§ 1392. Definitions. As used in this article:\n 1. "Children's overnight camp" shall mean a property consisting of a\ntract of land and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures\nthat may be pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied by\npersons under eighteen years of age under general supervision for the\npurpose of outdoor or indoor organized activities and on which\nprovisions are made for overnight occupancy of children. The\ncommissioner shall have the power to except by rule from this article\nand the sanitary code a place or facility that is not within the intent\nof this definition.\n 2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of a tract of\nland and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be\npertinent to its use, any part
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§ 1392. Definitions. As used in this article:\n 1. "Children's overnight camp" shall mean a property consisting of a\ntract of land and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures\nthat may be pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied by\npersons under eighteen years of age under general supervision for the\npurpose of outdoor or indoor organized activities and on which\nprovisions are made for overnight occupancy of children. The\ncommissioner shall have the power to except by rule from this article\nand the sanitary code a place or facility that is not within the intent\nof this definition.\n 2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of a tract of\nland and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be\npertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied on a scheduled\nbasis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year\nby children under sixteen years of age under general supervision, for\nthe purpose of indoor or outdoor organized group activities, involving\nnonpassive recreational activities with significant risk of injury, as\nsuch activities are defined by the department in rules and regulations,\nfor a period of less than twenty-four hours on any day the property is\nso occupied, and on which no provisions are made for overnight occupancy\nby such children. The commissioner shall have the power to except by\nrule from this article and the sanitary code a place, facility or\nactivity that is not within the intent of this definition.\n 3. "Traveling summer day camp" shall mean a summer day camp which\nregularly operates in the period between May fifteenth and September\nfifteenth and which regularly transports children under the age of\nsixteen on a regular schedule to a facility, site, or property,\nincluding any tract of land, beach, park, stadium, building, tents or\nother structures pertinent to its use and primarily for the purposes of\norganized group activity. The commissioner shall have the power to\nexcept by rule from this article and the sanitary code a place, facility\nor activity that is not within the intent of this definition.\n 4. "Officer" shall mean the commissioner, the health commissioner of a\ncity with a population of over fifty thousand, the health commissioner\nof a county or part-county health district, the state district health\nofficer, in whose jurisdiction a children's overnight camp, summer day\ncamp, or the primary inclement weather facility of the children's\ntraveling summer day camp is located, or if there be no such facility\nthen the state district health officer in whose jurisdiction the central\noffice is located, any county health director having all the powers and\nduties prescribed in section three hundred fifty-two of this chapter,\nthe state district sanitary engineer or a grade one public health\nadministrator qualified and appointed pursuant to part eleven of the\nsanitary code and serving as primary administrator of all health\nprograms in a county or part-county health district.\n