As used in this article 150, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1)Area operator means a person who owns, manages, or directs the
operation and maintenance of a passenger tramway. Area operator may apply to
the state or any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof.
(2)Board means the passenger tramway safety board created by section
12-150-104.
(3)Industry means the activities of all those persons in this state who own,
manage, or direct the operation of passenger tramways.
(4)License means the formal, legal, written permission of the board to
operate a passenger tramway.
(5)Passenger tramway means a device used to transport passengers uphill
on skis, or in cars on tracks, or suspended in the air by the use of steel cables,
chains, or belts, or by ropes, and u
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As used in this article 150, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Area operator means a person who owns, manages, or directs the
operation and maintenance of a passenger tramway. Area operator may apply to
the state or any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof.
(2) Board means the passenger tramway safety board created by section
12-150-104.
(3) Industry means the activities of all those persons in this state who own,
manage, or direct the operation of passenger tramways.
(4) License means the formal, legal, written permission of the board to
operate a passenger tramway.
(5) Passenger tramway means a device used to transport passengers uphill
on skis, or in cars on tracks, or suspended in the air by the use of steel cables,
chains, or belts, or by ropes, and usually supported by trestles or towers with one or
more spans. Passenger tramway includes, but is not limited to, the following
devices:
(a) Fixed-grip lifts. Fixed-grip lift means an aerial lift on which carriers
remain attached to a haul rope. The tramway system may be either continuously or
intermittently circulating, and may be either monocable or bicable.
(b) Detachable-grip lifts. Detachable-grip lift means an aerial lift on which
carriers alternately attach to and detach from a moving haul rope. The tramway
system may be monocable or bicable.
(c) Funiculars. Funicular means a device in which a passenger car running
on steel or wooden tracks is attached to and propelled by a steel cable, and any
similar devices.
(d) Chair lifts. Chair lift means a type of transportation on which
passengers are carried on chairs suspended in the air and attached to a moving
cable, chain, or link belt supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans,
and any similar devices.
(e) Surface lifts. Surface lift means a J-bar, T-bar, or platter pull and any
similar types of devices or means of transportation that pull skiers riding on skis by
means of an attachment to a main overhead cable supported by trestles or towers
with one or more spans.
(f) Rope tows. Rope tow means a type of transportation that pulls the skier
riding on skis as the skier grasps the rope manually, and any similar devices.
(g) Portable aerial tramway devices. Portable aerial tramway device means
any device designed for temporary use and operation, without permanent
foundations, in changing or variable locations, with a capacity of less than five
persons, that transports equipment or personnel, and is not used or intended to be
used by the general public.
(h) Portable tramway devices. Portable tramway device means any device
designed to be used and operated as a rope tow or surface lift without permanent
foundations and intended for temporary use in changing or variable locations, when
used within the boundary of a recognized ski area.
(i) Private residence tramways. Private residence tramway means a device
installed at a private residence or installed in multiple dwellings as a means of
access to a private residence in multiple dwelling buildings, so long as the tramway
is so installed that it is not accessible to the general public or to other occupants of
the building.
(j) Reversible aerial tramways. Reversible aerial tramway means a device
on which passengers are transported in cable-supported carriers and are not in
contact with the ground or snow surface, and in which the carriers reciprocate
between terminals.
(k) Conveyors. Conveyor means a type of transportation by which skiers, or
passengers on recreational devices, are transported uphill on top of a flexible,
moving element such as a belt or a series of rollers.
(6) Program director means the person who manages the board's offices
on a day-to-day basis and works with the supervisory tramway engineer and the
board in implementing the policies, decisions, and orders of the board.
(7) Qualified tramway design engineer or qualified tramway construction
engineer means an engineer licensed by the state board of licensure for architects,
professional engineers, and professional land surveyors pursuant to part 2 of article
120 of this title 12 to practice professional engineering in this state.
(8) Staff means the program director, the supervisory tramway engineer,
and their clerical staff.
(9) Supervisory tramway engineer means the tramway engineer who works
with the program director and the board in implementing the policies, decisions,
and orders of the board.