New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 7 - TEMPORARY RESIDENCES, MASS GATHERINGS AND CHILDREN'S CAMPS › Subpart 7-3 - Campgrounds › Section 7-3.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
For purpose of this Subpart, the following terms shall have
					 the following meanings:
(a) Adequate.
				  Sufficient to accomplish the purpose for which something is intended, and to
				  such a degree that no unreasonable risk to health or safety is presented. An
				  item installed, maintained, designed and assembled, an activity conducted, or
				  act performed, in accordance with generally accepted standards, principles or
				  practices applicable to a particular trade, business, occupation or profession,
				  is adequate within the meaning of this Subpart.
(b) Campground. Any parcel or tract of land
				  including buildings or other structures, under the control of any person, where
				  five or more campsites are available for temporary or seasonal overnight
				  occupancy.
(c) Camping cabin. A
				  hard sided tent or shelter less than 400 square feet in area which is on skids
				  or otherwise designed to be readily moveable and which does not have cooking
				  facilities, sinks, showers, laundry or toilet facilities.
(d) Camping unit. A tent, camping cabin,
				  recreational vehicle or other type of portable shelter intended, designed or
				  used for temporary human occupancy.
(e) Campsite. A portion of a campground, with
				  or without connections to water supply, electrical service or sewage systems,
				  used by one camping unit.
(f)
				  Permit-issuing official. The State Health Commissioner, the health commissioner
				  or health officer of a city of 50,000 population or over, the health
				  commissioner or health officer of a county or part-county health district, or
				  the State district director having jurisdiction, or any county or public health
				  director having all the powers and duties prescribed in section 352  of the Public Health Law.
(g) Person. An individual, group of
				  individuals, partnership, corporation, association, political subdivision,
				  State or local governmental agency, municipality, or any other legal
				  entity.
(h) Potable water. Water
				  fit for human consumption, food preparation, lavatory, culinary, bathing or
				  laundry purposes.
(i) Recreational
				  vehicle. A vehicular camping unit primarily designed as temporary living
				  quarters for recreational, camping, travel or seasonal use that either has its
				  own motive power or is mounted on or towed by another vehicle. Recreational
				  vehicles include, but are not limited to, camping trailers, fifth wheel
				  trailers, motor homes, park trailers, travel trailers, and truck
				  campers.
(j) Refuse. All
				  putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes,
				  incinerator residue, street cleanup, dead animals, offal and solid commercial
				  waste.
(k) Scavenger equipment. A
				  combination of a portable holding tank, pumping or other waste transfer method,
				  and water tight hose connections, whereby a water tight seal can be made
				  between the sewer connection of a recreational vehicle and a portable holding
				  tank to empty the contents of the recreational vehicle sewage holding tank for
				  transport to an approved sewage disposal system.
(l) Seasonal campsite. A campsite intended to
				  be occupied by the same individual or group for 30 days or more.
(m) Self-contained recreational vehicle. A
				  recreational vehicle equipped with at a minimum a toilet, a holding tank for
				  sewage, a holding tank for drinking water and/or a connection through which the
				  vehicle can be connected to the campground's water supply. These vehicles may
				  also have electrical connections, showers, or other appliances.
(n) Sewage. Excreta and the waste from a
				  toilet, privy, bath, shower, sink, lavatory, dishwashing or laundry machine, or
				  the water carried waste from any other fixture or equipment or
				  machine.
(o) Uniform code. Chapter
				  1, Subtitle S, Volume B of Title 9 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules
				  and Regulations of the State of New York, known as the "State Uniform Fire
				  Prevention and Building Code".