Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
ATCP 55-89 - Food, Lodging, and Recreation Safety
Chapter ATCP 79 - Campgrounds
Section ATCP 79.03 - Definitions

(1) "Agent" means the city, county, or village designated by the department under s. 97.615(2), Stats., and ch. ATCP 74 to issue licenses to and make investigations or inspections of public pools and water attractions.

(2) "Approved" means acceptable to the department, based on its determination of conformance with this chapter and good public health practices.

(3) "Campground" means a parcel or tract of land owned by a person, state, or local government that is designed, maintained, intended, or used for the purpose of providing campsites offered with or without charge, for temporary overnight sleeping accommodations.

(4) "Camping cabin" means a building or other structure that is 400 square feet or less in area. A camping cabin includes a yurt, but does not include a tent, recreational vehicle, tourist rooming house, mobile home, or manufactured home.

(5) "Camping trailer" has the meaning given in s. 340.01(6m), Stats.

Note: Section s. 340.01(6m), Stats., defines "camping trailer" to mean a recreational vehicle with a collapsible or folding structure designed for human habitation and towed upon a highway by a motor vehicle.

(6) "Camping unit" means a structure, including a tent, camping cabin, yurt, recreational vehicle, mobile home, or manufactured home, bus, van, or pickup truck.

(7) "Campsite" means an area of a campground that is designated by the operator as capable of accommodating an independent or dependent camping unit. A campsite may be one or a combination of the following:

(8) "Campground attribute" means any of the following:

(9) "Collection point" means an area within a campground used for the accumulation of garbage, refuse, or recyclables.

(10) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.

(11) "Dependent camping unit" means a camping unit that is not equipped with a toilet or toilet facilities.

(12) "Dependent campsite" means an individual or group campsite that is capable of supporting one or more dependent camping units.

(13) "Domestic wastewater" has the meaning given in s. SPS 381.01(78).

Note: Section SPS 381.01(78) reads: "Domestic wastewater" means the type of wastewater, not including storm water, normally discharged from or similar to that discharged from plumbing fixtures, appliances and devices including, but not limited to sanitary, bath, laundry, dishwashing, garbage disposal, and cleaning wastewaters.

(14) "Group campsite" means a campsite designated for use by 7 or more campers.

(15) "Independent camping unit" means a camping unit that is equipped with a self-contained water storage tank and toilet facility which discharges to a holding or transfer tank.

(16) "Independent campsite" means an individual or group campsite that is capable of supporting one or more independent camping units.

(17) "Individual campsite" means a campsite designated for use by 6 or fewer campers, unless the campers are members of an individual family.

(17m) "Individual family" means the principal campsite occupant and persons related to that person as a spouse, child, parent, grandparent, sibling or grandchild, or the spouse's child, parent, grandparent, sibling, or grandchild.

(18) "Manufactured home" has the meaning given in 42 USC 5402(6).

Note: Section 42 USC 5402(6) reads: "manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein; except that such term shall include any structure which meets all the requirements of this paragraph except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary and complies with the standards established under this chapter; and except that such term shall not include any self-propelled recreational vehicle."

(19) "Mobile home" has the meaning given in s. 101.91(10), Stats.

Note: Section 101.91(10) Stats., reads: "Mobile home" means a vehicle manufactured or assembled before June 15, 1976, designed to be towed as a single unit or in sections upon a highway by a motor vehicle and equipped and used, or intended to be used, primarily for human habitation, with walls of rigid uncollapsible construction, which has an overall length in excess of 45 feet. "Mobile home" includes the mobile home structure, its plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems, and all appliances and all other equipment carrying a manufacturer's warranty.

(20) "Motor home" has the meaning given in s. 340.01(33m), Stats.

Note: Section 340.01(33m), Stats., reads: "Motor home" means a motor vehicle designed to be operated upon a highway for use as a temporary or recreational dwelling and having the same internal characteristics and equipment as a mobile home.

(21) "Operator" means the owner of a campground or the person responsible to the owner for the operation of the campground.

(22) "Operator-provided" means a thing made available to the public by the operator with or without charge.

(23) "Park model" means a recreational vehicle that is built on a single chassis mounted on wheels, that has a gross trailer area of not more than 400 square feet in the setup mode, and that bears a label, symbol, or other identifying mark indicating construction to nationally recognized standards ANSI 119.5.

(24) "Person" means, for purposes of issuing a license, an individual, partnership, association, firm, company, corporation, municipality, county, town or state agency, whether tenant, owner, lessee or licensee, or the agent, heir, or assignee of any of these, as applicable.

(25) "Petting zoo" means a collection of animals that can be touched or fed.

(26) "Plumbing system" has the meaning given in s. SPS 381.01(179).

Note: Section SPS 381.01(179) reads: "Plumbing system" includes the water supply system, the drain system, the vent system, plumbing fixtures, plumbing appliances and plumbing appurtenances that serve a building, structure or premises.

(27) "Potable" has the meaning given in s. NR 812.07(75).

Note: Section NR 812.07(75) reads: "Potable" means water supplied for human consumption, sanitary use, or for the preparation of food or pharmaceutical products.

(28) "POWTS" or "private on-site wastewater treatment system" has the meaning given in s. 145.01(12), Stats.

Note: Section 145.01(12), Stats., reads: Private on-site wastewater treatment system. "Private on-site wastewater treatment system" means a sewage treatment and disposal system serving a single structure with a septic tank and soil absorption field located on the same parcel as the structure. This term also means an alternative sewage system approved by the department including a substitute for the septic tank or soil absorption field, a holding tank, a system serving more than one structure or a system located on a different parcel than the structure. A private on-site wastewater treatment system may be owned by the property owner or by a special purpose district.

(29) "Private water system" has the meaning given in s. NR 812.07(78).

Note: Section NR 812.07(78) reads: "Private water system" means any water system supplying water that is not a public water system.

(30) "Public sewer" has the meaning given in s. SPS 381.01(198).

Note: Section SPS 381.01(198) reads: "Public sewer" means a sewer owned and controlled by a public authority.

(31) "Public water system" has the meaning given in s. NR 812.07(80).

Note: Section NR 812.07(80) reads: "Public water system" means a system for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption if such system has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days per year. A public water system is either a "community water system" or a "non-community water system." Such system includes:

(32) "Recreational vehicle" means a vehicle that has walls of rigid construction, does not exceed 45 feet in length, is designed to be towed upon a highway by a motor vehicle or has a motor of its own, and is equipped and used, or intended to be used, primarily for temporary or recreational human habitation. A recreational vehicle includes camping trailers, motor homes, and park models.

(33) "Rustic campsite" means an individual campsite that is accessible only by canoe, boat, horse, walking, or a nonmotorized vehicle and for which there are no operator-provided campground attributes.

Note: DNR primitive and semi-primitive camping facilities as defined in s. NR 44.07(6) (e) 2., are covered under an memorandum of understanding established between the department and the DNR.

(34) "Sanitary dump station" means a department of safety and professional services approved facility that is designed to receive sewage and domestic wastewater from the holding tank or transfer tank of a recreational vehicle.

(35) "Seasonal campsite" means a campsite in which the operator allows a camper to park a privately owned camping unit for 30 or more consecutive days.

(36) "Special event campground" means a campground temporarily created to provide campsites in conjunction with a special event, such as a fair, rally, carnival, music festival, sporting event, community festival, or other similar event.

(37) "Tourist rooming house" notwithstanding s. ATCP 72.03(20), when used in connection with this chapter, means a lodging place other than a hotel or motel, that is more than 400 square feet, in which sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to a tourist or transient. A "tourist rooming house" does not include private boarding or rooming houses not accommodating a tourist or transient, or a bed and breakfast establishment regulated under ch. ATCP 73.

(38) "Vault privy" has the meaning given in s. SPS 391.03(9).

Note: Section SPS 391.03(9) reads: "Vault privy" means an enclosed nonportable toilet into which nonwater-carried human wastes are deposited to a subsurface storage chamber that is watertight.

(39) "Water distribution system" has the meaning given in s. SPS 381.01(280).

Note: Section SPS 381.01(280) reads: "Water distribution system" means that portion of a water supply system from the building control valve to the connection of a fixture supply connector, plumbing fixture, plumbing appliance, water-using equipment or other piping systems to be served.

(40) "Water service" has the meaning given in s. SPS 381.01(282).

Note: Section SPS 381.01(282) reads: "Water service" means that portion of a water supply system from the water main or private water supply to the building control valve.

(41) "Water system" has the meaning given in s. NR 812.07(118).

Note: Section NR 812.07(118), reads: Water system" means the water supply, storage, treatment facilities and all structures and piping by which water is provided for any purpose.

(42) "Yurt" means a round domed structure constructed of wood and fabric.