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Chapter 8C MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNiTIES AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLE COMMUNITIES Sec. 8C-1. Chapter construction. This chapter is remedial and essential to the public interest, safety, health, and welfare. This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes. It establishes minimum standards for the continued use and occupancy of all manufactured home communities and recreational vehicle communities. (Ord. No. 7641, S 2, 4-27-00) Sec. 8C-2. Definitions. Accessory building means a small, portable building or structure that mayor may not be securely attached to the ground upon which it rests. Alteration means replacing, adding, modifying, removing, or exchanging manufactured homes, recreational vehicles, or other structures, moving in a new or additional manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or other structure, changing or adding manufactured home community or recreational vehicle community plot or lot lines, and changing manufactured home community or recreational vehicle community property lines. Back end means the opposite end from the front end of the unit. Back side means the opposite side from the front side of the unit. Building Code means the Building Code, Electrical Code, Fire Code, Mechanical Code, and Plumbing Code, as adopted by the City of Irving and the Manufactured Housing Standards Act, Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. art. 5221f. Certificate of occupancy means a certificate issued by the director authorizing occupancy. City means the City of Irving. Clubhouse means a building or rooms accessible to all residents, which is used for meetings or recreational use. Commission means the building and standards commission created in the City of ~fVin9- Gode of-Civ~~anGGFiminal Gr-cHnances Chapter-8S. Current Building Code means the most recent edition of the Electrical Code, Building Code, Fire Code, Mechanical Code, and Plumbing Code, adopted by ordinance and currently in effect in the City of Irving. Dangerous manufactured home means a manufactured home or any other structure in or around which conditions exist as outlined in Chapter 8B, section 8B-26, which could possibly threaten the health, safety, or general welfare of any person. Department means the City of Irving department referred to, and its successor department or division. Director means the Director of the Department of Inspections of the City of Irving or his or her designated representative. Driveway means a private accessway leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, garage, recreational vehicle, or manufactured home. Dwelling means a structure, including a manufactured home or recreational vehicle, occupied for a residential purpose.