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(h) (G) "Permittee" means any person to whom a temporary per-
mit is issued to maintain or operate a Mobile Home Park under the pro-
visions of this subtitle.

(i) (H) "Mobile Home" is a portable housing unit designed and con-
structed for permanent residential purposes, without a permanent foun-
dation, which unit has a provision for connection with water, sewer,
electricity and other public utilities; it may contain parts which may be
folded, collapsed or telescoped when being towed and expanded later to
provide additional cubic capacity, or it may consist of two or more sepa-
rately towable or portable components designed and constructed to be
joined into one interval INTEGRAL housing unit and capable of subse-
quent separation into components for repeated towing. Travel trailers,
motorized homes, pickup coaches and camping trailers shall not be mobile
homes for the purposes of this subtitle.

(I) "EXISTING MOBILE HOME PARK" IS ANY MOBILE HOME
PARK WHICH IS IN EXISTENCE ON THE DATE OF THE ENACT-
MENT OF THIS SUBTITLE.

16.401—Licenses and Temporary Permits

(a)    It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or operate within
the limits of Howard County, Maryland, any Mobile Home Park unless
such person shall first obtain from the licensing authority a license therefor,
except that the maintenance or operation of a Mobile Home Park in exist-
ence on the effective date of this Act may be continued under a temporary
permit for such period of time and under such conditions as are hereinafter
prescribed. A temporary permit, upon written request therefor, shall be
issued by the licensing authority for every Mobile Home Park in existence
upon the effective date of this Act, permitting the park to be maintained
and operated during the period ending one (1) year after the effective
date of this Act, without being subject to the provisions of this Act,
except such of the provisions as are expressly applicable to permittees.

(b)    All such parks in existence on the effective date of this Act shall,
upon the termination of one (1) year, obtain such license, and in all other
respects comply fully with the requirements of this Section except that
the licensing authority shall MAY, upon application of the park operator,
waive such requirements that require prohibitive reconstruction costs if
such waiver does not adversely affect the sanitation requirements of the
Board of Health or create or permit to continue any hazard to the welfare
and health of the community and the occupants of the park.

(c)    The term of the temporary permit shall be extended upon
written request, if (1) the permittee shall have filed application for a
license in conformity with Section 16.403 of this Act within one hundred
eighty (180) days after the effective date of this Act, (2) the permittee
is of good moral character and the park SITE PLAN plans and specifi-
cations accompanying the application for a license comply with all pro-
visions of this Act and all other applicable statutes and regulations, (3)
the permittee shall have diligently endeavored to make the existing park
conform fully to the plans and specifications submitted with the applica-
tion, and (4) failure to make the existing park conform fully to such
plans and specifications shall have been due to causes beyond the con-
trol of the permittee.

(d) Any license granted under the provisions of this Section shall
be subject to revocation or suspension for cause after hearing by the