Section 1392. Definitions  


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  • 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,
      primarily  for  the purpose of outdoor organized group activities, 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.