ARTICLE XV. - TOURIST CAMPS AND TRAILER PARKING SITES
Part of the Code of Ordinances of Narragansett, RI.
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Footnotes:
--- (19) --- State Law reference— Licensing of recreational facilities, G.L. 1956, § 23-21-1 et seq.
Sec. 14-486. - Definitions.#
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Tent or trailer means any tent, temporary structure, house-car or automobile trailer, used for, or adaptable for use as, living quarters.
Tourist camp or parking site means any place where two or more tents or trailers are located or any premises designated or intended for the purpose of supplying the public with locations for two or more tents or trailers.
Unit means any section of ground in any tourist camp or parking site, used or designed for use as the location of a single tent or trailer.
(Code 1986, § 12-321)
Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.
Sec. 14-487. - License.#
(a)
Required; application.
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or maintain, or to permit the establishment or maintenance of, a tourist camp or trailer parking site upon any property owned or controlled by him in the town unless there exists a valid license therefor, granted by the town council and existing in compliance with the provisions of this article.
(2)
The application for such license shall be accompanied by plans of the proposed or existing tourist camp, showing the location of all buildings, driveways, unit layouts, toilet facilities, bath, laundry facilities, slop sinks and other improvements. Such license may be granted to anyone meeting the requirements in a complete and proper manner in the discretion of the town council.
(b)
Fee. An annual license fee for the maintenance and operation of a tourist camp or trailer parking site shall be charged at the rate of $1.00 for each unit.
(c)
Revocation; suspension. All licenses to maintain and operate tourist camps or trailer parking sites may be revoked or suspended in the discretion of the town council for violation of applicable law after notice to the licensee and an opportunity to be heard. Failure or refusal on the part of any operator or manager of any tourist camp or trailer parking site to reasonably and promptly comply with the order or direction of the chief of police, the chief of the fire department, the health department or the town engineer in any matters which properly are within the scope of the duties of any of the town officers shall be deemed sufficient cause for revocation or suspension of such camp or parking site operator's or management's license to operate.
(Code 1986, §§ 12-322—12-324)
Sec. 14-488. - Restrictions on location.#
No tourist camp or trailer parking site shall be permitted to be located upon any land, park or beach owned or controlled by the town except on such portions of the land, park or beach as shall be especially provided for the same.
(Code 1986, § 12-325)
Sec. 14-489. - Density requirements; exception.#
(a)
No unit in any tourist camp or trailer parking site shall contain less than 750 square feet of land, and no such unit shall be permitted to be occupied by more than one tent or trailer.
(b)
The provisions of this section, however, shall not be construed to prohibit any property owner, residing upon his land, from accommodating the automobile trailers of nonpaying guests, nor shall they be so constructed so as to prevent any property owner from erecting, subject to any properly applicable ordinance of the town, overnight cabins.
(Code 1986, § 12-326)
Sec. 14-490. - Public safety, peace and health requirements.#
Whenever in any tourist camp or trailer parking site the management wilfully or negligently allows and permits a condition to exist, wherein in the discretion of the chief of police, the public peace or public morals are adversely affected, or in the discretion of the chief of the fire department the public safety is endangered from an unusual fire risk; or in the discretion of the health department officials the public health is menaced; or in the discretion of the town engineer, the public safety is endangered by reason of the existence of electrical or mechanical hazards, the chief of police in his own discretion or on recommendation of any of the above-mentioned officials shall notify the management of such tourist camp or trailer parking site to promptly remedy such condition, suspend the license of such camp or parking site to operate, pending future action of the town council. Whenever such action is taken by the chief of police he or such other town officer as may be concerned shall forthwith communicate to the several members of the town council, in writing, the action they have taken and their reasons therefor.
(Code 1986, § 12-327)
Sec. 14-491. - Sanitary equipment.#
The operator or management of every tourist camp shall, for each ten units, or fraction thereof contained in the camp, provide one toilet as sanitary equipment and facilities. Toilet and bath facilities shall be separately maintained for each sex and shall be so constructed and located as to ensure complete privacy. The collection of garbage shall be provided for in a manner approved by the department of health.
(Code 1986, § 12-328)
Sec. 14-492. - Register of guests.#
The operator or management of every tourist camp or trailer parking site shall maintain a suitable register, in which all persons renting or occupying space in the same shall inscribe his name, home address and the registration number of any motor vehicle that they shall have in their possession in or about the camp. The record shall be open to the inspection of any member of the police department or other proper officials upon demand.
(Code 1986, § 12-329)
Sec. 14-493. - Lighting.#
Every tourist camp or trailer parking site shall be adequately and properly lighted by electricity in such manner as shall be directed by the town.
(Code 1986, § 12-330)