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This guide is designed to be a valuable resource for anyone involved in the camping and RVing industry, including professionals, consumers, and government officials. By understanding and using these terms correctly, we can all work together to ensure clear communication and understanding of the industry.
A recreational facility that offers temporary or seasonal access to the vacationing and traveling public;
Campsite Occupancy: A Campsite is equipped for tents, recreational vehicles, ready to camp or temporary roofed accommodations for a set rate.
Intent of Use: A Campground is used for recreational purposes only and does not offer site use agreements for the purpose of principal/permanent residential occupancy.
Services within a Campground: A Campground may offer a variety of services to guests that support the recreational nature of their business and facilitate on site, non-use storage of recreational vehicles.
Shall mean a vehicle designed to provide temporary living, sleeping, or eating accommodation for travel, vacation, seasonal camping, or recreational use and designed to be driven, towed, transported, or relocated from time to time whether or not the vehicle is jacked up or its running gear is removed, and with a size as defined by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA). A recreational vehicle shall not be used as the principal place of residence of the occupant. A recreational vehicle shall include units further described as a motor home, travel trailer, fifth wheel trailer, destination trailer, truck camper, tent trailer or park model trailer, and similar mobile vehicles but excludes a “Manufactured Home” as described herein and/or a “Tiny Home”.
A recreational vehicle that is self-propelled which includes vehicles described as “Class A”, Class C” and “Class B” and which are manufactured to the CSA Z-240 RV series or NFPA 1192 standard.
Recreational Vehicle mounted on wheels and designed to be towed by a motorized vehicle that is constructed with a roof and sidewalls made of rigid materials and which are manufactured to the CSA Z-240 RV series or NFPA 1192 standard.
Recreational Vehicle mounted on wheels and designed to be towed by a motorized vehicle by means of a towing mechanism that is mounted above or forward of the tow vehicle’s rear axle and which is manufactured to the CSA Z-240 RV series or NFPA 1192 standard.
Recreational Vehicle designed to be loaded on and unloaded from the bed of a pickup truck and manufactured to the CSA Z-240 RV series or NFPA 1192 standard.
Recreational Vehicle mounted on wheels and designed to be towed by a motorized vehicle that is constructed with a collapsible roof and collapsible partial sidewalls that unfold and extend in the set-up mode and fold back up for travel and which are manufactured to the CSA Z-240 RV series or NFPA 1192 standard.
A Recreational Vehicle that meets the following criteria:
a) it is built on a single chassis mounted on wheels;
b) it is designed to facilitate relocation from time to time;
c) it is designed as living quarters for seasonal camping and may be connected to those utilities necessary for operation of installed fixtures and appliances; and
d) it has a gross floor area, not exceeding 50 m2 when in the set-up mode, and has a width greater than 2.6 m in the transit mode.
A Park Model Trailer is manufactured in accordance with CSA Z-241 Park Model Trailers series of standards.
Means a transportable, single or multiple-section single-family dwelling of residential, permanent occupancy, and conforming with CSA Z-240 MH Series of standards at the time of manufacture. It is ready for occupancy upon completion of set-up in accordance with the required factory-recommended installation details.
Manufactured buildings intended for residential occupancy must comply with all appropriate Code requirements. Only those building components that are designed and constructed in manufacturing plants in accordance with the specified standards (CSA Z-240.2.1, CSA Z-240.8.1 and CSA A-277) are deemed to comply with the Code. Building components designed and constructed outside the place of manufacture (e.g. mason chimneys, basement stairs, foundations etc.) must conform to the requirements of the Code. The code also applies to the site installation of manufactured buildings in terms of tie downs, spatial seperation, grading, plumbing connections to street services, etc.
