No person may locate, or cause to be located, a mobile home park, travel trailer park, or campground other than in accordance with this subchapter.

   Application for a mobile home park or a travel trailer park and campground shall be made to the Building Inspector. The application will be reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Board, Building Inspector, and County Health Department. The application for a permit shall be accompanied by a plat and shall indicate the following when provided:

   (A)   General layout and dimensions.

   (B)   Roadways, walkways, drainage easements.

   (C)   Mobile home or travel trailer lots.

   (D)   All structures including washrooms, laundries, and utilities.

   (E)   Source of water and water distribution approved by town.

   (A)   Every mobile home park shall be located on a site of not less than three acres.

   (B)   Each mobile home lot shall contain a minimum area of 3,500 square feet; however, in no case shall the area occupied by structures exceed 40% of the total lot area.

   (C)   Every mobile home park shall comply with the Federal Insurance Administration, HUD Flood Regulations Chapter X, Part 1910 adopted by the town, and Chapter 154, Flood Damage Prevention.

   (D)   Every mobile home park shall be graded so as to prevent the accumulation or ponding of water and all surface water shall drain in such a way that will not endanger any water supply.

   (E)   The street system shall be designed to provide convenient circulation. It shall include no dead-end streets longer than 500 feet with the closed end terminating in a cul-de-sac with a minimum graded or paved diameter of 80 feet.

   (F)   Pavement or graded width of streets shall be 20 feet for two-way streets; for developments with less than 20 lots one-way streets will be permitted with minimum paved or graded width of 14 feet.

   (G)   Grades should be sufficient to insure adequate drainage (generally greater than 0.5%).

   (H)   Street intersections should be at right angles where possible but in no case less than 75 degrees. When a centerline offset occurs at an intersection, the distance between centerlines of the two intersecting streets shall not be less than 250 feet.

   (I)   All streets shall be designed and constructed in accordance with North Carolina Department of Transportation minimum construction standards for local residential subdivision roads.

   (J)   A buffer strip ten feet wide planted in grass with shrubs or trees shall be reserved as open space between any mobile home park and adjoining residential district.

   (K)   Every mobile home park and related structure shall comply with the State Building, Plumbing, Electrical, Heating, and Air Conditioning Codes and any other applicable regulations of the town.

   (L)   Each mobile home lot shall be provided with and shall be connected to sanitary sewerage and water supply systems approved by the County Health Department. Where more than eight mobile homes are attached to a septic tank then the Division of Environmental Management must approve the system. ('85 Code, § 15-7.3) (Ord. 33, passed 10-5-81; Am. Ord. 4-84, passed 2-6-84; Am. Ord. 4-90, passed 4-2-9) Penalty, see § 157.999

   Nonconforming mobile home parks shall comply with §§ 157.100 through 157.104 of this chapter.

   It shall be the responsibility of the mobile home park owner to keep an accurate register containing a record of all mobile homes, owners, and occupants of the mobile home park. The register shall contain the following information:

   (A)   Name and address of owner and each occupant of a mobile home.

   (B)   Location of mobile home in the park.

   (C)   Date of entering the mobile home park.

   (D)   Date of leasing the mobile home park.

   (A)   Every travel trailer park and campground shall be located on a site of not less than three acres.

   (B)   Each travel trailer and campground lot shall be of sufficient size, however, in no case shall the ratio of lot area occupied by structures to total lot area exceed 40%.

   (C)   Every travel trailer park and campground and its street system shall be graded so as to prevent ponding of water.

   (D)   The street system shall provide convenient circulation. Dead-end streets longer than 500 feet shall not be permitted. The closed end of any dead-end street shall have a cul-de-sac with a minimum diameter of 60 feet.

   (E)   Roadway widths shall be a minimum of 18 feet for two-way circulation and a minimum of 12 feet for one-way circulation.

   (F)   Grades of all streets shall be sufficient to insure adequate surface drainage.

   (G)   All streets shall have a smooth, hard, dense surface that is durable and well-drained under normal use and weather conditions.

   (H)   A buffer strip ten feet wide planted in grass with shrubs or trees shall be reserved as open space between any travel trailer park and adjoining residential district.

   (I)   Every travel trailer in the park and campground and related structure shall comply with the State Building, Plumbing, Electrical, Heating, and Air Conditioning Codes, and any other applicable regulation of the town.

   (J)   All toilet, shower, lavatory, and laundry facilities shall be provided and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition and kept in good repair at all times.

   (K)   Each park and campground shall provide at least one sewage dumping station approved by the County Health Department. All sewage wastes from each park, including wastes from toilets, showers, lavatories, and laundry facilities shall be piped into the park's sewage disposal system.

   (L)   The travel trailer park and campground owner is responsible for refuse collection and all garbage and refuse shall be stored in suitable watertight and fly-tight receptacles.

   (M)   It shall be unlawful for a person to park or store a mobile home in a travel trailer park or campground. However, one mobile home may be allowed within a travel trailer park to be used as an office and/or residence of person responsible for the operation and maintenance of the travel trailer park and campground.