New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 25 - NEW JERSEY YOUTH CAMP SAFETY STANDARDS
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 8:25-1.4 - 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 New Jersey Youth Camp Safety Act, N.J.S.A. 26:12-1 et seq., P.L. 1973, c. 375.
"Activity specialist" means a person who has specialized training and/or experience in a high risk activity.
"Adult" means a person who is at least 18 years of age.
"Applicant" means any private individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity, whether for profit or nonprofit, who applies to the Department pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:25-2.2 for the purpose of requesting a certificate of approval to operate a youth camp.
"Buddy system" means a pairing of campers in order to facilitate the accounting of all campers.
"Camp director" means an individual who is in charge of the youth camp and who is qualified in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:25-3.2.
"Camper" means a child under the age of 18 attending a youth camp.
"Campsite" means land, including natural features, where the main camp facilities are located.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Health or his or her designee.
"Communicable disease" shall have the meaning established at N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.
"Counselor" means a staff member who is at least 16 years of age.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health.
"Facility" means a structure, including furnishings and installations, on a campsite used for living and program purposes.
"Health director" means an adult who meets the qualifications required by N.J.A.C. 8:25-5.2 and who is responsible for the proper medical recordkeeping, care, and treatment of all campers as required in this chapter.
"High risk activity" means any recreational component, sport or activity of a youth camp, which exposes a camper to a life-threatening or serious injury because of the inherent danger of the recreational component, sport or activity and which requires a high level of adult supervision at all times.
1. A high risk activity includes, but is not limited to, archery, swimming and other aquatic activities, horseback riding, riflery, rope courses, motorized vehicles, and rock climbing.
2. The Department may determine whether any recreational component, sport or activity of a youth camp is a high risk activity based on a Departmental review of the components of the activity.
"Lifeguard" means a person who is at least 16 years of age and who holds a lifeguarding certificate from an organization recognized by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:25-9.2(a).
"Lifeguard supervisor" means an adult who meets the qualifications for a lifeguard and who is in charge at a waterfront and supervises swimming and watercraft activities and related staff, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:25-9.2(a).
"Local health authority" means the local board of health of any municipality or the boards, body, or officers in such municipality lawfully exercising any of the powers of a local board of health under the laws governing such municipality.
"Passenger vehicle" means a motorized vehicle that has a capacity of nine or fewer persons.
"Pit toilet" means a receptacle for the containment and disposal of excrement which is not connected to a pressurized water supply.
"Privy" means an outbuilding with one or more seats containing a pit for use as a toilet.
"Sanitary sewage" means any liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, or the water carried wastes resulting from the discharge of water closets, laundry tubs, washing machines, sinks, dishwashers, or any other source of water carried wastes of human origin or containing putrescible material.
1. Sanitary sewage excludes industrial, hazardous, or toxic wastes and materials.
"Septage" means the combination of liquid and solid residues resulting from the treatment of water-borne domestic waste in on-site treatment systems.
"Single sport youth camp" or "SSYC" means a camp in which all campers attend in order to specifically practice, play, learn and understand the rules of the individual sport that the camp teaches.
"Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, or any other waste material if it is disposed of by being discharged, deposited, injected, dumped, spilled, leaked, or placed into or on any land or water so that such material or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into ground or surface waters.
"Type I school bus" means a school bus having a capacity of 17 to 58 passengers, as determined by the vehicle manufacturer.
"Type II school bus" means a school bus having a capacity of 10 to 16 passengers, as determined by the vehicle manufacturer.
"Vehicle" means any motorized carrier used on public highways to transport campers to and from camp or places incidental to the camp program.
"Youth camp" or "camp" means any parcel or parcels of land having the general characteristics and features of a camp as the term is generally understood, used wholly or in part for recreational or educational purposes that accommodates five or more children under 18 years of age, other than counselors or lifeguards, for a period of, or portions of, two days or more within the same week and includes a site that is operated as a day camp or as a resident camp.
1. The term "youth camp" or "camp" does not include a day program, which offers only a minimal recreational component, if the recreational component included in the day program involves no high risk activity.
2. A day camp is a youth camp that operates during the day but may occasionally allow an overnight stay for no more than one night per week.
3. A resident camp is a youth camp that as a matter of its business has the campers stay overnight on a regular basis.
"Youth camp operator" means any private agency, organization, or person, and any individual, who operates, controls, or supervises a youth camp, whether such camp is operated for profit or not-for-profit.
