Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 511 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 511-3 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARDS
Subject 511-3-2 - MASS GATHERINGS
Rule 511-3-2-.01 - Definitions

(a) "Adequate" means equal to what is required, suitable to the case or occasion, fully sufficient, proportionate, satisfactory;

(b) "Approved" or "approval" means accepted or acceptable by the Department in accordance with applicable regulations;

(c) "Chemical Privy" means a structure and necessary appurtenances for the sanitary disposal or storage of human wastes without the aid of water carriage and which relies upon a chemical such as caustic soda to disintegrate the excreta;

(d) "Department" means the Georgia Department of Public Health;

(e) "Drinking Water" means water provided or used for human consumption or for lavatory or culinary purposes;

(f) "Food Service Establishment" means and includes establishments for the preparation and serving of meals, lunches, short orders, sandwiches, frozen desserts, or other edible products. The term includes but is not limited to restaurants; coffee shops; cafeterias; short order cafes; luncheonettes; taverns; lunch rooms; places manufacturing, wholesaling, or retailing sandwiches or salads; soda fountains; institutions; both public and private; food carts; itinerant restaurants; industrial cafeterias; catering establishments; food vending machines and vehicles and operations connected therewith; and similar facilities by whatever name called;

(g) "Health Authority" means the Georgia Department of Public Health or a County Board of Health;

(h) "Individual Sewage Disposal System" means a sewage disposal system, other than a public or community sewage disposal system, serving a single building, residence or other facility designed or used for human occupancy or congregation. Included within the scope of this definition are septic tank systems and privies;

(i) "Mass Gathering" means any event likely to attract five thousand (5,000) or more persons and to continue for fifteen (15) consecutive or more hours;

(j) "Permit" means written authorization to a person by the Health Authority to operate a mass gathering;

(k) "Person" means the State or any agency or institution therof, any municipality, political subdivision, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, association, or other entity, and includes any officer or governing or managing body of any municipality, political subdivision, or public or private corporation;

(l) "Privy" means a structure and necessary appurtenances for the sanitary disposal or storage of human wastes without the aid of water carriage. Included in the scope of the definition are pit privies, vault privies, chemical privies, pit-type latrines, portable toilets, and other facilities that may be approved by the Department;

(m) "Public or Community Sewerage System" means any sewage treatment works, pipe lines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains and all other constructions, devices, and appliances appurtenant thereto, designed for treating or conducting sewage for ultimate disposal into lakes, streams, or other bodies of surface water;

(n) "Public or Community Water Supply System" means any water supply system regardless of ownership or operation, serving or intended to serve water for domestic use of human consumption to the public or any segment therof, except an individual water supply system serving a single family dwelling. They are classified as follows:

(o) "Public Swimming Pool" means any swimming pool, other than a private residential swimming pool, for collective use by numbers of persons for swimming or bathing, operated by any person, whether he be owner, operator, lessee, licensee, or concessionaire, regardless of whether a fee is charged, and all facilities incident thereto;

(p) "Sewage" means human, domestic, or animal wastes from residences, building, commercial and industrial establishments, institutions, and other structures and shall include bath and toilet wastes, laundry wastes, kitchen wastes and other similar wastes together with water or other liquid wastes that may be present;

(q) "Sewage Disposal System" means any system, whether publicly or privately owned, used for the collection and disposal of sewage;

(r) "Solid Waste" means putrescible and non-putrescible wastes, except human body wastes, and shall include garbage, rubbish (paper, cartons, boxes, wood, tin, tree branches, yard trimmings, furniture and appliances, metals, tin cans, glass, crockery, or dunnage), ashes, refuse, dead animals, industrial wastes (waste materials generated in industrial operations), residue from incineration, food processing wastes, demolition wastes, construction wastes, and any other waste material in a solid or semi-solid state, not otherwise defined.