New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 25 - NEW JERSEY YOUTH CAMP SAFETY STANDARDS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:25-1.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Act" means the New Jersey Youth Camp Safety Act,
				  N.J.S.A.
				  26:12-1 et seq., P.L. 1973, c. 375.
"Activity specialist" means a person who has specialized
				  training and/or experience in a high risk activity.
"Adult" means a person who is at least 18 years of
				  age.
"Applicant" means any private individual, partnership,
				  corporation, or other entity, whether for profit or nonprofit, who applies to
				  the Department pursuant to
				  N.J.A.C.
				  8:25-2.2 for the purpose of requesting a
				  certificate of approval to operate a youth camp.
"Buddy system" means a pairing of campers in order to
				  facilitate the accounting of all campers.
"Camp director" means an individual who is in charge of the
				  youth camp and who is qualified in accordance with
				  N.J.A.C. 8:25-3.2.
"Camper" means a child under the age of 18 attending a youth
				  camp.
"Campsite" means land, including natural features, where the
				  main camp facilities are located.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of
				  Health or his or her designee.
"Communicable disease" shall have the meaning established at
				  N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.
"Counselor" means a staff member who is at least 16 years of
				  age.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of
				  Health.
"Facility" means a structure, including furnishings and
				  installations, on a campsite used for living and program purposes.
"Health director" means an adult who meets the
				  qualifications required by
				  N.J.A.C. 8:25-5.2
				  and who is responsible for the proper medical recordkeeping, care, and
				  treatment of all campers as required in this chapter.
"High risk activity" means any recreational component, sport,
				  or activity of a youth camp, which exposes a camper to a life-threatening or
				  serious injury because of the inherent danger of the recreational component,
				  sport, or activity and which requires a high level of adult supervision at all
				  times.
1. A high risk activity
				includes, but is not limited to, archery, swimming and other aquatic
				activities, horseback riding, riflery, rope courses, motorized vehicles, zip
				lining, and rock climbing.
2. The
				Department may determine whether any recreational component, sport, or activity
				of a youth camp is a high risk activity based on a Departmental review of the
				components of the activity.
"Lifeguard" means a person who is at least 16 years of age
				  and who holds a lifeguarding certificate from an organization recognized by the
				  New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, in accordance with
				  N.J.A.C.
				  8:25-9.2(a).
"Lifeguard supervisor" means an adult who meets the
				  qualifications for a lifeguard and who is in charge at a waterfront and
				  supervises swimming and watercraft activities and related staff, in accordance
				  with
				  N.J.A.C.
				  8:25-9.2(a).
"Local health authority" means the local board of health of
				  any municipality or the boards, body, or officers in such municipality lawfully
				  exercising any of the powers of a local board of health under the laws
				  governing such municipality.
"Passenger vehicle" means a motorized vehicle that has a
				  capacity of nine or fewer persons.
"Pit toilet" means a receptacle for the containment and
				  disposal of excrement which is not connected to a pressurized water supply.
"Privy" means an outbuilding with one or more seats
				  containing a pit for use as a toilet.
"Sanitary sewage" means any liquid waste containing animal
				  or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, or the water carried wastes
				  resulting from the discharge of water closets, laundry tubs, washing machines,
				  sinks, dishwashers, or any other source of water carried wastes of human origin
				  or containing putrescible material.
1.
				Sanitary sewage excludes industrial, hazardous, or toxic wastes and
				materials.
"Septage" means the combination of liquid and solid residues
				  resulting from the treatment of water-borne domestic waste in on-site treatment
				  systems.
"Single sport youth camp" or "SSYC" means a camp in which all
				  campers attend in order to specifically practice, play, learn, and understand
				  the rules of the individual sport taught by the camp.
"Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, or any
				  other waste material if it is disposed of by being discharged, deposited,
				  injected, dumped, spilled, leaked, or placed into or on any land or water so
				  that such material or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be
				  emitted into the air or discharged into ground or surface waters.
"Type I school bus" means a school bus having a capacity of
				  17 to 58 passengers, as determined by the vehicle manufacturer.
"Type II school bus" means a school bus having a capacity of
				  10 to 16 passengers, as determined by the vehicle manufacturer.
"Vehicle" means any motorized carrier used on public
				  highways to transport campers to and from camp or places incidental to the camp
				  program.
"Volunteer" means any unpaid person within the youth camp
				  setting who is not subject to criminal history record checks and shall not be
				  left unsupervised with campers.
"Youth camp" or "camp" means any parcel or parcels of land
				  having the general characteristics and features of a camp as the term is
				  generally understood, used wholly or in part for recreational or educational
				  purposes that accommodates five or more children under 18 years of age, other
				  than counselors or lifeguards, for a period of, or portions of, two days or
				  more within the same week and includes a site that is operated as a day camp or
				  as a resident camp.
1. The term "youth
				camp" or "camp" does not include a day program, which offers only a minimal
				recreational component, if the recreational component included in the day
				program involves no high risk activity.
2. A day camp is a youth camp that operates
				during the day but may occasionally allow an overnight stay for no more than
				one night per week.
3. A resident
				camp is a youth camp that as a matter of its business has the campers routinely
				stay overnight.
"Youth camp operator" means any private agency, organization,
				  or person, and any individual, who operates, controls, or supervises a youth
				  camp, whether such camp is operated for profit or
				  not-for-profit.