<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 42-90. - Definitions.</div>
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               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:
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               <span class="ital">Accessory or utility building</span> means a building which is used for storage or other secondary use by the mobile home
               resident.
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               <span class="ital">Authorization in writing</span> means written permission for a home to be occupied.
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               <span class="ital">Current prevailing standards</span> means those standards as established and defined by pertinent approving federal,
               state, and local agencies and currently applied in the county.
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               <span class="ital">Developer</span> means any person, firm, trust, partnership, association or corporation engaged in
               development, or proposed development, of a mobile home park.
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               <span class="ital">Enforcement officer</span> means the person or persons appointed by the board of commissioners to enforce the
               provisions of this article.
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               <span class="ital">Environmental health specialist</span> means an agent of the state department of environment and natural resources authorized
               to enforce the on-site sewage rules and laws.
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               <span class="ital">Excessive vegetation growth</span> means vegetation growth that is high and dense enough to allow rodents to harbor
               or to make rodent runs, including but not limited to dense growth higher than six
               inches, and sparse grass and weed growth higher than 12 inches.
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               <span class="ital">Florida room</span> means a room designed to be added on, or an extension of a mobile home.
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               <span class="ital">Mobile home</span> means a residential dwelling unit, designed for transportation after fabrication
               on its own wheels or on flatbeds, or other trailers, and arriving at the site where
               it is to be occupied as a dwelling unit complete and ready for occupancy except for
               minor incidental unpacking and assembly operations including, but not limited to,
               location on jacks or other temporary or permanent foundation, and connection to utilities.
               Travel trailers, campers and recreational vehicles shall not be considered mobile
               homes. For the purposes of this article, the term "mobile home" shall be inclusive
               of the term "manufactured home."
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               <span class="ital">Mobile home lot</span> means a piece of land within a mobile home park where:
               
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                  (1)
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                  The boundaries are delineated in accordance with this article; and
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                  (2)
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                  It is designed and improved in accordance with this article to accommodate a single
                  mobile home.
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               <span class="ital">Mobile home park</span> means and includes any place, area, tract or parcel of land maintained, offered,
               or used for the parking of three or more mobile homes used or intended to be used
               for dwelling or sleeping purposes.
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               <span class="ital">Mobile home park plan</span> means a plan of a proposed mobile home park prepared by the developer in accordance
               with division 3 of this article, and presented to the board of commissioners for approval.
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               <span class="ital">Mobile home stand or pad</span> means that portion of the mobile home lot designed for and used as the area occupied
               by the mobile home proper.
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               <span class="ital">Operator</span> means the owner or a person designated by the owner that is responsible for the operation
               of a mobile home park.
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               <span class="ital">Parcel</span> means a piece of land whose boundaries have been described or delimited by a legal
               instrument or map recorded in the county register of deeds. The term "parcel" shall
               be inclusive of the term "tract," "lot," or "plot."
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               <span class="ital">Recreational vehicle</span> means a vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, with permanent wheels,
               designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation
               use, towed or driven, and having a width not in excess of eight feet.
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               <span class="ital">Recreational vehicle campground</span> means and includes any parcel of land maintained, offered or used for providing utilities
               for recreational vehicles.
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               <span class="ital">Shall,</span> when used in this article, is intended to indicate a mandatory requirement.
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               <span class="ital">Water system</span> means sources of water, wells, storage tanks, mains, laterals, service taps to each
               lot, blow-off valves, meters and water treatment devices.
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               <span class="ital">Yard area</span> means that portion of land immediately surrounding a manufactured home that is set
               aside for the individual use of the manufactured home resident.
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               (Ord. of 4-21-1998, art. III; Ord. of 11-17-2009, art. III; Ord. of 1-17-2017(1))
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