The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Accessory structure means any awning, cabana, ramada, storage cabinet, windbreak, carport or porch established for use by the occupants of a manufactured/mobile home.

Approved means in conformance with applicable government statutes, regulations, codes and ordinances and with recognized national standards of technical or scientific organizations, and in conformance with the rules and regulations pertaining to manufactured/mobile home and travel trailer parks promulgated by the state department of health.

Dependent manufactured/mobile home means a manufactured/mobile home that has no toilet, lavatory or bathing facilities and is dependent upon a service building for toilet, lavatory and bathing facilities. Travel trailers, campers, motor homes and camper buses shall be considered dependent manufactured/mobile homes.

Health department means the Arkansas state department of health or the office of the Carroll County Sanitarian.

Independent manufactured/mobile home means a manufactured/mobile home that has toilet, lavatory and bathing facilities.

Manufactured/mobile home means a movable or re-locatable dwelling unit, transported on its running gear to a manufactured/mobile home lot or other building site, and installed either with or without a foundation.

Manufactured/mobile home lot means a designated portion of a manufactured/mobile home park designed for the placement of a single manufactured/mobile home and accessory structures for the exclusive use of the occupants, and exclusive of streets, walks and other common use areas in a manufactured/mobile home park, exclusive of county, city or town streets, alleys, walks or other public easements, and exclusive of adjacent private properties.

Manufactured/mobile home park means that area or site upon which is located two (2) or more independent manufactured/mobile homes maintained, occupied or used for human habitation for periods exceeding twenty-four (24) hours.

Manufactured/mobile home stand means that part of an individual manufactured/mobile home lot used for the placement of the manufactured/mobile home.

Sewage means a combination of liquid wastes, which may include chemical, house wastes, human excreta, animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and other solids in suspension or solution, and which is discharged from a dwelling, building or other establishment.

(Ord. No. 1012, § 1, 1-8-1977)

A.

Permit required. It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, alter, operate, extend or use any manufactured/mobile home park within the city without first having obtained a permit from the building inspector.

B.

Application information. All applications for permits shall first be submitted to the planning commission and shall contain the following information:

1.

Name and address of the applicant.

2.

Location and legal description of the manufactured/mobile home park.

3.

Complete engineering plans and specifications of the proposed park showing, but not limited to, the following:

a.

The area and dimensions of the tract of land.

b.

The number, location and size of all manufactured/mobile home lots.

c.

The location and width of roadways and walkways.

d.

The location of water and sewer lines and riser pipes.

e.

Plans and specifications of the water supply and refuse and sewage disposal facilities.

f.

Plans and specifications of all buildings constructed or to be constructed within the manufactured/mobile home park, including storage facilities.

g.

The location of each fire hydrant.

h.

The location and details of lighting and electrical systems.

i.

General landscaping plan, showing mature trees and specifications for fencing.

j.

Such further information as shall be reasonably requested by the building inspector or planning commission in order to comply with standards of safety, health and general welfare of the city.

C.

Application fee. Each application for a permit shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) which shall be refunded if the plan is not approved. If the plan is approved, the applicant shall promptly obtain all occupation licenses required for such manufactured/mobile home park by the zoning ordinance.

D.

Submission of plan. Application for permission for a manufactured/mobile home park must be made in writing to the planning commission, which on approval will submit the proposed plan to the city council. The council shall consider the application at a regular meeting and if approved, shall submit the plan to the building inspector for issuance of a permit. An individual whose plan is not approved by the planning commission may appeal the commission's decision to the council for consideration at a regular meeting.

E.

Compliance or revocation or permit. The person to whom a manufactured/mobile home park license is issued shall at all times operate the park in compliance with this chapter and regulations established by county and state health departments. The permit shall be conspicuously posted in the office or on the premises of the manufactured/mobile home park at all times. A permit may be revoked by the building inspector or duly authorized health department official upon his finding that the requirements of this chapter or of a statute or regulation of a higher authority have not been met, after the following procedure has been followed:

1.

Written notice of the specific violation is mailed to the manufactured/mobile home park owner, via certified mail, return receipt requested; and

2.

A reasonable time period to be provided in the written notice in which the violation is to be corrected or compliance be met, to be not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days from receipt of the written notice.

F.

If the owner of the manufactured/mobile home park does not correct the violation within the provided time period, such owner may be prosecuted for the commission of a misdemeanor.

G.

Fines and penalties. If the owner of the mobile home park does not correct the violation within the provided time period, such owner may be prosecuted for the alleged commission of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, may be fined in any sum not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), and each day such violation shall have existed may be deemed to be a separate offense.

(Ord. No. 1012, § 2.05, 1-8-1977)

A.

Location of units. No person shall park or locate any independent manufactured/mobile home, or use an independent manufactured/mobile home as a permanent or temporary dwelling or for indefinite periods of time, unless the independent manufactured/mobile home is located in a licensed manufactured/mobile home park, except as specifically provided in this subsection.

Manufactured/mobile home parks shall be permitted only in C-2 and I zoning districts.

Subsection (a) of Chapter 70-4 is amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the first paragraph thereof: Manufactured homes, as defined in Act 624 of 2003 (A.C.A. § 14-54-1602) and A.C.A. § 20-25-1602, shall also be permitted in District R-3: Multi-family residential.

1.

A camping or vacation trailer or dependent manufactured/mobile home not exceeding twenty-one (21) feet in length may be stored in the rear yard of any lot on which a permanent building is located, provided that no living quarters shall be maintained nor any business conducted while such trailer or manufactured/mobile home is so parked or stored.

2.

A manufactured/mobile home may be used for office or residential purposes on a temporary basis during construction or remodeling activities in connection with a use permitted on the lot, provided that the manufactured/mobile home complies with all building regulations of the city and is removed from the site within ten (10) days after the construction or remodeling has been completed.

B.

Site requirements.

1.

Each manufactured/mobile home park shall have a minimum area of three (3) acres.

2.

The condition of soil, groundwater level, drainage and topography shall not create hazards to the property or the health or the safety of the occupants. The site shall be so located so that its drainage will not constitute an unreasonable hazard or nuisance to persons, property or water supply in the immediate vicinity. Potential health hazards shall be eliminated before any construction is begun. Manufactured/mobile home park sites shall not be exposed to objectionable smoke, noise, odors or other adverse influences; and no portion subject to unpredictable and/or sudden flooding, subsidence or erosion shall be used for any purpose which would expose persons or property to hazards.

C.

Utilities. An independent manufactured/mobile home shall not be occupied for dwelling purposes in a manufactured/mobile home park unless it is properly placed on a conforming manufactured/mobile home lot and connected to all utility services including water, sewer and electrical. Utility service connections shall be located on the lot served.

D.

Manufactured/mobile home spaces and street requirements.

1.

Independent manufactured/mobile homes shall be separated from each other and all other buildings and structures by at least fifteen (15) feet in all directions.

2.

An accessory structure which has an area exceeding twenty-five (25) square feet and has a roof or opaque top shall, for purposes of spacing requirements, be considered to be part of the manufactured/mobile home.

3.

A minimum of ten (10) feet shall be provided from any point of the manufactured/mobile home to adjacent access roads serving more than one (1) manufactured/mobile home space.

4.

Minimum frontage of any manufactured/mobile home lot shall be not less than forty (40) feet for a single-width unit and fifty (50) feet for a double-width unit.

5.

Manufactured/mobile home lots shall not be less than three thousand five hundred (3,500) square feet in area.

6.

Off-street parking for not less than two (2) vehicles shall be provided on each manufactured/mobile home lot.

7.

Each manufactured/mobile home lot shall have unobstructed access to a manufactured/mobile home park street.

8.

No part of any manufactured/mobile home park shall be used for non-residential purposes, except such uses that are required for the direct benefit and well-being of the park residents and for the management and maintenance of the park. Permissible are units housing office space and laundry and storage facilities, provided that there is no commercial advertisement of these laundry and storage facilities nor access by the general public to such facilities.

9.

Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed as prohibiting the sale of an independent manufactured/mobile home located on a manufactured/mobile home lot and connected to the pertinent facilities.

10.

All independent manufactured/mobile homes shall be located at least twenty-five (25) feet from all manufactured/mobile home park boundary lines. All manufactured/mobile home parks adjacent to other residential uses, or to commercial or industrial uses or highways or other roadways, shall have screening, such as opaque fencing or landscaping along the property boundary separating the manufactured/mobile home park from such adjacent land uses.

11.

In all manufactured/mobile home parks accommodating or designed to accommodate twenty-five (25) or more independent manufactured/mobile homes, there shall be one (1) or more recreation areas which shall be reasonably accessible to all park residents, free from traffic hazards, and of a minimum size based upon one hundred (100) square feet per lot. No outdoor recreation area shall contain less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet.

(Ord. No. 1012, § 3, 1-8-1977; Ord. No. 1076, § 1, 5-17-1979; Ord. No. 1984, § 2, 2-14-2005)

Wherever an individual independent manufactured/mobile home or a manufactured/mobile home park was legally in existence in the city and was in compliance with previous regulations, such independent manufactured/mobile home or manufactured/mobile home park shall be considered to be legally nonconforming to this chapter; and no further compliance will be sought, except any changes, additions, subtractions, exterior remodeling or relocation shall be subject to conformance with this chapter. Where any independent manufactured/mobile home is located individually at a site outside a manufactured/mobile home park, the independent manufactured/mobile home shall not be replaced. In addition, if the use of such independent manufactured/mobile home is discontinued for a period of six (6) consecutive months or more, the independent manufactured/mobile home shall be removed from such site by the owner not more than thirty (30) days thereafter. Nothing in this section shall preclude the building inspector or duly authorized health authority from taking remedial action against the owners of independent manufactured/mobile homes or manufactured/mobile home parks currently in violation of previous regulations or in violation of any county, state and/or federal statutes, ordinance, regulations and/or standards regarding manufactured/mobile homes or manufactured/mobile home parks, or contrary to recognized national standards of technical and scientific organizations.

(Ord. No. 1012, § 4, 1-8-1977)