Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 2a - Personal Data › J1 Visa Waiver Program › Section 19a-2a-29 - Family campgrounds

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Purpose.
The intent of this section is to provide minimum design
				and construction requirements to ensure a reasonable degree of public health
				and safety for occupants using facilities supplied by family campgrounds which
				offer temporary living sites for use by recreational vehicles, camping
				trailers, and other camping units.
(b)
Definitions.
(1) "Atmospheric vacuum breaker" means a
				mechanical device that automatically air vents a pipeline to prevent
				backsiphonage;
(2) "Camping
				trailer" means a vehicular camping unit mounted on wheels and constructed with
				collapsible sidewalls that fold for towing by another vehicle and unfold at the
				camping unit site to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping
				or travel;
(3) "Camping unit" means
				a portable structure, shelter, or vehicle having a gross trailer area not
				exceeding 400 square feet designed and intended for occupancy by persons
				engaged in recreational camping. Camping units include but are not limited to
				recreational vehicles, recreational park trailers, camping cabins, housekeeping
				cabins, tents, tepees, yurts and other rental accommodations that have no hard
				electrical wiring and no permanent drainage plumbing;
(4) "Camping unit site" means a specific area
				within a family campground set aside for use by a camping unit;
(5) "Department" means the Connecticut
				Department of Public Health;
(6)
				"Family campground " means any location, property, parcel or tract of land
				under the control of any person, organization, or municipality that contains
				two or more camping unit sites for use by the public or members of an
				organization for overnight stays;
(7) "Fifth wheel trailer" means a vehicular
				camping unit, mounted on wheels, designed to provide temporary living quarters
				for recreation, camping or travel, of such size or weight as not to require
				special highway movement permit(s), and designed to be towed by a motorized
				vehicle that contains a towing mechanism above or forward of the tow vehicle's
				rear axle;
(8) "Gross trailer area"
				means the total plan area measured to the maximum horizontal projection of
				exterior walls in the setup mode;
(9) "Motor home" means a vehicular camping
				unit designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping,
				or travel use built on or permanently attached to a self-propelled motor
				vehicle chassis or on a chassis cab or van that is an integral part of the
				completed vehicle;
(10) "Primitive
				campground" means a family campground where no facilities or designated camping
				unit sites are provided for the comfort or convenience of the
				campers;
(11) "Public water system"
				means any water provider supplying water to fifteen (15) or more consumers or
				twenty-five (25) or more persons, based upon the "Design Population" as defined
				in section
				16-262m-8(a)(3)
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies jointly administered by the
				department and the Department of Public Utility Control, daily at least sixty
				(60) days of the year;
(12)
				"Recreational park trailer" means a trailer-type camping unit that is primarily
				designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational camping that
				meets the following criteria:
(A) Be built on
				a single chassis mounted on wheels;
(B) have a gross trailer area not exceeding
				400 square feet, and
(C) be
				certified by the manufacturer as complying with ANSI A119.5.
(13) "Recreational vehicle" means
				a vehicular-type camping unit primarily designed as a temporary living quarters
				for recreation, camping or travel that either has its own motive power or is
				mounted on or towed by another vehicle. The basic entities included are camping
				trailer, fifth wheel trailer, motor home, travel trailer and truck
				camper;
(14) "Sanitary disposal
				station" means a facility provided for emptying of camping unit wastewater
				storage tanks;
(15) "Semi-primitive
				campground" means a family campground where designated camping unit sites are
				not provided and where some rudimentary facilities (privies and/or fireplaces)
				may be provided for the comfort and convenience of the campers;
(16) "Suitable acre" means dry land available
				for camping unit site development;
(17) "Travel trailer" means a vehicular
				camping unit, mounted on wheels, designed to provide temporary living quarters
				for recreation, camping, or travel and of such size or weight as not to require
				special highway movement permits when towed by a motorized vehicle;
(18) "Truck camper" means a portable camping
				unit constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping,
				or travel, consisting of a roof, floor, and sides designed to be loaded onto
				and unloaded from the bed of a pickup truck;
(19) "Water riser pipe" means that portion of
				the water system serving a camping unit or camping unit site that extends from
				the water supply main through a lateral branch and terminates at a water
				connection; and,
(20) "Water supply
				station" means a facility for supplying drinking water to campers or camping
				unit water storage tanks.