O-1987-1533-A - actual date passed 10/28/1996

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Ordinance 1533-A continul Page 9 e management purposes the term "manufactured home" also includes park trailers, travel trailers, and other similar vehicles placed on a site for greater than 180 consecutive days. For insurance purposes the term "manufactured home" does not include park trailers, travel trailers, and other similar vehicles, nor does it include modular homes. MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION - means a parcel of land (or contiguous parcels of land) divided into two or more manufactured home lots for which the facilities serving the lots (including but not limited to concrete pads, utilities, streets and drainage) have been completed. A manufactured home park offers lots for rent or lease. A manufactured home subdivision offers lots for sale. Use of the term "Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision" pursuant to this Ordinance does not connote approval of the existence of said Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision as a lawful existing use pursuant to the City of La Porte Zoning Ordinance, Development Ordinance, or Mobile Home Park Ordinance. MEAN SEA LEVEL - means, for purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program, the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 (1973 releveling), to which base flood elevations shown on La Porte's Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced. MODULAR HOMES (INDUSTRIALIZED HOUSING) - means a dwelling that is constructed, in conformance with the Texas Manufactured Housing Standards Act as revosed, in one or more modules at a location other than the homesite, or is constructed utilizing one or more modular components (Le. a structural portion of said dwelling) and which is designed to be used as a permanent residence when the modular components or modules are transported to the homesite and are joined together, or are erected, and installed on a permanent foundation system, together with associated plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems. Said "modular home" shall bear the seal (as defined by said Act) of the Texas Department of Labor and Standards. For the purposes of this ordinance, a modular home bearing such seal is considered to offer resistance to flood damage equivalent to that of a site-built home constructed in accordance with the City Building Code. Pursuant to amendments to the Texas Manufactured Housing Standards Act, Modular Homes are also now referred to as "Industrialized Housing." NEW CONSTRUCTION - means, for flood plain management purposes, structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of a flood plain management regulation adopted by the City of La Porte. NEW MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION - means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of facilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed on or after the effective date of floodplain management regulations adopted by the City of La Porte. Use of the term "New Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision" pursuant to this Ordinance does not connote