Chap. 443.—An ACT to regulate the operation of trailer camps and trailer parks
and the parking of trailers, in certain counties of the State, and to impose pen-
alties for violations of the provisions of this act. [H B 480]

Approved April 6, 1942

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

Section 1. No person, firm or corporation shall operate or conduct
any trailer camp or trailer park, as hereinafter defined, in any county
adjoining any county in this State having a density of population in excess
of one thousand per square mile, according to the last preceding United
States census, without first obtaining a permit and license issued by the
board of supervisors or other governing body of such county, or such
officer of said county as might be designated by said board, which permit
may be obtained upon satisfactory evidence that the applicant is a proper
person to receive the same, and that the applicant has complied with all
regulations and restrictions set up in any county ordinance affecting the
same, and any such permit or license so obtained may be revoked at any
time by the board, body or agency by which it was issued, upon good and
sufficient cause being shown for said revocation.

Section 2. Definitions—For the purposes of this act, a “trailer”
shall mean any vehicle used or maintained for use as a conveyance upon
highways, so designed and so constructed as to permit occupancy thereot
as a temporary dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons. A
“trailer park” or “trailer camp” shall mean any site, lot, field or tract of
land upon which is located one or more trailers, or is held out for the
location of any trailer, and shall include any building, structure, tent,
vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the equipment
for such park. A “trailer lot” shall mean a unit of land used or intended
to be used by one trailer.

Section 3. It shall be unlawful within the limits of any such county
for any person to park any trailer on any street, alley, highway or other
public place in said county, except in a trailer park which has been
approved and permitted in said county, and for which the operator thereof
has obtained a permit or license in accordance with the provisions of this
act, except, however, that one trailer may be parked or stored in an
improved enclosed garage or accessory building, or on any lot or plot of
land, provided, however, that no living quarters shall be maintained or
any business practiced while such trailer is so parked or stored.

Section 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed as exempting any
trailer park or trailer camp operator from the payment of any license or
tax imposed by existing law, and the board of supervisors, or other gov-
erning body of any such county, as hereinabove described, is hereby au-
thorized to impose an annual county license on the operator or owner of
any such trailer park or trailer camp of not less than five dollars ($5.00)
nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) per trailer lot used or in-
tended to be used as such, the license so imposed by the board of supervis-
ors or other governing body on such trailer park or trailer park operators
to be uniform in its application, and the amount thereof to be fixed by an
ordinance duly adopted by said board or other governing body.

Section 5. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision
of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than
five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense.

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