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1994-067 Respecting the licensing, regulating and governing of trailer camps . ,II II II , I I I I II I , I 1- II I , , II II II Ii II II II II II II !I II II II II II II II II ~ CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF ORO-MEDONTE BY-LAW NO. 94- 67 Being a By-law of The Corporation of the Township of Oro-Medonte respecting the licensing, regulating and governing of trailer camps. WHEREAS provision is made under the Municipal Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. M.45, Subsection 236(15), for licensing, regulating and governing trailer camps, and for prohibiting the use of any lots within the trailer camp, or occupancy of trailers without licence therefore: NOW THEREFORE the Council of The Corporation of the Township of Oro-Medonte enacts as follows: 1. DEFINITIONS 1.1 "Building Inspector" means a Building inspector of the Township of Oro-Medonte. 1.2 "By-law Enforcement Officer" means a person who is appointed or authorized by the Municipality to enforce the by-laws of the Municipality. 1.3 "Drinking Water" means water made available for human consumption. 1. 4 "Fire Chief" means the Chief Fire Official of the Township of Oro-Medonte Fire Department. 1.5 "Health unit" means an officer of the Simcoe County District Health Unit having jurisdiction in the area in which a trailer camp is located. 1.6 "Hydro Inspector" means the inspector of the Hydro Electric Power Commission of ontario having jurisdiction in the area within the Municipality in which a trailer camp is located. 1. 7 "Lot" means a parcel of land within a trailer camp which is available for the occupation of one trailer. 1.8 "Municipality" means The Corporation of the Township of Oro- Medonte. 1.9 "Operator" means the owner, lessee or person or persons designated by an owner or lessee to operate trailer camps. 1.10 "Service Building" means those buildings and structures naturally and normally incidental, subordinate and primarily devoted to the principal trailer camp use and located on the same property. Such service buildings and structures include, but are not limited to those which house sanitary, toilet, laundry and/or cooking facilities and equipment. 1.11 "Summer Season" means that period of time from and including March 15th to and including the 1st day of November, in any year. 1.12 "Trailer" means any vehicle or structure other than a mobile home, having a valid trailer licence and so constructed that it is suitable for being drawn or propelled by a motor vehicle and notwithstanding that such a vehicle may be jacked-up and may have its running gear removed, and is capable of being used for the purpose of human habitation of a temporary or short term nature, including the living, sleeping or eating accommodation of any person or persons therein. , II 'I , " 1,1 II " II II II II I , , I , " -2- 1.13 "Trailer Camp" means a parcel of land or premises in or upon which one or more trailers are placed, located, used or maintained for the purpose of temporary human habitation, including the living, sleeping or eating accommodation of any persons therein. 1.14 "Winter Season" means that period of time from and including November 15th to and including the 14th day of March, in the subsequent year. 2 . LICENCES 2.1 No person or persons shall establish or operate a trailer camp within the boundaries of the Township of Oro-Medonte without first having obtained a licence, issued in accordance with this By-law which has not expired or been revoked, for the number of lots to be made available for the occupation of trailers during the currency of the licence and having paid the prescribed fees. 2.2 An application for a licence to establish a trailer camp or any renewal thereof, shall be made to the Clerk of the Municipality in the form prescribed by the Municipality. 2.3 (a) Every application shall be accompanied by four copies of a plan of the proposed trailer camp showing natural and artificial features such as: buildings; railways, roads; water courses; drainage ditches and flooded areas within or adjacent to the land to be developed; topography; location and dimensions of proposed lots; service buildings; road and pedestrian walkways; recreational and open space areas; proposed surface drainage; landscaping including lighting and fencing; drinking water supply and sewage disposal facilities; and the prescribed application fee; provided that with an application for renewal of a licence, no such plan is required where no changes from the plan submitted previously have been made or are proposed by the applicant or are required by the Municipality. (b) Any trailer camp in existence at the time of passage of this by-law, and which has not submitted a plan as referred to in clause 2.3(a) shall be required to do so when next renewing a licence for the existing trailer camp. Nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent the continued operation of any trailer camp legally established prior to the passage of this By-law and such trailer camps shall be entitled to be licensed as provided herein. Any enlargement, expansion or extension of an existing trailer camp made after the passage of the By-law, must comply with this By-law. 2.4 The licence application shall also show the location and provide a legal description of the trailer camp, and shall include such other information as may be reasonably required by the Municipality. (c) 2.5 Every application shall be referred by the Clerk to the Chief Building Official, By-Law Enforcement Officer, the Fire Chief, the Hydro Inspector and the Health Unit who shall report thereon. " -3- 2.6 No licence shall be issued unless and until there is recorded upon the application or attached to it: a) the report of the Building Inspector and By-law Enforcement Officer showing that the trailer camp and all trailers, buildings, structures, and facilities, or the plans for the same, are in accordance with the requirements of this By-law and not contrary to any other applicable by-laws of the Municipality; b) The report of the Fire Chief that the trailer camp and all trailers, buildings structures and facilities, or the plans for the same, are in accordance with regulations relating to fire safety and this By-law; c) The report of the Health unit showing that the trailer camp and all trailers, service buildings, structures and facilities, or the plans for the same are in accordance with the provisions of The Health Protection and Promotion Act. 1990 and any regulations made under that Act and this By-law; d) The Final Inspection Certificate of the Hydro Inspector that all electrical wiring and installations proposed or installed are satisfactory; and e) Evidence satisfactory to the Clerk of the Municipality that sewage disposal systems and water supply systems, or plans therefore, have been approved by the Ministry of the Environment and the Health Unit. 2.7 As a condition to approval of an application and issuance of a licence, the Municipality may require the applicant to enter into an agreement respecting the upgrading of interior roadways or parking spaces and construction of any required surface drainage facilities. 2.8 Upon negotiations of any agreement that may be required pursuant to paragraph 2.7 and upon receipt of the reports and evidence referred to in paragraph 2.6 the Clerk shall place such application on the agenda for meeting of the Council of the Township of Oro-Medonte first following and, where Council is of the opinion that the proposed trailer camp meets with the provisions of the By-law and all other applicable By-laws and/or regulations, the licence or licences applied for shall be granted. 2.9 No licence may be transferred without the approval of the Council of the Township of Oro-Medonte which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, and, in reaching a decision upon any application for the transfer of a licence, Council may require the applicant (transferee) to submit the reports and evidence provided for in paragraph 2.6. 2.10 Licences, together with a copy of this By-law, shall be posted in a.conspicuous place in the office or on the premises of the trailer camp at all times. 2.11 Prior to the issuance of any licence or renewal thereof, the owner of the trailer camp shall pay to the Municipality the application fee of $100.00. 2.12 A summer season licence for a trailer camp becomes effective on the 15th day of March of the year in which it is issued, and expires on the 1st day of November, in that same year unless suspended or cancelled. i , I II II il II -4- 2.13 A winter season licence for a trailer camp becomes effective on the 15th day of November of the year in which it is issued, and expires on the 14th day of March next following, unless suspended or cancelled. 2.14 Winter season licences shall not be issued by the Township unless there is evidence satisfactory to the Clerk of the Township that the trailer camp is suitable for winter camping, having regard to Sections 4, 5 and 6 of this By-law. 3. LOCATION AND DRAINAGE 3.1 A trailer camp shall be adequately drained and no low lying, marshy or unstable land shall be developed into lots. 3.2 Where necessary the operator shall provide surface drainage to ensure that casual or stagnant water is sufficiently far from buildings and lots to prevent a nuisance to persons accommodated in the trailer camp. 4. WATER SUPPLY 4.1 An operator shall provide an adequate supply of water for the trailer camp tested satisfactory for human consumption. 4.2 Where an operator has no reason to suspect otherwise, he may assume that at the point where it enters his premises, water supplied by the Municipality or a public utility is satisfactory for human consumption. 4.3 Where any water supplied to a trailer camp from any source is not suitable for human consumption, the operator shall treat such water under the direction of the Health unit and the Ministry of the Environment so as to make it satisfactory for human consumption. 4.4 An operator shall maintain a file during the currency of a licence or any renewal thereof containing all water examination reports sent to him by a Ministry of Health Laboratory and the file shall be open to inspection by the Building Inspector. 5. TOILET CONVENIENCES. PLUMBING AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL 5.1 The operator shall provide toilet conveniences for the use of the guests of the trailer camp in at least the number deemed by the Municipality and the Health unit to be adequate for the particular trailer camp and all such toilet conveniences shall be located, constructed and maintained in accordance with the directions of and regulations administered by the Health Unit, the Ministry of the Environment and the Chief Building Off icial. 5.2 Service buildings providing toilet, bathing, laundry or other such facilities for use in common by guests of the trailer camp shall be located at least 15 meters from any lot boundary and shall have floors of smooth material which is impervious to water and properly graded to a floor drain. The inside walls of such building shall be of a smooth, washable material and, in the case of toilet, shower and laundry rooms, impervious to water. -5- 6. GARBAGE AND GARBAGE DISPOSAL 6.1 The operator shall collect on site garbage daily in the summer season and twice weekly in the winter season within the trailer camp and shall provide containers of a design and construction adequate for the purpose and in locations convenient to each lot. 6.2 The contents of garbage containers shall be collected twice weekly in the summer season and once weekly in the winter season and disposed of by the operator at the operator's own expense in sites approved by the Municipality. 7. GENERAL SITE REOUIREMENTS 7.1 Trailer camps shall be divided into lots and each lot shall contain a minimum area of 186 square metres and shall have a minimum frontage of at least 12 metres on an internal access road. The boundaries of all lots shall be clearly defined. 7.2 Each Trailer shall be located on each lot so that there is a side lot setback of 3 metres from the side lotline (10 feet); provided that where trailers on adjacent lots are parked end to end, the clearance between them shall be at least 3 metres. 7.3 Each lot shall front on an interior driveway which shall be at least 3 metres in width where one-way traffic only is permitted, or 6 metres in width where two-way traffic is permitted. Such driveways shall be reasonably smooth and treated to control dust adequately and must support fire department vehicles. 7.4 There shall be at least one parking space for automobiles for each lot, that shall be at least 3 metres wide and 6 metres long. 7.5 The location of every trailer shall be subject to the following minimum set-backs: a) 15 metres from any service building located within the trailer camp; b) subject to paragraph 7.5(c), 4.5 metres from any adjoining property line; c) Where a residential building is located on land that abuts a boundary of the land on which the trailer camp is located, no lot shall be less than 30 metres from such boundary unless buffering satisfactory to the Municipality is provided and maintained by the operator. d) 15 metres from the boundary of all public roads or highways; e) 23 metres from the centre line of any watercourse, or 23 metres from an embankment, the slope of which is greater than 30 degrees from horizontal. 7.6 The maximum density of lots shall be 38 lots per net hectare. For the purpose of this provision, net hectare shall mean the land available for the location of lots excluding recreation areas, open space areas, service areas and all land which is susceptible to flooding or is otherwise unsuitable for the establishment of lots. , II '" , , I iI' ,I I! 11 I II -f' II I II II 'I II II Ii Ii II " II " iI II I II II ii' II 11 :i II " , , II ii II " H Ii :1 " i1 II ii u , :1 II i! '\ 'I Ii , I II ;) ,I !I I I , :1 i jl II II " II ! . -6- 8. OPERATING REOUIREMENTS 8.1 Every operator shall keep a register which shall be available for inspection at all times by the By-law Enforcement Officer. The register shall contain the following information: a) The name and address of each registrant; b) The make, model, licence number and year of the motor vehicle operated by each registrant; c) The Province or State issuing such licence; d) The date of arrival and departure of each registrant. 8.2 An operator of a trailer camp shall have in attendance on a 24 hour basis during its operation at least one adult employee conversant with the operation of the trailer camp who is in charge. 8.3 An operator shall maintain all sewage disposal facilities within the trailer camp in a sanitary condition and in accordance with any directions which may be given by the Ministry of the Environment and the Health Unit. 8.4 An operator shall keep all buildings, equipment, facilities and furniture in the camp in good repair and in a clean, sanitary condition. 8.5 An operator shall ensure adequately heated during reasonably required. that the all service buildings are season in which heat is 8.6 An operator shall maintain interior driveways to a standard that allows reasonable and uninterrupted access to all lots within a trailer camp during the summer season from and including March 15th to November 1st, inclusive. An operator shall further maintain interior driveways to a standard that allows reasonable and uninterrupted access to all lots occupied during the winter season from and including November 15th to March 14th of the subsequent year. 8.7 An operator shall ensure that no person shall deposit or discharge any solid waste or refuse of any kind in or about a trailer camp except in a covered garbage container. 8.8 An operator shall ensure that no person shall deposit or discharge any liquid waste at any location other than a location approved by the Health Unit. 8.9 An operator shall attach, in a permanent manner, a clearly visible, distinguishing number or name to each lot and service building. 8.10 An operator shall ensure that no person or persons in charge of any dog, cat or other pet animal shall permit such animal to run at large or commit any nuisance within the limits of the trailer camp. 8.11 Trailers on lots within a trailer camp which are occupied during the winter season, shall be occupied on a temporary basis and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, during the winter season, trailers are not to be occupied by any person or persons for more than 14 days in total in any month during the winter season. 8.12 Each trailer camp shall have a sewage disposal system approved by the Ministry of the Environment. II I i I I , i. I I I -7- II I I 8.13 Adequate lighting shall be provided and maintained for all service buildings. II -- I 8.14 ~n operator shall provide such fire extinguishing equipment as J.s required to satisfy all by-laws and the laws of the Province of ontario with respect thereto and shall be in force within the Municipality and the province of ontario from time to time and all such equipment shall be kept in good working order. II II 8.15 Convenience establishments of a commercial nature, except for coin operated laundry; dry cleaning establishments; and small convenience type retail grocery stores accessory to the trailer camp use and an integral part of the trailer camp are not permitted within a trailer camp. 9. ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES , , II II II Ii !I II it !I II :1 II II II II i1 il ii 11 " I! II II II 9.1 The By-law Enforcement Officer shall from time to time inspect trailer camps to ensure that they are being operated in accordance with this By-law and any plan and agreement upon which basis the licence has been issued. Where, in the Officer's opinion, a trailer camp is not being operated in accordance therewith, the Officer shall issue a notice to the operator as the Officer deems necessary to remedy any default. The operator shall comply with said notice. upon the operator's failure to do so, in addition to any other penalty prescribed herein, the Municipality may revoke the operator's licence. 9.2 Every person who contravenes any provision of this By-law is guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine in the amount to be determined pursuant to the Provincial Offences Act R.S.O. 1990, Chapter P.33, and every such fine is recoverable under the provincial Offences Act. 10. GENERAL 1.1 This By-law shall come into force on the date that it is finally passed by Council and shall apply to all trailer camps operated within the Municipality as of the date passed. 10.2 By-Law No. 92-78 of the Council of The Corporation of the Township of Oro-Medonte is hereby repealed. READ a first and second time this 6th day of April , 1994. READ a third time and finally passed this 6th day of April 1994. 'I THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF ORO-MEDONTE ~ DEPUTY MAYOR , /:/'PAAJ IAN BEARD ); ~ . A "'p' A J2j e-1Ldfb h "";9<- atERK DARLENE SHOEBRIDGE