Virginia Administrative Code › Title 12 - HEALTH › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter 431 - SANITARY REGULATIONS FOR HOTELS › Part I - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 12VAC5-431-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in these
					 regulations shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
					 indicates otherwise:
"Agent" means a legally authorized representative for the
					 owner.
"Approved water supply" means a waterworks that has a valid
					 waterworks operation permit from the department or a water supply that is
					 evaluated for compliance with the Private Well Regulations (12VAC5-630),
					 tested, and if found in reasonable compliance with the applicable standards,
					 accepted and approved by the commissioner or the commissioner's
					 designee.
"Bed and breakfast facility" means a residential-type
					 establishment that provides two or more rental accommodations and food service
					 on any single day to a maximum of 18 transient guests for a period of five or
					 more days in any calendar year or any residential type of facility providing at
					 least one rental accommodation for transient guests and food service for a
					 total of 30 or more days in any calendar year.
"Commissioner" means the state health commissioner or his
					 designee who has been delegated powers in accordance with subdivision 2 of
					 12VAC5-431-40.
"Department" means the Virginia Department of
					 Health.
"Director" means the local health director or his
					 subordinate who has been delegated powers in accordance with subdivision 2 of
					 12VAC5-431-40.
"District health department" means a consolidation of local
					 health departments as authorized in § 32.1-31C of the Code of
					 Virginia.
"Division" means the Division of Food and Environmental
					 Services of the Virginia Department of Health.
"Employees" means and includes all maids, porters, and any
					 other persons whose duties include the cleaning of rooms, toilets, or any part
					 of the building, or the rendering of service to guests.
"Hot water" has the meaning as defined by the Virginia
					 Uniform Statewide Building Code.
"Hotel" means any establishment offering to the public for
					 compensation transitory lodging or sleeping accommodations, overnight or
					 otherwise, including but not limited to facilities known by varying
					 nomenclatures or designations as hotels, motels, travel lodges, tourist homes,
					 or hostels and similar facilities by whatever name called that consist of two
					 or more lodging units.
"Local health department" means the department established
					 in each city and county in accordance with § 32.1-30 of the Code of
					 Virginia.
"Lodging unit" means any room that is established and
					 maintained for use as a sleeping area for temporary occupancy.
"Office" means the Office of Environmental Health Services
					 of the Virginia Department of Health.
"Operator" means any person who is responsible for the
					 daily operation of a hotel.
"Owner" means any person who owns, leases, or proposes to
					 own or lease a hotel.
"Permit" means a license to operate a hotel.
"Person" means an association, a corporation, individual,
					 partnership, other legal entity, government, or governmental subdivision or
					 agency.
"Person in charge" means the individual present at a hotel
					 who is responsible for the operation at the time of inspection.
"Sanitary survey" means an investigation or inspection of
					 any condition that may affect public health.
"Sewage" means water-carried and nonwater-carried human
					 excrement and kitchen, laundry, shower, bath, or lavatory wastes separately or
					 together with such underground, surface, storm and other water and liquid
					 industrial wastes as may be present from residences, buildings, vehicles,
					 industrial establishments or other places.
"Sewage disposal system" means a sewerage system or
					 treatment works designed not to result in a point source discharge.
"Sewer" means any sanitary or combined sewer used to convey
					 sewage or municipal or industrial wastes.
"Sewerage system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping
					 stations and force mains and all other construction, devices and appliances
					 appurtenant thereto used for the collection and conveyance of sewage to a
					 treatment works or point of ultimate disposal.
"Single-service articles" means cups, containers, lids,
					 closures, plates, knives, forks, spoons, stirrers, paddles, straws, napkins,
					 wrapping materials, wooden chopsticks, toothpicks and similar articles intended
					 for one-time, one-person use and then discarded.
"Swimming pool" means any structure, basin chamber, or
					 tank, located either indoors or outdoors, containing an artificial body of
					 water intended to be used for swimming, wading, diving or recreational bathing,
					 including spas and hot tubs, and having a water depth of 24 inches or more at
					 any point.
"Transient" means any individual who occupies a lodging
					 unit in a hotel.
"Treatment works" means any device or system used in the
					 storage, treatment, disposal or reclamation of sewage or combinations of sewage
					 and industrial wastes, including but not limited to pumping, power and other
					 equipment and appurtenances, septic tanks, and any works, including land, that
					 are or will be (i) an integral part of the treatment process or (ii) used for
					 the ultimate disposal of residues or effluents resulting from such
					 treatment.
"Variance" means a conditional waiver to a specific
					 regulation granted by the commissioner pursuant to
					 12VAC5-431-100 to a specific owner
					 relating to a specific situation or facility and may be for a specified time
					 period.
"Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code" means 13VAC5-61
					 of the Virginia Administrative Code.
Statutory Authority
§§ 35.1-11 and 35.1-13 of the Code of Virginia.