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Many members of the RPTIA have been producing and marketing a unit to RV Parks and resorts as a limited feature camp trailer to be used as a "bare bones" rental unit. This product, although similar to a Recreational Park Trailer typically includes only minimal electrical service with lights

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and receptacles, room for sleeping (usually bunk beds), minimal space for equipment storage, perhaps a table and chairs, but without any plumbing, lavatory or kitchen equipment required by the ANSI A119.5 Standard.

These units are typically 10- 12 feet in width, and may include a porch. They are much smaller than a traditional Recreational Park Trailer's 400 square feet - usually about 200-300 square feet. The units provide the parks with easy to maintain rental units requiring only a quick sweep of a broom to make them ready for the next camping family. 

The A119.5 Standard could be revised to allow this new product as a type of Recreational Park Trailer thereby permitting these units to be titled as vehicles and classified to allow their use in RV parks under the same rules that apply to Recreational Park Trailers. Currently, the Recreational Camping Trailers are not classified as RVs nor have they been regulated or subject to any recognized safety requirements and some local units of government are expressing the concern that these units must be treated as modular building units, thus making them subject to local permits, real property taxation and installation inspections.