the Building.. Plumbing and Electrical Inspectors, the Fire Marshals the Chief of Police ti -2- and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare to en- force all provisions of this Ordinance as prescribed herein or such provisions as may hereg.f ter be enacted, and for the purpose of securing such enforcement, the Building, Plumbing and Electrical Inspectors, the Fire Marshal, the Chief of Police and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare or their duly authorized representatives shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon the premises of any trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp and to enter any auto- mobile trailer, tent, camp, cottage or cabin located thereon and inspect the same and all accommodations connected therewith at any reasonable time. Section 3. LOCATION OUTSIDE CAMPS; PERMITS. (a) It shall be unlawful within the limits of the City of Beaumont for any; person to park any trailer on any street, alley or highway or other public place or to park any trailer or place any tent on any tract of land owned by any person occupied or unoccupied within the City of Beau- mont except as provided in this Ordinance. (b) Emergency or temporary stopping or parking of trailers is permitted on any street, alley or highway for not longer than two hours, subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations or limitations imposed by the traf- f is and parking regulations or ordinances for that street, alley or highway, (e) No pens cn shall park or occupy any trailer, or place or occupy any tent on the premises of any occupied dwelling or on any lot which is not a part of the premises of any occupied dwelling, either of which is situated outside an approved trailer camp or tent camp; except the parking of only one unoccupied trailer in an accessory private garage building, or in a rear yard in any district, is permitted providing no living quarters shall be -maintained or any business practiced in said trailer while such trailer is so p ark ed or stored, -3� (d) No person shall park or occupy any trailer, or place or occupy any tent on the premises of any camp licensed hereunder for more than 48 hours unless a permit therefor shall have been first obtained, nor shall any person permit such park- ing, placing or occupancy until the occupant of such trailer or tent has obtained a permit therefor, subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this Ordinance. (e) The permit hereinabove required shall be obtained by the trailer coach or tent occupant from the City Tax Col- lector. Such permit shall be for a period of not more than 30 days and the fee for -same shall be Three and 00/100 ($3.00) Dollars. Successive permits may be obtained for like periods and fees. (f) Applications for the permits shall contain the name and permanent address of applicant, make, model, license number and occupant capacity of trailer or description of tent, number of occupants to occupy such trailer or tent and the name and address of the camp where located or to be located. Said permit shall be valid in any licensed camp in the City of Beaumont, but on change of location the occupant -shall notify the City Tax Collector of such change. Said permit shall be non -transferable. - (g) The permit shall be displayed in a conspicuous manner on each trailer or tent. Section 4. PEIMANEVT OCCUPANCY. Automobile trailers, tents and tourist cottages or cabins shall not be used as a permanent place of abode or as a permanent dwelling or for indefinite periods of time, pro- vided that any such trailer, cottage or cabin properly con- nected with the City water supply and sanitary sewer systems and constructed and located in compliance with all the require- ments of the building, plumbing, sanitary health, zoning and electrical ordinances of the City of Beaumont applicable to -4- permanent structures and not inhabited by a greater number of occupants than that for which it was designed (proof of the latter shall be required by affidavit) may be permitted and permanently occupied on any premises under permits properly secured and complied with as provided for in said ordinances of the City of Beaumont, and when such requirements are pro- perly met and complied with the permit, permit fee and license fee except the minimum as provided for in Sections 3 and 5 hereof, respectively, shall not be required. No person shall use any trailer within the limits of the City of Beaumont for the conduct of any business or profession, occupation or trade, except in compliance with the provisions of this section. Section 5. LICENSE FOR TRAILER, OR TENT, OR TOURIST CAMP; APPLICATION THEREFOR AND ISSUANCE THEREOF. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, maintain or -permit to be established, operated or maintained upon any property owned or controlled by him a trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of the same, within the limits of the City of Beaumont without having first secured a license therefor from the City Tax Collector, granted and existing in compliance with the terms of this Or- dinance. Such license shall expire one year from the date of issuance, but may be renewed under the provisions of this Or- dinance for additional periods of one year. Such license shall be non -transferable and the fee therefor shall be payable in advance on an annual basis'as hereinafter provided. (b) The application for such license or the renewal thereof shall be filed with the City T c Collector and shall be accompanied by a fee of Two and 50/100 (02.50) Dollars for each unit and cabin plot in the existing or proposed trailer camp, tent camp, tourist camp or combination thereof. The license fee for a tourist camp or combination thereof as provided for herein shall in any event -be not less than Ten and 00/100 ($10.00) Dollars. The application for a license or •• � x=11 ����'--�i - a renewal thereof shall be made on printed forms furnished by the City Tax Collector and shall include the names and ad- dresses of the owner in fee of the tract (if the fee is vested in some person other than the applicant, a duly verified state- ment by that person, that the applicant is authorized by him to construct or maintain the trailer, tent or tourist camp and make the application), and such legal description of the pre- mises, upon which the trailer, tent or tourist camp is or will be located as will readily identify and definitely locate the premises. The application shall be accompanied by four copies of the camp plan showing the following, either existing or as proposed:; (1) The extent and area used for camp pur- poses; (2) Roadways and driveways; (3) Location of units and cabin plots for trailer coaches, tents and cabins; (4) Location and number of sah`itary conveniences, including toilets, washrooms, laundries and utility rooms to be -used by occupants of units or -cabins (in cases where cabins do not have all such facilities in proper conformance with city building, plumbing and other ordinances); (5). Method and plan of sewage dis- posal; (6) Method and plan of garbage removal; (7) Plan for water supply; (8) Plan for electrical lighting of units and cabins. (c) Before such license may be issued or renewed the camp plan must be examined and approved by the Building In- spector, Fire Marshal, plumbing Inspector, Electrical Inspector and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare or their duly authorized representatives, as complying with all the pro- visions of this Ordinance. (d) Licenses issued under the terms of this Ordin- ance convey no right to erect any building, to do any plumbing work or to do any electrical work. (e) All trailer camps, tent camps and tourist camps or combinations of same now existing or laid out within -the City of Beaumont shall conform to or be made to conform to the requirements of this Ordinance and certificate of occupancy se- cured as provided in Section 11 hereof within 90 days after the enactment of this Ordinance, except that a license for same as provided herein shall be.immediately obtained, and the occu- pants permits as provided herein shall be required from and after the effective date of this Ordinance. Section 6. WCATION (a) --No trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall be located within the limits of the City of Beaumont unless City water or other water supply ap- proved by the City Health Officer and City sanitary sewer con- nections or approved septic tanks and fire- protection facili- ties are availabb. (b) No occupied trailer, tent, camp cottage, or cabin shall be located within less than ten feet (101) from any other trailer, tent, camp cottage, or cabin or other building or within five feet (5t) of the boundary line of the tract on which located; provided, that two or more camp cot- tages or cabins may be,constructed adjoining each other as one building and there may be attached to each such camp cottage or cabin building a structure for providing cover for one ve- hicle; provided further that such two or more adjoining camp cottages or cabins shall be constructed so as to utilize the area of one cabin plot for each camp cottage or cabin located thereon. Section 7, CAMP PIAN (a) Every trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall be located on a well drained area free from marsh and heavy or dense growth of brush or weeds and the premises shall be properly graded so as to prevent the accumulation of storm or other water and so as to insure rapid -7- drainage during and following rains. (b) Units and cabin plots shall be clearly designated by markers at each corner and the_camp so arranged that all units and cabin plots shall face or abut on a driveway of not less than eighteen feet (18?) in width, giving easy access from all units and cabin plots to a public street or highwayo Such driveway shall be paved or graveled or otherwise weather resisting and maintained in good condition, be well marked in the daytime and well lighted at night and shall not be obstruct- ed. All entrances and -exits shall be well marked and so arrang- ed that they will be easily controlled and supervised. (e) The camp shallbe so laid out that no unit or cabin shall be located further than 200 feet from the toilets and service buildings provided for herein, and walkways to such buildings shall be paved, graveled or otherwise weather re- sisting and well lighted at night. (d) Every unit shall be furnished with an electric service outlet. Such outlet shall be equiped with an external- ly operated snitch or fuse of not more than 30 Amperes capa- city. (e) There shall be not less than 30 square feet of floor area for each occupant of a camp cottage or cabin, but no camp cottage or'cabin shall contain less than 120 square feet of floor area. (f)- Every camp cottage or cabin shall have at least two windows located on separate walls, preferably opposite. The total window area shall be at least six square feet per per- son when open for ventilation. No cabin shall contain less than 18 square feet of window area. All windows, doors and other openings in cabins shall be fully screened with screen wire which shall not be less than 16 mesh per inch. Every cabin shall be at least eight feet from floor to ceiling. Mm rC), 01�3 (g ) Inside walls and ceilings of camp cottages or cabins shall be covered with incombustible material when re- quired by the City Fire Marshal and together with floors and fixtures, shall be constructed in a manner that would avoid places which could harbor vermin. Heating and cooking facili- ties shall be subject to regulation by the City Fire Marshal and shall be provided with asbestos board or metal backing or shields where required by said Fire Marshal. (h) Hotels, lodging houses or administrative build- ings, when a part ofa trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall conform to the requirements of the City Building Code relating to respective occupancy. Section 8. SERVICE BUILDINGS AND ACC OBLVIODAT IONS. (a) Every trailer camp-, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall have erected thereon at a distance not greater than 200 feet from any unit or cabin it is designat- ed to serve, a suitable building for housing toilets, showers and laundry facilities as required by this Ordinance, such buildings to be known as the Service Buildings. (.b) The Service Building shall be roofed and shall be adequately lighted at all times of day or night and shall be adequately ventilated by screened openings of mesh not less than 16 per inch, shall'ha,ve,.floors and side walls to a height of six inches of concrete or other impervious material and each toilet room sl%all be provided with a floor drain and the floor sloped to drain it. The angle formed by the floor and side walls shall be water tight. (c) There shall be provided in such Service Building separate toilet rooms for each sex. Flush toilets provided with an adequate water supply shall be inclosed in separate com- partments and shall be provided for each sex on the ratio of one toilet for each twelve units or cabins or fraction thereof. Each camp having in excess of twelve units or cabins shall have at lease one urinal. Toilet rooms shall contain lava- - 9 - tories with hot and cold water on the ratio of one lava- tory to every twenty-four units or cabins or fraction thereof. (d) Separate bathing facilities shall be provided for each sex on the ratio of one shower enclosed in a compart- ment of at least nine square feet for each twelve units or i cabins or fraction thereof. Each shower compartment shall be supplemented by a dressing compartment of at least 12 square feet. (e) One slop sink and one laundry tray with adequate water supply and one ironing board shall be provided to serve each ten units or cabins. (f) An abundant supply of hot and cold water shall be provided at all times for bathing, washing and laundry fa- cilities. (g) Where persons other than the Caucasian race are employed or sheltered, separate conveniences shall be provided subject to the same regulations as herein described. (h) The above accommodations shall be based on the total camp capacity according to accepted plans; provided that units and cabin plots individually equipped with such accommo- dations shall not be included in determining such camp capacity. Section 9. WATER SUPPLY (a) Each trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall be supplied with water from the City of Beaumont water main if such main is within 150 feet of the site, otherwise to be provided with an ample and adequate supply of water of sufficient sanitary quality approved by the Direct- or of the Department of Public Welfare or one of his deputies. The water supply faucets shall be located not more than 200 feet from any unit or cabin plot, (b) No common drinking vessels shall be permitted, nor shall any drinking water faucets be placed in any toilet room or water closet compartment, ..10- Section 10, WASTE AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL. (a) All waste from showers, toilets, laundries, faucets and lavatories and any other waste water shall be wasted into the City sewer system through an approved sewer connection where within 150 feet of the City sewer system or otherwise into an adequate septic tank constructed as re- quired by law. In no case shall any waste water be thrown or discharged upon the since of the ground or disposed of by means other than as herein provided. (b) All sanitary facilities in any trailer which are not connected with the City sewer system by means of rJ28;id pipe connections shall be sealed and their use is hereby de- clared unlawful. (c) Each unit and cabin shall be provided with a aub- stantial fly tight metal garbage depository and suitable waste paper containers from which the contents shall be removed by the City garbage collection saidee. Section 11. CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY No trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combina- tion thereof shall be occupied in any part thereof except as provided in Sections 4 and 5(e) herein unless or until a certi- ficate of occupancy for the respective trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination thereof has been issued by the Building Inspectors The Building Inspector shall, after a 11 - cense has been issued or renewed as herein provided, issue a certificate of occupancy approved by the Director of the Depart- ment of Public Welfare, Fire Marshal, Plumbing Inspector, and Electrical Inspector, if after inspections of the premises it is found that same complies with the provisions of this Ordinance. z -11- Section 12. LIMITATION ON LENGTH OF STAY AND ON NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to remain or live in . any trailer, ' tent or tourist camp for more thm six months in each twelve months period, subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this Ordinance, except that upon a showing and proof that one or more occupants of a trailer, tent or cabin is engaged in vital National Defense work and that there exists In the community a shortage of adequate housing facilities, ad- ditional stays of 90 days may be granted by the Building In- spector, such additional stays being renewed at the end of each 90 days period upon a further and similar showing; provided, that this time limitation shall not apply to the licensee of a trailer, tent or tourist camp or his bona fide employees so as to prevent their remaining on the camp premises at all times. (b) No trailer, tent or cabin maybe inhabited by a greater number of occupants than that for which it was de- signed. Section 13. MANAGEMENT (a) In every trailer, tent, or tourist camp or com- bination thereof there shall be an office building in which shall be located the office of the person in charge of the said camp. A copy of the camp license and of this Ordinance shall be conspicuously posted therein and copies of allrecords per- taining to the management and supervision of the premises shall be kept therein along with the camp register, and such records and register shall always be available for inspection by any employee of the Police Department of the City of Beaumont, State, County and Federal law enforcement agents and other agents of the City of Beaumont authorized to inspect the premises. (b) It is hereby made the duty of the attendant or person in charge, together with the licensee to: -12- -19P1 (1) Keep at all times a register of all guests showing for all guests: (a) Names and permanent addresses. (b) Dates of entrance and departure. (c) License numbers of all .trailers and towing or other automobiles. (d) States issuing such licenses. (2) Maintain the camp in a clean, orderly and sanitary condition at all times (3) See that the provisions of this Ordinance are canplied with and enforced and report promptly to the proper authorities any violations of this Ordinance or any other violations of law which may come to his atten- tion. (4) Report to the City Health Officer all cases of persons or animals affected or suspe:ct6d of being af- fected with any communicable disease. (5) Prevent the running loose -of dogs, cats, or other animals or pets, and maintenance of chickens or other fowls or live stock on units or cabin plots. (6) Maintain in convenient places, approved by the Fire Department, hand fire extinguishers in the ratio of one to each eight units or cabins. (7) Prohibit the lighting of open fires on the M premises. (8) Prohibit the use of any trailer, tent or cabin by a greater number of occupants than that which it Is designed to accommodate. Section 14, APPLICABILITY OF PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL AND BUILDING ORDINANCES. All plumbing, electrical, building and other work on or at any camp licensed under this Ordinance shall be in accordance with the ordinances of the City of Beaumont re - i-2 gulating such work unless said ordinances are specifically made inapplicable under the terms of this Ordinance. Section 15, REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION. The Building Inspector, the Director of the Depart- ment of Public Welfare, the Fire Marshal, the Plumbing In- spector, and the Electrical Inspector and their duly authoriz- ed agents are each hereby authorized to revoke any permit or license issued pursuant to the terms of this Ordinance if af- ter due inspection he determines that the holder thereof has violated any of the provisions of this Ordinance or that any trailer, trailer camp, tent, tent camp, tourist cottage, cabin or tourist camp or combination of said camps is being maintain- ed in an unsanitary or unsafe manner or is a nuisance. Section 16. HEARING ON GRANTING, DENIAL, RENEWAL, OR REVOCATION OF LICENSE. Any person aggrieved by an order granting, denying, renewing or revoking an occupant's permit or a license for a trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same under this Ordinance may #Ile with the City Clerk a written request for a hearing before the City Commission with- in five days after issuance of such order. The said Commis- sion shall give notice of a public hearing upon this request to be held in not less than five days after service of the notice on the person requesting the hearing. The City Commission may also give notice of the hearing to other persons directly in- terested in the order in question. At such hearing the City Commission shall determine whether the granting, denial, renew,- al enew-al or revocation of the permit or license was in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and shall issue an order to carry out its findings. -14- Section 17e PENALTY* Any person found guilty of violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not to exceed 0200.00 and each day such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense and be punishable as such hereunder. Section 18. SEPARABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentence., clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid orunconstitutionalby any court Of competent jurisdiction such section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion shall be deemed a separate., distinct and independent provi- sion roviSion and such holding shall not affect the validity of the re- maining portions thereof. Section 19. REPEAL All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with or contrary hereto are hereby repealed. PASSED by- theCity Commission this day of A. D. 1943. A Y 0 R -15- AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF TRAILER CAMPS, TENT CAMPS -AND TOURIST CAMPS OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, TOURIST TRAIIE RS, TOURIST TENTS AND TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS; DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCE- MENT OFFICERS AND INSPECTION; PROHIBITING PARKING OF TRAILERS OUTSIDE OF TRAILER OR TENT CAMPS AND MAKING EYCEPTIONS; PROHIBITING PERMANENT OCCUPAN- CY OF TRAILERS, TENTS, TOURIST COTTAGES AND CABINS AND PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS; REQUIRING A LICENSE AND PRESCRIBING A FEE; REQUIRING CGEPLIANCE BY EXIST- ING CAMPS; PROVIDING RULES AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SANITATION; REGULATING WATER SUPPLY AND WATER AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL; RE- 'N`QUIR NG CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; LIMITING DURA- !TION/OF OCCUPANCY AND NUAMER OF OCCUPANTS; PRE - ,14 SCRIBING RULES FOR OPERATION.' -,AIM MANAGEMENT OF ;3 -COURTS; PROVIDING A PRIVILEGE, SERVICE AND INSPEC- . (PYON CHARGE; MAKING MISTING ORDINANCES APPLICABLE; PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF LICENSES AND APPEAL THEREFROM; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR �r VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY HERETO. BE IT ,ORDAINED BY 'TEE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: -Section 1. DEFINITIONS (a) An "automobile trailer". "trailer coach", or 'trailer" means any vehicle or structure so designed and con- structed in such manner as will permit occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters for one or more persons, or the conduct of f any business or profession, occupation or trade (or use as a �[ selling or advertising device), and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on high - grays or city streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive -power, excepting a device used exclusively upon sta- tionary rails or trackse (b) A "trailer camp" means any park, trailer park, trailer court, court-, camp, site, lot, parcel, or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for the purpose of sup- plying a location or accommodations for any trailer coach or trailer coaches and upon which any trailer coach or trailer vw �4 D 1. -02„ -19 Y4- 6 coaches are parked and shall include all buildings used or intended for use as part of the equipment thereof whether'a charge is made for the use of the trailer camp and its fa- cilities or not. "Trailer campt° shall not include automo- bile or trailer sales lots on which unoccupied trailers are parked for purposes of inspection and sale. (c) A "tourist camp" means any park, tourist park, tourist court, camp, court, site, lot, parcel or tract of land upon which one or more camp cottages or cabins are lo- cated and maintained for the accommodation of transients by the day, week, or month, whether a charge is made or not. (d) A "tent camp" means any park, court, camp, site, lot, parcel, or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for the purpose of supplying a location or accommo- dations for any tent or tents and upon which any tent or tents are located and shall include all buildings used or maintained for: use as part of the equipment thereof, whether a charge is- made for the use of the tent camp and.its facili- ties or not. (e) A "unit" means a section of ground in a trail- er camp or a tent camp of not less than 800 square feet of unoccupied space in an area designed as the location for only one automobile and one trailer or one automobile and one tent. (f) A "cabin. plot" means a section of ground not less then 30 feet by 40 feet in area, upon which only one camp cottage or cabin is located. . (g) The word "person" shall be construed to in - elude persons, parternship, firm, company, corporation, tenent, owner, lessee, or licensee, their agents, heirs or assigns. Section 2. ENFORCEMENT It is hereby made the duty of the Building Inspector and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare to enforce -2- 6-),1.(_,l ! q-11---() �_J5.t� �U- all provisions of this Ordinance as prescribed herein or such provisions as may hereafter be enacted, and for the purpose of securing such enforcement, the Building Inspector and.the Director of the Department of Public Welfare or their duly authorized representatives shall have the right and are here- by empowered to enter upon the premises of any trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp and to enter any automobile trailer, tent, camp, cottage or cabin located thereon and inspect the same and all accommodations connected therewith at any rea- sonable time. Section 3. LOCATION OUTSIDE CAMPS (a) It shall be unlawful within the limits of the City of Beaumont for any person to park any trailer on any street, alley or highway or other public place or to park any trailer or place any tent on any tract of land owned by any person occupied or unoccupied within the City of Beau- mont except as provided in this Ordinance. (b) Emergency or temporary stopping or parking of trailers is permitted on any street, alley or highway for not longer than two hours, subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations or limitations imposed by the traf- fic and parking regulations or ordinances for that street, alley, or highway. (c) No person shall park or occupy any trailer, or place or occupy any tent on the premises of any occupied dwelling '6r on any lot which is not a part of the premises of any occupied dwelling, either of which is situated outside an approved trailer camp or tent camp; except the parking of only one unoccupied trailer in an accessory private garage building, or in a rear yard in any district, is permitted providing no living quarters shall be maintained or any busi- ness practiced in said trailer while such trailer is so park- ed or stored. -3- C92c( �l- 9 d 6- rC711 �3 Section 4. PERITAEW T OCCUPANCY Autbomobile.'trailers, tents and tourist cottages or cabins shall not be used as a permanent place of abode or as a permanent dwelling or for indefinite periods of time, pro- vided that any such trailer, cottage or cabin properly con- nected with the City water supply and sanitary sewer systems and constructed and located in compliance with all the re- quirements of the Building, Plumbing, Sanitary, Health, Zon- ing and Electrical Ordinances of the City of Beaumont and not inhabited by a greater number of occupants than that for which it was designed, may be permitted on any premises under permits properly secured as provided for in said Building, Plumbing, Electrical, Sanitary, Health and Zoning Ordinances. No person shall use any trailer within the limits of the City of Beaumont for the conduct of any business or profes- sion, occupation or trade. Section 5. LICENSE FOR TRAILER, OR TENT, OR TOURIST CAMP; APPLICATION THEREFOR AND ISSUANCE THEREOF. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, maintain or permit to be established, operated or maintained upon any property owned or controlled by him a trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of the same, within the limits of the City of Beaumont without hav- ing first secured a license therefor from the City Tax Col- lector, granting and existing in compliance with the terms of this Ordinance. Such license shall expire one year from the date of issuance, but may be renewed under the provisions of this Ordinance for additional periods of one year. Such li- cense shall be non -transferable and the fee therefor shall be payable in, advance on an annual basis as hereinafter provid- ed. 0 (b) The application for such license or the re- newal thereof shall be filed with the City Tax Collector and shall be accompanied by a fee of Two and 50/100 ($2.50) Dollars for each unit and cabin plot in the existing or pro- posed trailer camp, tent, camp, tourist -camp or combination thereof, and a license bond in the sum of one thousand dol- lars (y61,000.00) to guarantee compliance with the terms of this Ordinance. The application for a license or a renewal thereof shall be made on printed forms furnished by the City Tax Collector and shall include the names and addresses of the owner in fee of the tract (if the fee is vested in some person other than the applicant, a duly verified statement by that person, that the applicant is authorized by him to construct or maintain the trailer, tent or tourist camp and make the application), and such legal description of the pre- mises, upon which the trailer, tent or tourist camp is or will be located as will readily identify and definitely locate the premises. The application shall be accompanied by four copies . of the camp plan showing the following, either existing or as proposed: (1) The extent and area used for camp purposes; (2) Roadways and driveways; (3) Location of sites or units for trailer coaches, tents or cabins; (4) Locationand number of sanitary conveniences, including toilets, washrooms, laundries and utility rooms to be used by occupants of units or cabins (in cases where cabins do not have all such facili- ties in proper conformance with city building, plumbing and other ordinances); (5) Method and plan of sewage disposal; (6) Method and plan of garbage removal; (7) Plan for water supply; (8) Plan for electrical lighting of units and cabins. (c) Before such license may be issued or renewed the camp plan must be examined and approved by the Building Inspector, Fire Marshal, plumbing Inspector, Electrical In - Spector and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare -5- or their duly authorized representatives, as complying with all the provisions of this Ordinance and all other applic- able ordinances of the City of Beaumont. . (d) Licenses issued under the terms of this Or- dinance convey no right to erect any building, to do any plumbing work or to do any electrical work. (e) All trailer camps, tent camps and tourist camps or combinations of same now existing or laid out, within the City of Beaumont shall conform to or be made to conform to the requirements of this Ordinance and all other appli- cable ordinances of the City of Beaumont and certificate of occupancy secured asprovided in Section ll hereof within 90 days after the enactment of this Ordinance, except that a license for same as provided herein shall be immediately obtained and the privilege, service and inspection fee as provided herein shall be paid from and after the effective date of this Ordinance. Section 6. LOCATION (a) No trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall be located within the limits of the City of Beaumont unless City water or other water supply approved by the City Health Officer and City sanitary sewer connections or approved septic tanks and fire protection fa- cilities are available. (b) No occupied trailer, tent, camp cottage, or cabin shall be located within less than ten feet (10 r ) from any other trailer, tent, camp cottage, or cabin or other building or within five feet ( 5 1 ) of the boundary line of the tract on which located; provided, that two camp cottages ME oar cabins may be constructed adjoining each other as one building and there may be attached to each such camp cottage or cabin building a structure for providing cover for one vehicle; provided further that such two adjoining camp cot- tages or cabins shall be constructed so as to utilize the area of two cabin plots. Section 7. CAMP PLAN (a) Every trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall be located on a well drained area free from marshand heavy or dense growth of brush or weeds and the premises shall be properly graded so as to prevent the accumulation of storm or other water and so as to insure rapid drainage during and following rains. (b) Units and cabin plots shall be clearly desig- n,,ted by markers at each corner and the camp so arranged that all units and cabin plots shall face or abut on a driveway of not less than eighteen feet (181) in width, giving easy access from all units and.cabin plots to a public street or highway. -Such driveway shall be. paved or graveled -or other- wise weather resisting and maintained in good condition, be well marked in the daytime and well lighted at night and shall not be obstructed. All entrances and exits shall be well marked and so arranged that they will be easily control- led and supervised. (c) The camp shall be so laid out that no unit or cabin shall be located further than 200 feet from the toilets and service buildings provided for herein, and walkways to stach buildings shall be paved, graveled or otherwise weather resisting and well lighted at night. (d) Every unit shall be furnished with an electric service outlet. Such outlet shall be equiped with an external- ly operated switch or fuse of not less than 30 Amperes capa- city,, and a heavy duty outlet receptacle. -7- ( e) There shall 'be not less than. -40; `square feet of floor area for each occupant of a camp cottage or _cab3,n, but no camp cottage'or cabin shall contain less than 150 square feet of floor area. (f) Every camp cottage or cabin shall have at least two windows located on separate walls, preferably opposite. The total window area shall be at least six square feet per person when open for ventilation. No cabin shallcontain less than 18 square feet of window area. All windows, doors and other openings in cabins shall be fully screened with screen wire shish shall not be less than 16 mesh per inch. Every cabin shall be at least eight feet from floor to ceiling. (g) Inside walls and ceilings of camp cottages or cabins shall be covered with incombustible material approv- ed by the City Fire Marshal and together with floors and fix- tures, shall be constructed in a manner that would avoid places which could harbor vermin. Heating and cooking facilities shall be subject to regulation by the City Fire Marshal and shall be provided with asbestos board or metal backing or shields where required by said Fire Marshal. (h) Hotels, lodging houses or administrative build- ings, when a part of a trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall conform to the requirements of the City Building Code relating to respective occupancy. Section Be SERVICE BUILDINGS AND ACCOMMODATIONS (a) Every trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall have erected thereon at a dis- tance not greater than 200 feet.from any unit or cabin it is designated to serve, a suitable building for housing toilets, showers and laundry facilities as required by this ordinance, such buildings to be known as the Service Buildings. (b) The Service Building shall be roofed and shall be adequately lighted at all times of day or night and shall be -adequately ventilated ventilated by screened openings of mesh not less than 16 per inch, shall have floors and side walls to a height of six inches of concrete or other impervious mater- ial and each toilet room shall be provided with a floor drain and the floor sloped to drain it. The angle formed by the floor and side walls shall be water tight. (c) There shall be provided in such Service Build- ing separate toilet rooms for each sex. Flush toilets pro- vided with an adequate water supply shall be inclosed in se- parate c-ompartments and shall be provided for each sex on the ratio of one toilet for each eight units or cabins or fraction thereof. Each male toilet room shall have one ur- inal for each 16 units or cabins, but in no case shall any male toilet room be without one urinal. Toilet rooms shall contain lavatories with hot and cold water on the ratio of one lavatory to every eight units or cabins or fraction;,- thereof. raction::thereof. (d) Separate bathing facilities for each sex shall be provided with one shower enclosed in a compartment.,, -.,at least four feet square for each eight units or cabins or fraction thereof. Each shower compartment sha,1,1 ,be supplemented by a dressing compartment of at least 12 square feet. r; (e) One slop sink and one laundry try with ade- quate water supply and one ironing board shall be provided to serve each ten units o``:cabins. (f) An abundant supply of hot and cold water shall be provided at all times for bathing, washing and laundry fa- cilities. (g) Where persons other than the Caucasian race Ore employed or sheltered, separate conveniences shall be provid- ed subject to the same regulations as herein described. (h) The above accommodations shall be based on the total camp capacity according to accepted plans. N Vic( `) - 15 P � ) C15 -C / t14� 9--1 1-M,��C Section 9. WATER SUPPLY (a) Each trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same shall be supplied with water from the City of Beaumont water main if such main is within 150 feet of the site,ctherwise to be provided with an ample and ade- quate supply of water of sufficient sanitary quality approved by the Director of the Department of Public Welfare or one of his deputies. The water supply faucets shall be located not more than 200 feet from any unit or cabin plot. (b) No common drinking vessels shall be permitted, nor shall any drinking water faucets be placed in any toilet room or water closet compartment. Section 10. WASTE AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL (a) All waste from showers, toilets, laundries, faucets and lavatories and any other waste water shall be I wasted into the City Sewer system through an approved sew- er connection where within 150 feet of a City sewer system or otherwise into an adequate septic tank constructed as re- quired by law. In no case shall any waste water be thrown or discharged upon the surface of the ground or disposed of by means other than as herein provided. (b) All sanitary facilities in any trailer which are not connected with the City sewer system by means of rig- id pipe connections shall be sealed and their use is hereby declared unlawful. (c) Each unit and cabin shall be provided with a substantial fly tight metal garbage depository and suitable waste paper containers from which the contents shall be re- moved by the City garbage collection service. -10- { Section 11, CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY No trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or com- bination thereof shall be occupied in any part thereof except as provided in Section 5("e) herein unless or until a certi- ficate of occupancy for the respective 'trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination thereof has been issued by the Building Inspector. The Building Inspector shall, after a license has been issued as herein provided, issue a certificate of occupancy approved by the Director of the De- partment of Public Welfare, if after inspections of the pre- mises it is found that same complies with the provisions of this Ordinance. Section 12. LIMITATION ON LENGTH OF STAY AND ON N[711IBER OF -OCCUPANTS (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to remain or live in any trailer, tent or tourist camp for more than 90 days in each 12 months period, subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this Ordinance, except that upon a showing and proof that one or more occupants of a trailer, tent or cabin is engaged in vital National Defense work and that there exists in the community a shortage of adequate housing faci- lities, additional stays of 60 days may be -granted by the Building Inspector, such additional stays being renewed at the end of each 60 day period upon a further and similar showing; provided, that this time limitation should not apply to the licensee of a trailer, tent or tourist camp or his bona fide employees so as to prevent their remaining on the camp pre- mises at all times. (b) No trailer, tent or cabin may be inhabited by a greater numbertof occupants than that for which it was de- signed. -11- t Section 13. MANAGEMENT (a) In every trailer, tent, or tourist camp or combination thereof there shall be an office building in which shall be located the office of the person in charge of the said camp. A copy of the camp license and of this Ordinance shall be posted therein and copies of all records pertaining to the management and supervision of the premises shall be Dept therein along with the camp register and such records and register shall always be available for inspec- tion by any employee of the Police Department of the City of.. Beaumont, State, County and Federal law enforcement agents and other agents of the City of:".Beaumont authorized to in- spect the premises. (b) It is hereby made the duty of the attendant or person in charge, together with the licensee to: (1) Keep at all times a register of all guests showing for all guests: (a) Names and permanent addresses. departure. (b) Dates of entrance and (c) License numbers of all trailers and towing or other automobiles. (d) States issuing such li- censes. (2.) -Maintain -the camp in a clean, or- derly and sanitary condition at all times. (3) See that the provisions of this / Ordinance are complied with and enforced and re- port promptly to the proper authorities any vio- lations of this Ordinance or any other violations of law which may come to his attention. (4) Report to the City Health Officer all cases of persons or animals affected or sus- pected of being affected with any communicable disease. -12- (5) Prevent the running loose of dogs, cats, or other animals or pets, and maintenance of chickens or other fowls or live stock on units or cabin plots. (6) Maintain in convenient places, ap- proved by the .Fire Department, hand fire extin- guishers in the ratio of one to each eight units or cabins. (7) Collect the service charge provid- ed for in Section 14 of this Ordinance, frau the occupants of each unit in the camp and pay over the money so collected to'the City Tax Collector. A book shall be kept showing the names of the persons paying said service charges, dates for r which paid and the amount paid. (8) Prohibit the lighting of open fires on the premises. (9) Prohibit the use of any trailer, tent or cabin by a greater number of occupants than that which it is designed to accommodate. Section 14, SERVICE AND INSPECTION CHARGES There is hereby imposed a privilege, service and inspection charge of 10¢ per day per unit on the occupant or occupants of each trailer camp or tent camp or combination thereof licensed hereunder, which charge shall be paid to the licensee as agent for the City of Beaumont. The licensee of the trailer camp or tent camp or combination thereof shall collect this privilege, service and inspection charge 'for the City of Beaumont and pay it over to the City Tax Collector within five days after the expiration of each calendar month. Said licensee shall file with the City Tax Collector at:.:-th.a -13- ,y time of said payment 'a copy of its records showing the names of the persons paying said privilege, service and inspection charges,, -the dates for which paid, and the amounts paid. Section 15, APPLICABILITY OF PLU ABING, ELECTRICAL AND BUILDING ORDINANCES All plumbing, electrim 1, building and other work on or at any camp licensed under this Ordinance shall be in ac- cordance with the ordinances of the City of Beaumont regulat- ing such work unless said ordinances are specifically made inapplicable under the terms of this Ordinance. Section 16. REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION The Building Inspector and/or the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, or their duly authorized agents are each hereby authorized to revoke any license issued pur- suant to the terms of this Ordinance if after due investiga- tion he determines that the holder thereof has violated any of the provisions of this Ordinance or that any trailer, trailer camp, tent, tent camp, tourist cottage, cabin or tourist camp or combination of said camps is being maintained in an unsanitary or unsafe manner or is a nuisance. Section 17. HEARING ON GRANTING, DENIAL, RENEWAL, OR REVOCATION OF LICENSE Any person aggrieved by an order granting, deny- ing, renewing or revoking a license for a trailer camp, tent camp or tourist camp or combination of same under this Ordin- ance may file a writtenrequest for a hearing before the City Commission within five days after issuance of such order. The said Commission shall give notice of a public hearing up- on this request to be held in not less than five days after service of the notice on the person requesting the hearing. The City Commission may also give notice of the hearing to other persons directly interested in the order in question. -14- I , r till 43 At such hearing the City Commission shall determine whether the granting, denial, renewal or revocation of the license was in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and shall issue an order to carry out its findings. Section 18. PENALTY Any person found guilty of violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not to exceed $200.00 and each day such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense and be punishable as such hereunder. Section 19, SEPARABILITY--' If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or. portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or uncorn titutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provi- sion and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. Section 20, REPEAL All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with or contrary hereto are hereby repealed. PASSED by the City Commission this day of , A. D. 19 43. MAYOR -