2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 13-B - (1391 - 1396) REGULATION OF OVERNIGHT, SUMMER DAY, AND TRAVELING SUMMER DAY CAMPS FOR CHILDREN
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.