{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-52-19-290","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 52-19-290","heading":"Staff requirements.","body":"The owner must maintain at least the following staff at each bungee jump:\n(A) Jump master. To be qualified as a jump master, a person must be at least eighteen years of age, and must have had a minimum of two hundred hours, and two hundred and fifty jumps, of incident-free experience as a jump operator under the supervision of a qualified jump master at a bungee jumping operation. The owner or lessee is responsible for maintaining records documenting hours logged\n(1) and jumps taken. A jump master is responsible for the following: selecting the bungee cord and adjusting the rigging appropriately for each jumper;\n(2) taking the jumper through the final stages to the jump take-off. The jump master must be present at the jump point during each jump;\n(3) training of the other bungee staff. All training must be conducted by or under the direct supervision of a jump master;\n(4) ensuring that the number of jumps being conducted at a site does not prohibit the bungee staff from carrying out all procedures and duties for each job as set out in the manual;\n(5) supervising all staff who are in training.\n(B) Registration clerk. The owner or jump master must designate a registration clerk at each bungee site with at least the following duties:\n(1) registering the jumper;\n(2) weighing and marking of weight of the jumper;\n(3) controlling movement of jumpers to jump platform.\n(C) Operating team. The owner must provide and maintain an operating team for each bungee jump operation. Each operating team must have a minimum of three staff members involved in the oversight of the jump, one of whom must be a jump master and one of whom must be a jump operator.","path":["Title 52 - AMUSEMENTS AND ATHLETIC CONTESTS","CHAPTER 19 Bungee Jumping"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t52c019.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T07:50:04Z","sha256":"8742536d9eecfeb59e22a476c7d3c7c5b124f1b67c0882ca109a5239f4d59e1f","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-52-19-280","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-52-19-300"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}