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. (a) This part applies to all parts of the state and
supersedes any ordinance enacted by any city, county, or city and
county, whether general law or chartered, applicable to this part.
Except as provided in Section 18930, the department may adopt
regulations to interpret and make specific this part and, when
adopted, the regulations shall apply to all parts of the state.
(b) Upon 30 days' written notice from the governing body to the
department, any city, county, or city and county may assume the
responsibility for the enforcement of both this part and Part 2.1
(commencing with Section 18200) and the regulations adopted pursuant
to this part following approval by the department for the assumption.
(c) The department shall adopt regulations that set forth the
conditions for assumption and may include required qualifications of
local enforcement agencies. The conditions set forth and the
qualifications required in the regulations shall relate solely to the
ability of local agencies to enforce properly this part and the
regulations adopted pursuant to this part. The regulations shall not
set forth requirements for local agencies different than those that
the state maintains for its own enforcement program. When assumption
is approved, the department shall transfer the responsibility for
enforcement to the city, county, or city and county, together with
all records of special occupancy parks within the jurisdiction of the
city, county, or city and county.
(d) (1) In the event of nonenforcement of this part or the
regulations adopted pursuant to this part by a city, county, or city
and county, the department shall enforce both this part and Part 2.1
(commencing with Section 18200) and the regulations adopted pursuant
to this part and Part 2.1 in the city, county, or city and county,
after the department has given written notice to the governing body
of the city, county, or city and county, setting forth in what
respects the city, county, or city and county has failed to discharge
its responsibility, and the city, county, or city and county has
failed to initiate corrective measures to carry out its
responsibility within 30 days of the notice.
(2) Where the department determines that the local enforcement
agency is not properly enforcing this part, the local enforcement
agency may appeal the decision to the director of the department.
(e) (1) Any city, city and county, or county may cancel its
assumption of responsibility for the enforcement of both this part
and Part 2.1 (commencing with Section 18200) by providing written
notice of cancellation to the department. The department shall assume
responsibility within 90 days after receipt of the notice.
(2) A local enforcement agency that has been approved by the
department to enforce the provisions of this chapter and cancels its
assumption of responsibility and returns enforcement to the
department under paragraph (1) shall remit to the department the fees
collected under Section 18870.2 that have not been expended pursuant
to this chapter and the regulations adopted thereunder, except that,
for fees for a permit to operate, the local enforcement agency shall
pay to the department a sum that is equal to the percentage of the
year remaining before outstanding permits to operate expire. In
addition, the local enforcement agency that relinquishes enforcement
authority to the department shall remit to the department any fees
collected pursuant to this part for permits to construct or for plan
review, or both, for which a final approval of the construction has
not yet been issued.
(f) Every city, county, or city and county shall, within its
jurisdiction, enforce this part and the regulations adopted pursuant
to this part, as they relate to recreational vehicles and to
accessory buildings or structures located in both of the following
areas: (1) inside of parks where the city, county, or city and county
has assumed responsibility for enforcement of both this part and
Part 2.1 (commencing with Section 18200), and (2) outside of parks.
(g) This part shall not prevent local authorities of any city,
county, or city and county, within the reasonable exercise of their
police powers, from doing any of the following:
(1) Establishing, subject to the requirements of Sections 65852.3
and 65852.7 of the Government Code, certain zones for special
occupancy parks within the city, county, or city and county, as
defined in the zoning ordinance, or from adopting rules and
regulations by ordinance or resolution prescribing park perimeter
walls or enclosures on public street frontage, signs, access, and
vehicle parking or from prescribing the prohibition of certain uses
for special occupancy parks.
(2) Regulating the construction and use of equipment and
facilities located outside of a recreational vehicle used to supply
gas, water, or electricity thereto, except facilities owned,
operated, and maintained by a public utility, or to dispose of sewage
or other waste therefrom when the facilities are located outside a
park for which a permit is required by this part or the regulations
adopted pursuant thereto.
(3) Requiring a permit to use a recreational vehicle outside a
park for which a permit is required by this part or by regulations
adopted pursuant thereto, and require a fee therefor by local
ordinance commensurate with the cost of enforcing this part and local
ordinance with reference to the use of recreational vehicles, which
permit may be refused or revoked if the use violates this part or
Part 2 (commencing with Section 18000), any regulations adopted
pursuant thereto, or any local ordinance applicable to that use or
Part 2.1 (commencing with Section 18200).
(h) A city, including a charter city, county, or city and county,
shall not require a new park to include a clubhouse. Recreational
facilities, recreational areas, accessory structures, or improvements
may be required only to the extent that the facilities or
improvements are required in other types of similar recreational
facilities, if any, in the city, county, or city and county.