CHAPTER 592

An Act to require licenses of and to tmpose a trailer tax upon the opera-
tion of trailer camps and trailer parks and the parking of trailers,
and to provide a penalty for violations.

[H 654]

Approved April 3, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. The governing body of any political subdivision in this State is
authorized to levy, and to provide for the assessment and collection of,
license taxes upon the operation of trailer camps and trailer parks and the
parking of trailers.
§ 2. Whenever a license is required by ordinance no person, firm or
corporation shall operate or conduct any trailer camp or trailer park, as
hereinafter defined, in any political subdivision without first obtaining a
license issued by the governing body of such political subdivision, or such
ofticer of said political subdivision as might be designated by said governing

ody.

§ 3. Definitions—For the purposes of this act, a “trailer” shall
mean any vehicle used or maintained for use as a conveyance upon high-
ways, so designed and so constructed as to permit occupancy thereof 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.

. Whenever a license is required by ordinance it shall be unlawful
within the limits of any such political subdivision for any person to park
any trailer on any street, alley, highway or other public place in said
political subdivision, except in a trailer park for which the operator
thereof has obtained a 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. Nothing in
this section shall be construed so as to prevent or prohibit a trailer being
temporarily parked on a city street if permitted by the other ordinances
of said city.

§ 5. 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 governing body of any such political sub-
division is hereby authorized to impose an annual license on the operator
or owner of any such trailer park or trailer camp of not less than five
dollars nor more than fifty dollars per trailer lot used or intended to be
used as such, the license so imposed by the 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 governing

ody.

§ 6. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this
section or of any ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more tha
five hundred dollars for each offense. |
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.