N.Y. Public Health Law § 1392: Definitions

§ 1392. Definitions. As used in this article:

1. "Children's overnight camp" shall mean a property consisting of a

tract of land and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures

that may be pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied by

persons under eighteen years of age under general supervision for the

purpose of outdoor or indoor organized activities and on which

provisions are made for overnight occupancy of children. The

commissioner shall have the power to except by rule from this article

and the sanitary code a place or facility that is not within the intent

of this definition.

2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of a tract of

land and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be

pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied on a scheduled

basis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year

by children under sixteen years of age under general supervision, for

the purpose of indoor or outdoor organized group activities, involving

nonpassive recreational activities with significant risk of injury, as

such activities are defined by the department in rules and regulations,

for a period of less than twenty-four hours on any day the property is

so occupied, and on which no provisions are made for overnight occupancy

by such children. The commissioner shall have the power to except by

rule from this article and the sanitary code a place, facility or

activity that is not within the intent of this definition.

3. "Traveling summer day camp" shall mean a summer day camp which

regularly operates in the period between May fifteenth and September

fifteenth and which regularly transports children under the age of

sixteen on a regular schedule to a facility, site, or property,

including any tract of land, beach, park, stadium, building, tents or

other structures pertinent to its use and primarily for the purposes of

organized group activity. The commissioner shall have the power to

except by rule from this article and the sanitary code a place, facility

or activity that is not within the intent of this definition.

4. "Officer" shall mean the commissioner, the health commissioner of a

city with a population of over fifty thousand, the health commissioner

of a county or part-county health district, the state district health

officer, in whose jurisdiction a children's overnight camp, summer day

camp, or the primary inclement weather facility of the children's

traveling summer day camp is located, or if there be no such facility

then the state district health officer in whose jurisdiction the central

office is located, any county health director having all the powers and

duties prescribed in section three hundred fifty-two of this chapter,

the state district sanitary engineer or a grade one public health

administrator qualified and appointed pursuant to part eleven of the

sanitary code and serving as primary administrator of all health

programs in a county or part-county health district.