Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 10 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Part 3
Subtitle 16 - HOUSING
Chapter 10.16.03 - Camps
Section 10.16.03.01-1 - Definitions

(1) "Approving Authority" means the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene or his designee.

(2) "Camp" means a property consisting of a tract of land and all tents, vehicles, buildings, or other structures pertaining to it used as living quarters or shelter, which is operated gratuitously or for compensation, during any portion of any 5 or more days per annum, and which accommodates five or more persons at any time. However, this definition may not apply to a camp to be used by one family on its own premises, motels, motor courts, migrant labor camps, and mobile home parks.

(3) Camping Vehicle.

(4) "Garbage" means all animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, and serving of food, exclusive of recognized industrial by-products and human and animal excreta.

(5) "Permit" means a written permit issued by the Approving Authority according to these regulations.

(6) "Person" means a person, persons, individual, partnership, firm, corporation, company, or association having charge, care, custody, ownership, or control of a camp or part of a camp.

(7) "Refuse" means all putrescible, nonputrescible, combustible, noncombustible, and solid waste materials, including garbage, rubbish, and ashes, but not including sewage.

(8) "Service building" means a building housing toilet, bathing, laundry, and other sanitary facilities.