Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs › Corporations, Securities, and Commercial Licensing › Carnival/Amusement Safety › Carnival/Amusement Safety › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONSR › Section R. 408.803 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 3.
(1) As
					 used in these rules:
(a) "Act" means the
					 carnival-amusement safety act of 1966, 1966 PA 225, MCL
					 408.651 to
					 408.670.
(b) "Aerial passenger tramway" means any of
					 the following devices used to transport passengers:
(i) "Single and double reversible aerial
					 tramways" means devices that carry passengers in 1 or more enclosed cars that
					 reciprocate between terminals.
(ii)
					 "Chair lift, gondola lift, and monorail" means a device that carries passengers
					 on chairs, cars, or in gondola cabs attached to and suspended from a moving
					 wire rope or attached to a moving wire rope or chain and supported on a
					 standing wire rope, rail, or other structure.
(c) "Amusement ride or amusement device"
					 means a device or combination of devices or elements that carries, conveys, or
					 directs an individual or individuals over or through a fixed or restricted
					 course or within a defined area, for the primary purpose of amusement or
					 entertainment. Amusement ride or amusement device does not include any of the
					 following:
(i) Aerial adventure
					 courses.
(ii) Aquatic play
					 equipment.
(iii) Buildings or
					 concourses used in laser games or paint ball.
(iv) Bungee jumping.
(v) Devices operated on a river, lake, or any
					 other natural body of water.
(vi)
					 Funhouses, haunted houses, and similar walk-through devices that are erected
					 temporarily on a seasonal basis and do not have mechanical components designed
					 to convey patrons.
(vii)
					 Hayrides.
(viii) High speed
					 go-karts capable of attaining speeds of 25 miles per hour or more.
(ix) Human-powered devices.
(x) Ice skating rinks.
(xi) Inflatable amusement devices.
(xii) Luge and bobsled tracks.
(xiii) Mechanical bulls.
(xiv) Parasailing.
(xv) Playground equipment, including, but not
					 limited to, soft-contained play equipment, swings, seesaws, slides, stationary
					 spring-mounted animal features, jungle gyms, rider-propelled merry-go-rounds,
					 and trampolines.
(xvi) Rock
					 walls.
(xvii) Roller skating
					 rinks.
(xviii) Simulators that can
					 be safely exited mid-ride.
(xix)
					 Skateboard ramps or courses.
(xx)
					 Skydiving simulators.
(xxi)
					 Stationary wave systems.
(xxii)
					 Trampoline courts.
(xxiii) Tubing
					 and sledding hills.
(xxiv) Wave
					 pools.
(xxv) Any other devices as
					 determined by the department.
(d) "Amusement park" means a tract or area
					 used principally as a permanent location for carnival-amusement
					 rides.
(e) "Engineer's attestation"
					 means a letter signed by a licensed engineer that states the device complies
					 with the applicable act and rules as well as the standards and codes that are
					 adopted by reference in R 408.802.
(f) "Gravity ride" means a ride installed on
					 a manmade inclined surface that entirely depends on gravity for its operation
					 to convey a passenger from the top of the incline to the bottom in a singular
					 lane and conveys the passenger in or on a carrier, tube, bag, bathing suit, or
					 clothes.
(g) "Major breakdown"
					 means a stoppage of operation from any cause resulting in damage, failure, or
					 breakage of a structural or stress-bearing part of a ride.