Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 11 - Bureau of Child Care Facilities › Subpart 55 - Child Care Facilities Licensure › Chapter 4 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING LICENSURE OF YOUTH CAMPS › Subchapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Rule 15-11-55-4.1.1

Current through June 25, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in these
						regulations, shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates
						otherwise.
1. Adult means a person 18
					 years of age or older.
2. Board
					 means the State Board of Health(s governing board consisting of 13
					 members.
3. Camper means any child
					 six (6) to eighteen (18) years of age who is attending a youth camp.
4. Camping means a sustained experience which
					 provides a creative, recreational, and educational opportunity in-group living
					 in the out-of-doors.
5. Camp
					 Director means the individual who has the primary responsibility for health
					 matters, food, and supportive services, such as business and transportation, at
					 a youth camp. This person may or may not be classified as the Program Manager
					 also.
6. Assistant Camp Director
					 means an individual appointed by the director and who must be present and
					 responsible in his absence.
7.
					 Youth Camp Operator shall mean any person who owns, operates, controls, or
					 supervises, whether or not for profit, a youth camp. The license is issued to
					 the Youth Camp Operator, and has the ultimate responsibility for the operation
					 of the youth camp.
8. Program
					 Manager is the individual responsible for the staff supervision and program
					 administration and shall meet the requirements of CAMP DIRECTOR.
9. Program Manager Permit is the permit to
					 operate a camping program of four or more consecutive days in a site rental
					 situation.
10. Counselor means an
					 individual who has a supervisory role with campers. This individual shall be at
					 least a high school graduate or 18 years of age.
11. Health Officer means the State Health
					 Officer, Mississippi State Board of Health.
12. Person means any individual, partnership,
					 corporation, association, or organization.
13. Swimming and Diving Areas mean and
					 include those aquatic facilities and operations generally known as swimming
					 pools, wading pools, diving tanks, beaches, rivers, lakes, or other natural
					 bodies of water, and similar areas and facilities.
14. Tent means any shelter of which 25
					 percent or more of the walls or roof or both are constructed of, or covered, or
					 protected by canvas or any other fabric material.
15. Youth Camp means any camp operating on a
					 permanent campsite for four (4) or more consecutive periods of twenty-four (24)
					 hours and accommodating twenty (20) or more children six (6) to eighteen (18)
					 years of age: provided, however, athletic camps and hunting and fishing camps
					 shall not be included in this definition.
16. Special Needs Campers mean those campers
					 who have (1) physical disabilities affecting sense organs, muscles or skeletal
					 structure, (2) mental impairments altering their intellectual performance,
					 reasoning, or judgment, or (3) special medical problems which place
					 restrictions upon their movement or render them unable to function in a normal
					 setting without assistance or special supervisory attention.
17. Department means the Mississippi State
					 Department of Health.
Miss. Code Ann.
						§
												75-74-9.