CHAPTER 359
An Act to amend and reenact 8§ 85-64.1, 85-64.2, 835-64.8, 85-64.4 and
$5-64.5 of the Code of Virginia providing authority for governing
bodies to impose license fees on certain trailer camps and trailers;
definitions; regulation of parking of trailers; amount and uniformity
of license taxes.

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Approved April 1, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 35-64.1, 35-64.2, 35-64.3, 85-64.4 and 35-64.5 of the Code of
Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 35-64.1. 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 individual trailers on individual lots not in trailer parks or
camps.

§ 35-64.2. 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, or park any trailer on an individual lot not in
a trailer park or camp in any political subdivision without first obtaining
a license issued by the governing body of such political subdivision, or such
officer of said political subdivision as might be designated by said governing

§ 35-64.3. For the purposes of this article, a “trailer” shall mean any
vehicle designed or 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, whether in a trailer park or camp or not.

§ 35-64.4. 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 or individual lot not in a
trailer park for which the operator thereof or other person has obtained
a license in accordance with the provisions of this article, 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.

§ 35-64.5. Nothing in this article shall be construed as exempting
any trailer park or trailer camp operator or person parking a trailer tn
an individual lot not in a trailer camp or park from the payment of any
license or tax imposed by existing law, and the governing body of any such
political subdivision is hereby authorized to impose an annual license on
the operator or owner of any such trailer park or trailer camp or person
parking a trailer in an individual lot not in a trailer camp or park of not
less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars per trailer lot used or in-
tended to be used as such, the license so imposed by the governing body on
such trailer park or trailer park operators, or person, parking a trailer in
an individual lot not in a trailer camp or park to be uniform in its applica-
tion, and the amount thereof to be fixed by an ordinance duly adopted by
said governing body. Provided, however, that if a trailer park or trailer
mp is located in an incorporated town it may be licensed or taxed here-
under only by the town tn which tt ts located. ,