Chap. 255.—An ACT to protect the public health and to this end to provide for
the regulation of trailer camps, to require sanitary conditions to be maintained,
to provide for the issuance and revocation of permits, to provide for the
enforcement of the act and the making of certain rules and regulations and
to prohibit certain acts and impose certain penalties. {S 46

Approved March 16, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. As used in this act, the term “trailer camp”
means any plot of ground upon which is located or which is held
out for the location of any camp for any motor vehicle or trailer
which is used or is intended to be used for business, living or sleep-
ing purposes and which is, or may be transported from one place to
another whether motive power or other means be required.

Section 2. Every trailer camp shall, in order to protect the
public health, comfort, safety and general welfare, be subject to
inspection, regulation and control as to cleanliness and general
sanitation.

Section 3. The owner or operator of any such trailer camp
shall provide not less than one thousand square feet of ground,
exclusive of the ground underneath such vehicle or vehicles for
each space so rented.

Section 4. All plats of ground in a trailer camp shall be well
drained and kept in a clean and orderly manner by the owner or
operator thereof.

Section 5. The owner or operator of any such camp shall pro-
vide a conveniently located approved water supply, and an ap-
proved sewage disposal system; adequate toilet fixtures conven-
iently located to all plots rented or to be rented shall be provided.
Tightly covered leak-proof garbage containers with an adequate
garbage collection service shall be provided by the owner or opera-
tor of such camp for each plot in use. No owner or operator of a
trailer camp shall allow a nuisance to be created or allow a nuisance
to continue to exist in his camp.

Section 6. The State Board of Health shall enforce the pro-
visions of this act. In order to protect the public health, the State
Board of Health shall make all necessary rules and regulations
governing sanitary conditions in and about trailer camps, in
accordance with the provisions of this act. The State Board of
Health shall provide for inspection of trailer camps and the issuance
and revocation of permits therefor. Any person denied a permit or
whose permit has been revoked for cause may appeal the Commis-
sioner’s action. The appeal shall be heard de novo by the circuit
court of the county or corporation court of the city in which the
alleged violation occurred. :

Nothing contained in this act, however, shall in any way limit
the power of any city to prescribe by ordinance for the regulation
of sanitary conditions in trailer camps located therein.

Section 7. In order to carry out the provisions of this act,
free access to any trailer camp shall be granted the State Health
Commissioner or any officer or agent of the State Board of Health
during all reasonable hours.

Section 8. No trailer camp shall operate on or after January
one, nineteen hundred forty-nine, without first securing a permit
to operate such trailer camp from the State Board of Health.

Section 9. Failure to comply with any provision of this act
or any rule or regulation formulated within the scope of this act
shall constitute a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be
punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars, or revocation of permit, or both.

Section 10. Any person denied a permit or whose permit has
been revoked for cause may appeal the Commissioner’s action.
The appeal shall be heard de novo by the circuit court of the county
or corporation court of the city in which the alleged violation
occurred or by the judge thereof in vacation, and shall be heard
without intervention of jury.