New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 12 - SKI LIFTS
Subchapter 2 - DEFINITIONS
Section 5:12-2.1 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Act" means the Ski Lift Safety Act, 34:4A-1 et seq.

"ANSI" means the American National Standards Institute.

"Approved" means acceptable to the commissioner. Any product certified, or classified, or labeled, or listed by a nationally recognized testing agency may be deemed to be acceptable, unless specifically banned by order of the Commissioner.

"Authority having jurisdiction" means the Commissioner of Community Affairs.

"Bureau of Code Services" means the Bureau of Code Services, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Community Affairs or any officer or employee of the Department of Community Affairs assigned by him to carry out any of the functions, duties and powers conferred or imposed upon him by the Act.

"Division of Codes and Standards" means the Division of Codes and Standards in the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.

"Nationally recognized testing agency" means a laboratory, such as the Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., or the Factory Mutual Engineering Corporation, or any similar testing organization acceptable to the Commissioner.

"N.J.A.C." means the New Jersey Administrative Code.

"N.J.S.A." means the New Jersey Statutes Annotated.

"Operator" means a person who owns, manages or directs the operation of a passenger tramway, and includes the State or any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof.

"Passenger tramway" means a device used to transport passengers uphill, on skis, or in cars, or suspended in the air, by the use of steel cables, chains, belts, or ropes, and usually supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans, and includes among others: an aerial passenger tramway, multicar aerial passenger tramway, skimobile, chairlift, J-bar, T-bar, poma lift, platter pull, or rope tow.

"Professional engineer" means a person licensed to practice professional engineering in New Jersey by the New Jersey Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

"Serious injury" means any injury in which the injured person has lost consciousness, broken a bone, was transported to an emergency medical facility or an injury for which medical treatment by a physician beyond first aid was required.

"Shall" means a mandatory requirement.

"Ski lift" means aerial passenger tramway or passenger tramway.