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CHAPTER V – BUILDING, LAND USE & REGULATIONS
ORDINANCE 503 PARKING, LOCATION AND USE OF TRAILER HOUSES AND
MOBILE HOMES ...............................................................................................................1
Section 503.01: DEFINITIONS ...........................................................................................1
Section 503.02: PROHIBITIONS .......................................................................................1
Section 503.03: LICENSING REQUIRED .........................................................................1
Section 503.04: SEPARABILITY ......................................................................................1
Section 503.05: PENALTY ................................................................................................2
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CHAPTER V – BUILDING, LAND USE & REGULATIONS
ORDINANCE 503 PARKING, LOCATION AND USE OF TRAILER HOUSES AND
MOBILE HOMES
Section 503.01: DEFINITIONS.
Subd. 1: Trailer Home and/or Mobile Home. Shall mean and include any structure used
for sleeping, living, business or storage purposes, which is or has been equipped with wheels for
the transportation thereof from place to place, and the fact that the wheels have been removed
therefrom or a foundation of whatever nature, placed thereunder shall not exclude it therefrom,
excepting a device used exclusively upon a railroad track operated by a railroad company.
Subd. 2: Person. Shall include the singular and the plural, and shall mean and include
any individual, corporation, partnership, or other association of persons.
Subd. 3: Residential Area. Shall mean any area not zoned "industrial" and any area not
specifically designated as a "trailer park" or "mobile home park".
Subd. 4: Owner. A person owning a legal interest in a "trailer home" or "mobile home",
or a tenant, bailee, user or custodian thereof, or any person entitled to possession thereof.
Subd. 5: Trailer Park and/or Mobile Home Park. Shall mean a designated area specially
designed and constructed as a mobile home or a mobile trailer facility, licensed by the State of
Minnesota, and approved by the City of St. Joseph.
Section 503.02: PROHIBITIONS.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park, or to permit the parking of any trailer house or
mobile home owned by him or under his control on any street, alley, or other public place or in
any residential area, as above defined, within the City, except that the parking of only one
unoccupied trailer house in an accessory private garage building or in the rear yard of any
privately owned yard is hereby permitted provided no living quarters be maintained, or any
business practiced at said trailer while such trailer is so parked or stored.
Section 503.03: LICENSING REQUIRED.
The owners of all trailer houses or mobile homes shall be required to pay the current
Minnesota State License fee or tax each year.
Section 503.04: SEPARABILITY. Every section, provision or part of this Ordinance is
declared separable from every other section, provision or part, and if any section, provision or
part thereof shall be declared invalid, this shall not affect any other section, provision or part.
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Section 503.05: PENALTY. Any person who violates or fails to comply with the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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