Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 511 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Chapter 511-3 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARDS › Subject 511-3-2 - MASS GATHERINGS › Rule 511-3-2-.01 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
For the purpose of these rules, the term:
(a) "Adequate" means equal to what is
				required, suitable to the case or occasion, fully sufficient, proportionate,
				satisfactory;
(b) "Approved" or
				"approval" means accepted or acceptable by the Department in accordance with
				applicable regulations;
(c)
				"Chemical Privy" means a structure and necessary appurtenances for the sanitary
				disposal or storage of human wastes without the aid of water carriage and which
				relies upon a chemical such as caustic soda to disintegrate the
				excreta;
(d) "Department" means the
				Georgia Department of Public Health;
(e) "Drinking Water" means water provided or
				used for human consumption or for lavatory or culinary purposes;
(f) "Food Service Establishment" means and
				includes establishments for the preparation and serving of meals, lunches,
				short orders, sandwiches, frozen desserts, or other edible products. The term
				includes but is not limited to restaurants; coffee shops; cafeterias; short
				order cafes; luncheonettes; taverns; lunch rooms; places manufacturing,
				wholesaling, or retailing sandwiches or salads; soda fountains; institutions;
				both public and private; food carts; itinerant restaurants; industrial
				cafeterias; catering establishments; food vending machines and vehicles and
				operations connected therewith; and similar facilities by whatever name
				called;
(g) "Health Authority"
				means the Georgia Department of Public Health or a County Board of
				Health;
(h) "Individual Sewage
				Disposal System" means a sewage disposal system, other than a public or
				community sewage disposal system, serving a single building, residence or other
				facility designed or used for human occupancy or congregation. Included within
				the scope of this definition are septic tank systems and privies;
(i) "Mass Gathering" means any event likely
				to attract five thousand (5,000) or more persons and to continue for fifteen
				(15) consecutive or more hours;
(j)
				"Permit" means written authorization to a person by the Health Authority to
				operate a mass gathering;
(k)
				"Person" means the State or any agency or institution therof, any municipality,
				political subdivision, public or private corporation, individual, partnership,
				association, or other entity, and includes any officer or governing or managing
				body of any municipality, political subdivision, or public or private
				corporation;
(l) "Privy" means a
				structure and necessary appurtenances for the sanitary disposal or storage of
				human wastes without the aid of water carriage. Included in the scope of the
				definition are pit privies, vault privies, chemical privies, pit-type latrines,
				portable toilets, and other facilities that may be approved by the
				Department;
(m) "Public or
				Community Sewerage System" means any sewage treatment works, pipe lines or
				conduits, pumping stations and force mains and all other constructions,
				devices, and appliances appurtenant thereto, designed for treating or
				conducting sewage for ultimate disposal into lakes, streams, or other bodies of
				surface water;
(n) "Public or
				Community Water Supply System" means any water supply system regardless of
				ownership or operation, serving or intended to serve water for domestic use of
				human consumption to the public or any segment therof, except an individual
				water supply system serving a single family dwelling. They are classified as
				follows:
1. Class I. Water Supply Systems
				supplying water from any surface water sources;
2. Class II. Water Supply Systems supplying
				finished water from ground water sources to more than twenty-five (25) housing
				units or mobile units, to schools, to State owned facilities, and to industrial
				operations employing more than one hundred (100) persons;
3. Class III. All other water supply systems
				supplying finished water from ground water sources, including but not limited
				to, tourist accommodations, food service establishments, and commercial
				establishments.