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Section 2. Trailer Coach Parks
No person shall proceed to establish a trailer coach park, or proceed with the installation of municipal services therein unless and until the requirements hereinafter provided have been fully complied with.
Section 3. Site Approval
Before action by the Board of Health on any application for a license to construct, maintain, alter and/or operate any trailer
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court park within the Town of West Bridgewater a committee con- sisting of at least two members of the Board of Health, the Board of Selectmen and of the Planning Board shall, within a reasonable time after receipt of the application and required plans, inspect the proposed site to determine whether the site and the lay-out, as pre- sented, complies with the requirements of this By-Law, the Board of Health, the Water Commissioners, the Chief of the Fire Depart- ment, the Laws of the Commonwealth and is in the best interests of the Town.
Section 4. License Required
No person shall conduct, control, manage or operate, directly or indirectly, any trailer coach park in the town unless he is the holder of a license granted by the Board of Health in conformity with Chapter 140 of the General Laws, Section 32A, B.
Section 5. Application for License
Any person applying for a license to establish and operate a trailer coach park shall, in making application for same, file with the Board of Health, hereinafter referred to as the Board, properly pre- pared plans, drawn to scale, and shall include an itemized estimate of the cost together with sufficient information for the Inspection Committee to form a clear basis for its final action. Such informa- tion shall include a plan and profile of the area and indicate swamps, water bodies, stone walls, fences, large trees, together with:
a. The name and address of the applicant.
b. The location and legal description of the trailer court park.
c. A complete plan of the trailer court park, showing compli- ance with all applicable provisions of this By-Law and regulations promulgated thereunder.
d. Location, boundaries, north point, date and scale.
e. Name and address of record owner, developer and engineer or surveyor.
f. Names of all abuttors as they appear in the most recent tax list.
g. Lines of existing and proposed ways, trailer coach spaces, easements, proposed names of ways, public areas, service buildings and other proposed structures within the trailer coach park.
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h. Sufficient data to determine the location, direction, width and length of ways, trailer coach space lines, trailer coach park boundary line and to establish these lines upon the ground.
i. Location of all permanent monuments properly identified as to whether existing or proposed.
j. Location, name and present width of streets bounding, approaching or within reasonable proximity of proposed trailer coach park.
k. Proposed lay-out of storm drainage, water supply and sewage disposal systems.
1. Suitable space to record the action and signature of members of the Board (or officially authorized person).
m. Plan and Profile scale shall be at a horizontal scale of one (1) inch equals forty (40) feet and at a vertical scale of one (1) inch equals four (4) feet. (All elevations shall refer to town datum).
Section 6. Public Hearing
a. Before final approval of an application to establish a trailer coach park is given, a Public Hearing shall be held by the Board of Health. Notice of such hearing shall be given by the Board, at the expense of the applicant, at least 10 days prior thereto by an adver- tisement in an official publication of, or in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of West Bridgewater. A copy of said notice shall be sent by certified or registered mail to the applicant and to all owners of land abutting upon the proposed trailer coach park as appearing in the most recent tax list.
b. Following the Hearing and tentative approval of a proposed trailer coach park, the application and plans thereof shall be re- ferred to the State Board of Health for their approval.
Section 7. Notice of Approval and Requirements for License
a. Final approval of such applications shall be by vote, copies of which shall be certified and filed with the Town Clerk and sent by certified or registered mail to the applicant. If the Board disap- proves or requires changes before approval of the application or plan thereof, it shall state in its vote the reason for such action.
b. After the plans of the trailer coach park have been endorsed, the applicant shall furnish the Board with three (3) prints thereof (Boards of Health, Selectmen and the Water Commissioners).
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Section 8.
The Board of Health is hereby authorized and directed to make inspections to determine the condition of trailer courts, located within the town of West Bridgewater, in order that they may per- form their duty of safeguarding the health and safety of occupants of trailer coach parks and of the general public. The Board shall have the power to enter at reasonable daylight hours, upon any private or public property, for the purpose of inspecting and investi- gating conditions relating to the enforcement of this regulation or of regulations promulgated thereunder, and may suspend the license of any trailer coach park owner or operator for violations of this By-Law and/or any applicable Laws of the Commonwealth.
The Board of Health shall have the power to inspect the regis- ter containing the records of all trailer coach parks and occupants using the park. Chapter 140, General Laws, Section 32 I.
Section 9. General Requirements
a. The minimum lot area on which a Trailer Coach Park may be located shall not be less than four (4) acres.
b. The trailer coach park shall be located on a well-drained site, and shall be so located that its drainage will not endanger any water supply. All such trailer coach parks shall be in areas free from marshes, swamps, or other potential breeding places for insects or rodents.
c. The area of the trailer coach park shall be large enough to accommodate:
1. The designed number of trailer coach spaces.
2. The necessary streets and roadways.
3. Parking areas for motor vehicles.
4. Service areas and recreational areas.
d. All ways leading into and within said park and all service buildings shall be adequately lighted, as required and approved by the Inspection Committee.
e. All trailer coach spaces shall face on an improved way within the park having an unobstructed access to a public highway.
f. The minimum area that may be assigned and/or occupied by a trailer coach within a trailer coach park shall not be less than
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five thousand (5,000) square feet with a frontage of not less than fifty (50) feet, nor shall the space so assigned and/or occupied allow less than twenty (20) foot setback from the front, rear and side lines; nor shall any space be assigned and/or occupied by a trailer for use as living quarters nearer than one hundred fifty (150) feet to any Public or Town Way, or to any way dedicated to Public use, nor nearer than one hundred fifty (150) feet to any existing dwelling. All measurements shall be taken from the nearest point of afore- said space occupied by a trailer coach to the nearest point of afore- said ways and/or dwelling existing at the adoption of this By-Law.
g. Except for dependent trailer coaches, occupying spaces as hereinafter provided, all trailer coaches must be connected to water and sewer.
h. Electricity. An electrical outlet supplying at least 110 volts shall be provided for each trailer-coach space. The installation shall comply with all State and local electrical codes and ordinances. Such electrical outlets shall be weatherproof. No power line shall be permitted to lie on the ground, or to be suspended less than 18 feet above the ground.
i. Adequate and approved central facilities shall be provided including lavatories, toilets, showers and laundry facilities.
j. Recreational Areas. At least one hundred (100) square feet per trailer coach space shall be made available in one or more areas for recreational uses. These areas shall be so located as to be free from traffic hazards.
Section 10. Sanitation
a. Except in the case of dependent, transient trailers permitted under Section 13, Exceptions ... all trailers located within a trailer coach park shall be equipped with water-flushed toilets, connected directly with the sewage disposal system.
b. All sewage disposal shall, in every instance, comply with the requirements of the Board of Health and the Laws of the Commonwealth.
Section 11. Drainage
Adequate and approved disposal of surface water shall be pro- vided. Catch basins shall be built in conformity with specifications of the Selectmen on both sides of the roadway on continuous grades at intervals of not more than four hundred (400) feet, at low points
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and sags in the roadway and near the corners of the roadway at intersecting ways.
Section 12. Water Pipes
Water pipes and related equipment, such as hydrants, valves, and all other appurtenances, shall be constructed to serve all trailer coach spaces on each way in the park, in conformity with specifica- tions of the Water Commissioners.
Section 12. Roads or Ways
a. All ways servicing or within a trailer coach park shall be so designed that, in the opinion of the inspecting committee, they will provide safe vehicular travel and unrestricted access to Police and Fire Department vehicles.
b. The minimum width of the way leading from a Public Way to the site of the trailer coach park shall not be less than forty (40) feet, twenty-six (26) feet of which shall be an improved roadway, four and one half (41/2) feet to be used as an improved sidewalk on at least one side of the way, with a two and one half (21/2) foot grass strip between the roadway and the sidewalk.
c. The minimum width of the ways within trailer coach parks shall not be less than twenty-six (26) feet of improved roadway.
d. The entire area of all ways shall be completely cleared, except for trees within the grass strip reserved for shade purposes. All loam and other yielding material shall be removed from the roadway area of each way and replaced with suitable material.
e. All roadways shall be brought to a finished grade, as spec- ified, with at least the top twelve (12) inches consisting of well- compacted, binding gravel to a width of at least twenty-six (26) feet and centered in the roadway area.
f. At the discretion of the Inspection Committee the com- pleted gravel surface may be treated for the full width of the road- way with one application of asphalt or tar, as specified by the Select- men, at the rate of not less than 7/10 gallon per square yard of area of roadway, and after being subjected to traffic for a period of at least thirty days, a second application at the rate of one-quarter (1/4) gallon per square yard shall be used as a seal coat. The initial and seal applications shall each be covered with sand evenly distributed;
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or by the use of bituminous concrete Mass. D.P.W. type I mix laid in two coats totaling 21/2 inches after compaction with a 10-12 ton roller; or their equivalent.
Section 13. Sidewalks
Sidewalks shall not be less than four and one-half (41/2) feet in width and shall be constructed on at least one side of the way lead- ing from a public way to the trailer coach park site and shall have an improved finish, of either hot bituminous mix or of concrete, laid in accordance with the specifications of the Board of Selectmen.
Section 14. Exceptions
Notwithstanding all other provisions of this By-Law, an area may be established, by itself for transient trailer coaches (use limited to not over 30 days within a 90 day period.)
Spaces so reserved for transient use shall have a frontage of not less than twenty-five (25) feet and a set back of not less than ten (10) feet from the front and rear lot lines, and may be used by dependent as well as independent transient trailers.
Section 15. Service Buildings
a. In trailer coach parks restricted to serving non-transient, independent trailer coaches only, the owner or operator shall notify the Board of Health of such fact by a signed letter. The Board of Health upon receipt of such letter, verified by inspection, shall no- tify the owner or operator by signed letter approving minimum toilet, lavatory and bathing facilities for each service building. Should the owner or operator desire at a later date to service transient and/or dependent trailers, said owner or operator shall notify the Board of Health, by signed letter, of his intent.
b. Each trailer court shall be provided with one or more service buildings adequately equipped with flush-type fixtures. No service building shall contain less than one toilet, one lavatory, and one shower for each sex, a laundry tray and a slop sink or floor drains. These minimum fixtures will be adequate to serve 10 or less de- pendent trailer coaches and 20 or less independent trailer coaches. Additional fixtures shall be provided in the ratios given below.
c. A lavatory for each sex shall be provided for every 10 de- pendent trailer coaches or fractional part thereof. A bath or shower for each sex shall be provided for every 20 dependent trailer coaches or fractional part thereof.
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d. Toilet facilities for women shall consist of at least one flush- type water closet for every 10 dependent trailer coaches or fractional part thereof. Toilet facilities for men shall consist of one flush-type closet or urinal for every 10 dependent trailer coaches or fractional part thereof. Urinals may be substituted for not more than 1/3 of the toilet fixtures required for men. Toilet facilities shall be main- tained readily accessible to all tenants at all times.
e. Laundry facilities shall be provided in the ratio of one unit for every 20 trailer coach spaces or fractional part thereof. Adequate drying space or other clothes drying facilities shall be provided convenient to the laundry facilities to accommodate the laundry of trailer court occupants.
f. A slop sink shall be provided in the service building unless the floor of each room in the service building is equipped with a floor drain. The slop sink shall be equipped with hot and cold water faucets over the bowl and shall be located in a room of the service building separate from toilet facilities.
g. Service building shall meet the following requirements:
1. Be centrally located and not more than 200 feet from any dependent trailer coach or not more than 350 feet from any independent trailer coach, and a distance of at least 30 feet from any trailer coach;
2. Be of permanent construction and be provided with ade- quate and approved light, heat and ventilation;
3. The interior to be of easily cleanable, moisture resistant material to permit frequent washing and cleaning;
4. All rooms shall be well ventilated with all openings screened;
5. All rooms of new construction shall be equipped with properly trapped drains. Floors shall be of concrete, tile or similar impervious material. When the service build- ing is of frame construction, all walls, including partitions, shall be made of impervious material up to a minimum height of 12 inches;
6. Each bath or shower shall be in a private compartment and shall have a floor area of at least 9 square feet. Mats, grids and walkways should be constructed of easily clean- able, non-absorbent material and shall be properly
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cleaned and maintained in good repair. Mats designed for single service use are satisfactory, provided they are discarded after each use;
7. Each water closet shall be in private compartment which is open at the base at least one foot from the floor, and which is at least 30 inches in clear width. The walls of the compartment shall not be built any closer than one foot from ceiling of the room;
8. Toilet facilities for men and women shall be separated if in the same building by a sound resistant wall and shall be clearly marked as to sex.
9. Floors in service buildings shall be thoroughly washed and disinfected at least once a day and as often as needed to maintain them in a clean, sanitary condition. Disin- fection shall be accomplished after thorough washing by the use of a chlorine compound or other material in strengths approved by the Board of Health.
Section 16. Water Supply
a. An accessible, adequate, safe, and potable supply of water shall be provided in each trailer court, capable of furnishing a mini- mum of 125 gallons per day per trailer coach space. Where a public supply of water of such quality is available, connection shall be made thereto and its supply shall be used exclusively. The develop- ment of an independent water supply to serve the trailer court shall be made only after express approval has been granted by the Board of Health and approved by the Water Commissioners.
b. The water system of the trailer court shall be connected by pipes to all buildings and all trailer coach spaces.
c. The water distribution system shall be constructed from pipe of cast iron, wrought iron, copper, asbestos cement, or other materials specifically approved for such use. The piping shall have sufficient capacity and size to supply a minimum pressure of 15 pounds per square inch at all times at each coach outlet.
d. An individual water connection shall be provided at an appropriate location at each trailer coach space, consisting of a riser terminating at least 4 inches above the ground surface, with two 3/4 inch valved outlets. The outlets shall be threaded so that a screwed connection using flexible tubing may be made to the coach's water
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piping system with one, leaving the other for use as a hose connec- tion for lawn watering and fire control. The ground surface around the riser pipe should be graded so as to divert surface drainage away from the connection. The riser pipe shall be encased in a pipe at least 6 inches in diameter, with the intervening space filled with an insulating material to protect it from freezing. An insulated cover shall be provided that will encase both valve outlets, but which will not prevent connection to the trailer during cold freezing weather. When the coach space is not occupied during cold weather, the outlets shall be protected from freezing, either by a heater tape con- nected to the court's electrical system, or by draining of the pipes.
e. Where an individual water system is used to serve the trailer court, with water obtained from wells, the wells shall have been ap- proved by the Board of Health, and shall have been drilled or driven. Springs or other sources of supply shall not be used except after approval by the Board of Health.
f. Every well shall be located and constructed in such a manner that neither underground nor surface contamination will reach the water supply from any source. A minimum distance of 150 feet shall be maintained between the water supply and any cesspool. A minimum distance of 100 feet shall be maintained between the water supply and any other possible source of contamination, except that sewers or pipes through which sewage may back up shall be located at least 50 feet from any well or water suction pipeline. Where such sewers or pipes are specially constructed to provide ade- quate safeguards, and when specifically authorized by the Board of Health, such sewers or pipes through which sewage may back up may be closer than 50 feet, but not less than 30 feet, from a well.
g. No well-casings, pumps, pumping machinery, or suction pipes shall be located in any pit, room or space extending below ground level, nor in any room or space above ground which is walled in or otherwise enclosed, unless such rooms, whether above or below ground, have free drainage by gravity to the surface of the ground. The floor of rooms above ground shall be at least six inches above the ground's surface. All floors shall be watertight, and sloped from the pump pedestal to the drain. The pedestal shall be 12 inches above the floor.
h. All water-storage reservoirs shall be watertight, and con- structed of impervious material; all overflows and vents of such
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reservoirs shall be effectively screened. Open reservoirs are pro- hibited. Manholes shall be constructed with overlapping covers, so as to prevent the entrance of contaminated material. Overflow pipes from a reservoir shall not connect to any pipe in which sewage or polluted water may back up.
i. Underground stop-and waste-cocks shall not be installed on any connection.
Section 17. Sewage
a. All plumbing in the trailer court shall comply with State and local plumbing laws and regulations.
b. Each trailer-coach space shall be provided with at least a 3-inch sewer connection. The sewer connection shall be provided with suitable fittings, so that a watertight connection can be made between the trailer-coach drain and the sewer connection. Such individual coach connections shall be so constructed that they can be closed when not linked to a coach, and shall be trapped in such a manner as to maintain them in an odor-free condition.
c. Sewer lines shall be constructed with the approval of the Board of Health and in accordance with the recommendations of said Board. All sewer lines shall be adequately vented, and shall be laid with sufficient earth cover to prevent breakage from traffic.
d. Each coach space shall be equipped with a 4-inch sewer connection, properly trapped below frost line and extended to at least 4 inches above the surface of the ground. The sewer connec- tion shall be protected by a concrete collar at least 4 inches deep and extending 12 inches from the connection in all directions. The sewer connection shall be provided with suitable fittings so as to permit a watertight junction with the trailer outlet. Each sewer connection shall be capped or plugged gas tight when not in use.
e. The connection between the coach and the sewer shall be made with a flexible hose, which may be provided either by the trailer owner or by the court owner. The sewer outlet shall consist of a 4 inch quarter-bend. A cap or plug shall be provided which shall be fastened by chain or other device to the concrete collar surrounding the sewer connection, to prevent its removal from the site while the sewer connection is in use.
f. All sewer lines shall be laid in trenches separated at least 10 feet horizontally from any drinking-water supply line under pressure
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at a grade which will insure a velocity of 2 feet per second when the sewer is flowing half-full. The minimum grade per 100 feet, to maintain a velocity of 2 feet per second when flowing half-full, for 4-inch sewers is 15 inches; for 6-inch sewers, 8 inches; for 8-inch sewers, 5 inches; and for 10-inch sewers, 31/2 inches. The size of sewer lines shall be determined as follows: Soil pipe at least 4 inches in diameter shall be used on lines serving 30 trailers or less; pipe at least 6 inches in diameter shall be used on lines serving 100 trailers or less; pipe at least 8 inches in diameter shall be used on lines serv- ing 400 trailers or less.
g. All joints in sewer line shall be watertight. All sewer con- nections and manholes shall be so constructed as to prevent surface and ground water from entering the sanitary sewers. Each sewer lateral serving a row of coaches shall be vented at its upper end and shall be relief vented at intervals of not more than 100 feet or por- tion thereof. No vent shall be less than 4 inches in diameter. All vent pipes shall be located above ground level. All vent pipes shall be strapped and supported by at least the equivalent of a 4 x 4 wood post securely anchored in the ground. A cleanout shall be provided at the upper end of sewer laterals, and at intervals of not more than 100 feet in straight runs. Cleanouts shall also be located at any point in the line where a deviation from a straight line occurs. Cleanouts shall be accessible and brought to grade. The cleanout shall be protected at the ground surface by a concrete collar at least 4 inches deep and extended at least 12 inches from cleanout in all directions. Each cleanout shall be capped or plugged gastight when not in use.
h. Where the sewer lines of the trailer court are not connected to a public sewer, a sewage-treatment plant approved by the Board of Health shall be provided. The design of such sewage-treatment plant shall be based on the ultimate maximum capacity of the trailer court. Sewage-treatment plant effluents shall not be dis- charged into any waters of the State except with prior approval of the appropriate State authority and the local Board of Health. The disposal plant shall be located where it will not create a nuisance or health hazard to the court or to the owner or occupants of any adjacent property. The approval of the Board of Health shall be obtained on the type of treatment proposed and on the design of the disposal plant prior to construction.
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Section 18. Refuse Disposal
a. The storage, collection, and disposal of refuse in the court shall be so managed as to create no health hazards, rodent harbor- age, insect-breeding areas, accident hazards, or air pollution.
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