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Sec. 78-1577. - Exterior storage in R districts. <br /> In all R districts, it is the responsibility of the owner of any property, improved or unimproved, to <br /> maintain the outdoor areas; including courtyards and the like, of the property and adjacent rights-of-way <br /> in a manner that complies with the following requirements. All recreational vehicles, mobile homes, <br /> camping trailers, motor homes, pickup coaches, travel trailers, special mobile equipment, and utility <br /> trailers shall meet the requirements of this Code. Additionally, all exterior storage must comply with <br /> subdivision (6) of this section. <br /> (1) Definitions: <br /> a. Blight means a deteriorated condition, something that impairs or destroys. <br /> b. Junk means any cast-off, damaged, discarded, junked, obsolete, salvage, scrapped, <br /> unusable, worn-out or wrecked object, thing or material composed in whole or in part of <br /> asphalt, brick, carbon, cement, plastic, or other synthetic substance, fiber, glass, metal, <br /> paper, plaster, plaster of paris, rubber,terra cotta,wool, cotton, cloth,canvas, organic matter <br /> or other substance, regardless of perceived market value or requiring reconditioning in order <br /> to be used for its original purpose. <br /> c. Recreational vehicle. Mobile home and recreational vehicle shall mean and include the <br /> following definitions, and shall not include any manufactured housing unit bearing a State of <br /> Minnesota manufactured housing seal or certificate, for uses including but not limited to <br /> those listed below: <br /> 1. Camping trailer means a folding structure, mounted on wheels and designed for travel, <br /> recreation and vacation uses, also called a pop-up camper. <br /> 2. Motor home means a portable, temporary dwelling to be used for travel, recreation and <br /> vacation, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle. <br /> 3. Pickup camper means a structure designed to be mounted on a truck chassis for use <br /> as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation. <br /> 4. Travel trailer means a vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be <br /> used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, permanently <br /> identified as a travel trailer by the manufacturer of the trailer. <br /> d. Special mobile equipment means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the <br /> transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a <br /> highway, including but not limited to: ditch digging equipment, moving dollies, pump hoists <br /> and other well-drilling equipment, street sweeping vehicles, and other machinery such as <br /> asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-tractors, <br /> ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth- <br /> moving equipment. The term does not include travel trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted <br /> transit mixers, truck-mounted feed grinders, or other motor vehicles designed for the <br /> transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached. <br /> e. Utility trailer means any motorless vehicle, other than a boat trailer or personal watercraft <br /> trailer, designed for carrying of snowmobiles, motorcycles, all terrain vehicles, or property on <br /> its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle but shall not include boat trailers, a <br /> trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semitrailer combination,or an auxiliary axle on a motor vehicle <br /> which carries a portion of the weight of the motor vehicle to which it is attached. <br /> (2) [Parking regulated.] Parking of recreational vehicles, mobile homes and utility trailers shall be <br /> regulated as follows: <br /> a. It is unlawful for any person to park a mobile home or recreational vehicle upon public <br /> property for human habitation <br />