The raising, establishing or maintaining of any tent, tent house, camp trailer, trailer, storage container or recreational vehicle camper/mobile home or temporary habitation of any kind to be used or occupied as a place for storing, living or sleeping shall be forbidden in any public place in the Village or on any ground located in any district other than Light Industrial, Industrial or Planned Industrial.

Every applicant for a permit to raise, establish or maintain any tent, tent house, camp trailer or camp car, or temporary habitation of any kind to be used or occupied as a place for living or sleeping on any grounds in the Village located in a Planned Industrial, Light Industrial or Industrial Zone, shall file with the Village Clerk a verified statement setting forth the full name and residence of the owner or owners of the proposed tent, tent house, camp trailer, recreational vehicle camper/mobile home or other temporary habitation, and showing the exact proposed location thereof, and stating the facilities to be used by its occupants in connection with the proper sanitation of same, and the length of time that the applicant proposes to occupy said premises. The applicant shall be the owner of the property on which the temporary habitation is sought to be erected, and he shall affix his consent to the use proposed, together with a sworn statement that no fees or rental charge is to be made for such use.

Upon submission of the application set forth in § 248-296 above, the Building Inspector of the Village of Westbury shall certify that the proposed tent, tent house, camp trailer or recreational vehicle camper/mobile home or temporary habitation and its use complies in every respect with all of the ordinances of the Incorporated Village of Westbury, and that such tent, tent house, camp trailer, recreational vehicle camper/mobile home or other temporary habitation will not constitute or become a nuisance or otherwise dangerous or prejudicial to the life or health or public welfare and is constructed of fire-resistant material.

Trailer camps or the maintenance of more than one unit (trailer, recreational camper trailer or vehicle camper/mobile home) upon any piece of land in a single ownership is hereby prohibited, and no owner, lessee or occupant of any land in the Village shall permit the use of his or her land in violation of this section except as set forth in § 248-295 or 248-296 herein.

Any recreational camper trailer or vehicle camper/mobile home, when not used as habitation for which a permit is required in accordance with §§ 248-296, 248-297 and 248-298 of this article, may be stored in a private garage in any residence district, by the owner or tenant of a lot, wholly within said private garage.[1]

This article shall apply to all existing tents, tent-houses, camp-trailers or recreational camper trailer or vehicle camper/mobile homes or temporary habitations located in the Village of Westbury at the date of its adoption, and any existing users of property within the Village of Westbury for temporary habitation, as defined in § 248-296 of this article, shall have a period of 15 days after this article becomes effective to conform to all provisions of this article and to make application for a permit. If no application is made within said fifteen-day period or if, after making application, a permit is refused, the existing tent, tent-house, camp-trailer or camp-car or other temporary habitation shall forthwith be removed from the premises occupied by it.