(A) No person shall cause development to occur within any portion of a recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, combined park-camp, or temporary park-camp that is located within a one-hundred-year flood plain in a municipal corporation unless the person first obtains a permit therefor from the municipal corporation in accordance with the flood plain management ordinance of the municipal corporation.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 3729.04

  • Combined park-camp: means any tract of land upon which a combination of five or more self-contained recreational vehicles or portable camping units are placed and includes any roadway, building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as part of the park facilities. See Ohio Code 3729.01
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Development: means any artificial change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, without limitation, buildings or structures, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials, and the construction, expansion, or substantial alteration of a recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, or combined park-camp, for which plan review is required under division (A) of section 3729. See Ohio Code 3729.01
  • Director of health: means the director of health or the director's authorized representative. See Ohio Code 3729.01
  • Flood plain: means the area adjoining any river, stream, watercourse, or lake that has been or may be covered by flood water. See Ohio Code 3729.01
  • One-hundred-year flood: means a flood having a one per cent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. See Ohio Code 3729.01
  • Operator: means the person who has responsible charge of a recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, combined park-camp, or temporary park-camp and who is licensed under this chapter. See Ohio Code 3729.01
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Recreation camp: means any tract of land upon which five or more portable camping units are placed and includes any roadway, building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the facilities of the camp. See Ohio Code 3729.01
  • Recreational vehicle park: means any tract of land used for parking five or more self-contained recreational vehicles and includes any roadway, building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as part of the park facilities and any tract of land that is subdivided for lease or other contract of the individual lots for the express or implied purpose of placing self-contained recreational vehicles for recreation, vacation, or business purposes. See Ohio Code 3729.01
  • Temporary park-camp: means any tract of land used for a period not to exceed a total of twenty-one days per calendar year for the purpose of parking five or more recreational vehicles, dependent recreational vehicles, or portable camping units, or any combination thereof, for one or more periods of time that do not exceed seven consecutive days or parts thereof. See Ohio Code 3729.01

(B) No person shall cause development to occur within any portion of a recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, combined park-camp, or temporary park-camp that is located within a one-hundred-year flood plain in an unincorporated area unless the person first obtains a permit therefor from the board of county commissioners of the county in which the development is to occur in accordance with the flood plain management resolution of the county adopted under section 307.37 of the Revised Code.

(C) If development for which a permit is required under division (A) or (B) of this section is to occur on a site where a recreational vehicle or portable camping unit is or is to be located, the owner of the recreational vehicle or portable camping unit and the operator of the recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, or combined park-camp shall jointly obtain the permit. Each of the persons to whom a permit is jointly issued is responsible for compliance with the provisions of the approved permit that are applicable to that person.

If development for which a permit is required under division (A) or (B) of this section is to occur within a temporary park-camp on a site where a recreational vehicle or portable camping unit is or is to be located, the owner of the temporary park-camp shall obtain the permit.

(D) Fees established by a municipal corporation or county for the issuance of permits under division (A) or (B) of this section are not subject to regulation by the director of health.

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