Bill No. 00-09

Ordinance No. 460

ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR FIRE SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH STANDARDS FOR THE PLACEMENT OF MOBILE HOMES, MANUFACTURED HOMES AND MODULAR HOMES WITHIN THE CORPORATE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF HIGBEE, MISSOURI.

WHEREAS, the City of Higbee recognizes a need for affordable housing for low and moderate income families; and

WHEREAS, the City of Higbee would like to provide a mechanism whereby such housing could be provided in a manner that will remain consistent with the city's goals of fire protection, maintaining a safe and clean drinking water supply and maintaining the general health and safety for the residents of the city, as well as preventing public nuisances and unsafe maintenance of mobile homes, manufactured homes and modular homes.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF HIGBEE, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1: Definitions. As used in this Ordinance, the following terms shall have the meanings

indicated, unless the content quires otherwise:

  1. Manufactured Homes. A factory-built structure or structures which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or when erected on site; contains three hundred twenty or more square feet, equipped with the necessary service connections and made so as to be readily moveable as a unit or units on its own running gear and designed to be used as a dwelling unit or units with or without a permanent foundation. The phrase "without a permanent foundation" indicates that the support system is constructed with the intent that the manufactured home placed thereon may be moved from time to time at the convenience of the owner.
  2. Modular unit. A transportable building unit designed to be used by itself or to be incorporated with similar units at a point-of-use into a modular structure to be used for residential, commercial, educational or industrial purposes. This definition shall not apply to structures under six hundred fifty square feet used temporarily and exclusively for construction site office purposes.
  3. Park Trailer. A modular type unit built on a single chassis mounted on wheels, designed primarily as temporary living quarters for seasonal or destination camping and having a gross trailer area not exceeding four hundred square feet and not less than two hundred forty square feet in the setup mode.
  4. Person. A individual, partnership, corporation or other legal entity.
  5. Recreational vehicle. A vehicular-type unit primarily designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, that either has its own motive power, or is mounted on or towed by another vehicle.
  6. Seal. A device, label or insignia issued by the Missouri Public Service Commission, U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development, or its agent to be displayed on the exterior of the manufactured home, recreational vehicle or modular unit to evidence compliance with the code.
  7. Set-up. The operations performed at the occupancy site which renders a manufactured home or modular unit fit for habitation, which operations include, but are not limited to, moving, blocking, leveling, supporting and assembling multiple or expandable units.
  8. Mobile Home. A transportable, factory-built home designed to be used as a residential dwelling and built prior to the enactment of the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which became effective June 15, 1976.

Section 2: Temporary Dwellings. No person may use or occupy a recreational vehicle or park trailer in the corporate limits of the City of Higbee as a temporary living quarters for a period exceeding thirty days in any given calendar year. Occupation of a park trailer or recreational vehicle on a temporary basis requires that the unit be connected to city utilities.

Section 3: Construction Standards

  1. All manufactured homes and modular units must be constructed according to the standards established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for constructing such structures and shall hear a seal issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as required by the Revised Statutes of Missouri, Chapter 700 prior to any such structure being set up in the corporate limits of the City of Higbee.