Chap. 256.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing body
of any county to adopt ordinances requiring licenses from and imposing license
taxes upon trailer camps in such county, and to enforce the provisions of such
ordinances by appropriate penalties. [H B 433]

Approved March 18, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. The board of supervisors or other governing body of
any county in this State is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt
appropriate ordinances requiring a license to be obtained by and imposing
a license tax upon every person, firm, corporation and association who
or which operates in such county a trailer camp as herein defined. Such
ordinance may prescribe the conditions under which such license may be
obtained, the period for which it shall be effective, which period may be
a full year or any part thereof with lower charges for licenses for portions
of a year than are prescribed for annual licenses, and the tax to be paid
for such license. The amount of the tax imposed may be based upon the
maximum number of trailers which are permitted by such license to be
parked or placed or accommodated at such camp at any one time. Such
ordinance may prescribe penalties for violation of its provisions, to be
imposed by the court trying the case.

Section 2, For the purposes of this act, a “trailer” shall mean any
vehicle used or constructed for use as a conveyance upon highways, so
designed and so constructed as to permit occupancy thereof as a dwelling
or sleeping place for one or more persons. A “trailer camp” shall mean
any site, lot, field or tract of land upon which is located one or more
trailers, or which is held out for the location of any trailer.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.