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 7-5 - Agricultural Fairgrounds › Section 7-5.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Adequate means
				  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) Agricultural fairground means a property
				  where a fair has been conducted, or is proposed to be conducted, in 2001 or any
				  subsequent year by an agricultural society and/or other entities eligible in
				  2001, or any subsequent year, to receive premium reimbursement pursuant to
				  section 286  of the Agriculture and Markets Law,
				  including the parcel or tract of land, buildings or other structures,
				  campsites, and food service establishments, temporary or permanent, pertaining
				  thereto.
(c) Agricultural
				  fairground water system means a water system at an agricultural fairground
				  which provides piped water to the public for potable purposes. Such a system
				  may include collection, treatment, storage and/or distribution facilities under
				  the control of the agricultural fairground owner.
(d) Animal waste means any waste product
				  discharged by an animal, including fecal material, urine, other bodily fluid
				  and any wash water, discarded milk, hay, straw, feed and bedding material that
				  has been in contact with or contaminated by such waste product.
(e) Campground means any parcel or tract of
				  land at an agricultural fairground, including buildings or other structures
				  under the control of any person, where five or more campsites are available for
				  temporary overnight occupancy.
(f)
				  Campsite means a portion of an agricultural fairground, with or without
				  connections to water supply, electrical service or sewage systems, used by one
				  camping unit.
(g) Nonpublic
				  agricultural fairground water system means an agricultural fairground water
				  system that does not receive water from an off-site public water
				  system.
(h) Permit-issuing official
				  means the State Health Commissioner, the health commissioner or health officer
				  of a city of 50,000 population or more, 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.
(i) Person means an individual, group of
				  individuals, partnership, firm, corporation, association, political
				  subdivision, governmental agency, municipality, industry, estate or any other
				  legal entity.
(j) Potable water
				  means water used for human consumption, food preparation, or handwashing,
				  culinary, bathing or laundry purposes.
(k) Refuse means all putrescible and
				  nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator
				  residue, street cleanup, dead animals, offal and solid commercial
				  waste.
(l) Sewage means excreta and
				  the waste from a toilet, privy, bath, shower, sink, lavatory, dishwashing or
				  laundry machine.
(m) Uniform Code
				  means the State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code, 9 NYCRR Volume B,
				  Subtitle S, Chapter I.
(n) Water
				  treatment plant shall mean any plant or equipment which, through the addition
				  of chemicals or through aeration, ion exchange, demineralization, coagulation,
				  sedimentation or filtration, or through any other means or combinations of
				  treatment, shall change the physical, chemical, radiological or microbiological
				  quality of water.
(o) Camping cabin
				  means 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.
(p) Camping unit means a tent, camping cabin,
				  recreational vehicle or other type of portable shelter intended, designed or
				  used for temporary human occupancy.
(q) Recreational vehicle means 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.
(r) Scavenger equipment means 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.