In this chapter:
(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:
(a) Individual campsite.
(b) Group campsite.
(c) Seasonal campsite.
(d) Rustic campsite.
(8) "Campground attribute" means any of the
following:
(a) Water system.
(b) Water distribution system.
(c) POWTS.
(d) Sanitary dump station.
(e) Toilet building.
(f) Toilet room.
(g) Shower room.
(h) Campground road system.
(i) Campsite.
(j) A camping unit that is
operator-provided.
(k) Any other
operator-provided building or structure.
(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.
