N.J. Admin. Code § 8:25-1.4
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Act" means the New Jersey Youth Camp Safety Act, N.J.S.A. 26:12-1 et seq., P.L. 1973, c. 375.
"Activity specialist" means a person who has specialized training and/or experience in a high risk activity.
"Adult" means a person who is at least 18 years of age.
"Applicant" means any private individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity, whether for profit or nonprofit, who applies to the Department pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:25-2.2 for the purpose of requesting a certificate of approval to operate a youth camp.
"Buddy system" means a pairing of campers in order to facilitate the accounting of all campers.
"Camp director" means an individual who is in charge of the youth camp and who is qualified in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:25-3.2.
"Camper" means a child under the age of 18 attending a youth camp.
"Campsite" means land, including natural features, where the main camp facilities are located.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Health or his or her designee.
"Communicable disease" shall have the meaning established at N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.
"Counselor" means a staff member who is at least 16 years of age.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health.
"Facility" means a structure, including furnishings and installations, on a campsite used for living and program purposes.
"Health director" means an adult who meets the qualifications required by N.J.A.C. 8:25-5.2 and who is responsible for the proper medical recordkeeping, care, and treatment of all campers as required in this chapter.
"High risk activity" means any recreational component, sport, or activity of a youth camp, which exposes a camper to a life-threatening or serious injury because of the inherent danger of the recreational component, sport, or activity and which requires a high level of adult supervision at all times.
"Lifeguard" means a person who is at least 16 years of age and who holds a lifeguarding certificate from an organization recognized by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:25-9.2(a).
"Lifeguard supervisor" means an adult who meets the qualifications for a lifeguard and who is in charge at a waterfront and supervises swimming and watercraft activities and related staff, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:25-9.2(a).
"Local health authority" means the local board of health of any municipality or the boards, body, or officers in such municipality lawfully exercising any of the powers of a local board of health under the laws governing such municipality.
"Passenger vehicle" means a motorized vehicle that has a capacity of nine or fewer persons.
"Pit toilet" means a receptacle for the containment and disposal of excrement which is not connected to a pressurized water supply.
"Privy" means an outbuilding with one or more seats containing a pit for use as a toilet.
"Sanitary sewage" means any liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, or the water carried wastes resulting from the discharge of water closets, laundry tubs, washing machines, sinks, dishwashers, or any other source of water carried wastes of human origin or containing putrescible material.
"Septage" means the combination of liquid and solid residues resulting from the treatment of water-borne domestic waste in on-site treatment systems.
"Single sport youth camp" or "SSYC" means a camp in which all campers attend in order to specifically practice, play, learn, and understand the rules of the individual sport taught by the camp.
"Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, or any other waste material if it is disposed of by being discharged, deposited, injected, dumped, spilled, leaked, or placed into or on any land or water so that such material or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into ground or surface waters.
"Type I school bus" means a school bus having a capacity of 17 to 58 passengers, as determined by the vehicle manufacturer.
"Type II school bus" means a school bus having a capacity of 10 to 16 passengers, as determined by the vehicle manufacturer.
"Vehicle" means any motorized carrier used on public highways to transport campers to and from camp or places incidental to the camp program.
"Volunteer" means any unpaid person within the youth camp setting who is not subject to criminal history record checks and shall not be left unsupervised with campers.
"Youth camp" or "camp" means any parcel or parcels of land having the general characteristics and features of a camp as the term is generally understood, used wholly or in part for recreational or educational purposes that accommodates five or more children under 18 years of age, other than counselors or lifeguards, for a period of, or portions of, two days or more within the same week and includes a site that is operated as a day camp or as a resident camp.
"Youth camp operator" means any private agency, organization, or person, and any individual, who operates, controls, or supervises a youth camp, whether such camp is operated for profit or not-for-profit.
N.J. Admin. Code § 8:25-1.4
See: 40 N.J.R. 4888(a), 41 N.J.R. 1026(a).
In definition "Act", deleted " P.L. 1973, c.375," following "Act," and substituted " P.L. 1973, c.375," for "and any amendments thereto" following "et seq.,"; in definition "Activity specialist", substituted "high risk" for "hazardous camp"; in definition "Applicant", substituted "pursuant to" for "on prescribed application forms (see", deleted the closing parenthesis following "N.J.A.C. 8:25-2.2" and deleted "day or resident" preceding "youth camp"; deleted definition "Approved"; added definitions "Camper", "Communicable disease", "High risk activity" and "Single sport youth camp"; in definition "Department", deleted "State" following "Jersey"; in definition "Sanitary sewage", redesignated the last sentence as paragraph 1 and in paragraph 1, substituted "Sanitary sewage" for "This term specifically"; and rewrote definition "Youth camp". Former N.J.A.C. 8:25-1.4, Waiver, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:25-1.5.
Notice of readoption with technical amendment.
See: 48 N.J.R. 133(a).