Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R392 - Population Health, Environmental Health
Rule R392-400 - Temporary Mass Gathering Sanitation
Section R392-400-3 - Definitions

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 392-400-3

Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024

The following definitions apply in this rule:

(1) "Drinking water station" means a location where a person may get safe drinking water free of charge.

(2) "Emergency medical provider" means the same as emergency medical services provider as defined in Section 26-8a-102.

(3) "First aid station" means a temporary or permanent enclosed space or structure where a person can receive first aid and emergency medical care.

(4) "Imminent health hazard" means a significant threat or danger to health that is considered to exist when there is evidence sufficient to show that a product, practice, circumstance, or event creates a situation that can cause infection, disease transmission, pest infestation, or hazardous condition that requires immediate correction or cessation of operation to prevent injury, illness, or death.

(5) "Local health department" has the same meaning as provided in Subsection 26A-1-102(5).

(6) "Local health officer" means the health officer of the local health department having jurisdiction, or a designated representative.

(7) "Operator" means a person who represents a group, corporation, partnership, governing body, association, or other public or private organization legally responsible for obtaining the necessary permits for the overall operation of a temporary mass gathering.

(8) "Owner" means any person who alone, jointly, or severally with others:

(a) has legal title to any premises, with or without accompanying actual possession; or

(b) has charge, care, or control of any premises, as legal or equitable owner, agent of the owner, or lessee.

(9) "Permit" means a written form of authorization written in accordance with this rule.

(10) "Person" means any individual, public or private corporation and its officers, partnership, association, firm, trustee, executor of an estate, the state or its departments, institution, bureau, agency, county, city, political subdivision, or any legal entity recognized by law.

(11) "Safe drinking water" means potable water meeting the Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Drinking Water rules or bottled water as regulated by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

(12) "Solid waste" means garbage, refuse, trash, rubbish, hazardous waste, dead animals, sludge, liquid or semi liquid waste, other spent, useless, worthless, or discarded materials or materials stored or accumulated for discarding, materials that have served their original intended purpose.

(13) "Staff' means any person who:

(a) works for or provides services for or on behalf of the operator or a vendor, or

(b) is a vendor at a gathering.

(14) "Temporary mass gathering" or "Gathering" means an actual or reasonably anticipated assembly of 1,000 or more people, which continues or can reasonably be expected to continue for two or more hours a day, at a site or sites for a purpose different from the designed use and usual type of occupancy.

(15) "Vendor" means any person who sells or offers food for public consumption.

(16) "Wastewater" means sewage, industrial waste, or other liquid or waterborne substances causing or capable of causing pollution of waters of the state.

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