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Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABORChapter I - Industrial Board Of AppealsSubchapter A - The Industrial CodePart 45 - Amusement Devices, Viewing Stands And Tents At Carnivals, Fairs And Amusement Parks
Subpart 45-1 - General Provisions
Section 45-1.3 - Definitions

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 12 §§ 45-1.3

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Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024
Section 45-1.3 - Definitions

As used in this Part (rule):

(a) Amusement park means a tract or area used principally as a permanent location for amusement devices or structures.
(b) Carnival means an itinerant enterprise consisting principally of temporary amusement devices or acrobatic or magic shows, games, stunts, or zoo animals operated to provide entertainment or amusement to the public.
(c) Fair means an enterprise principally devoted to the exhibition of the products of agriculture or industry and at which amusement devices, temporary structures, viewing stands or tents are provided for use by the public.
(d) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Labor of the State.
(e) Owner means a person, corporation, partnership or association who owns an amusement device, temporary structure, viewing stand or tent, or in the event that the amusement device, viewing stand or tent is leased, the lessee.
(f) Manager means a person having possession, custody, or managerial control of an amusement device, temporary structure, viewing stand or tent, at a carnival, fair or amusement park, whether as owner, lessee, agent or otherwise.
(g) Injury means any personal injury which results in medical treatment.
(h) Serious injury means a personal injury which results in death; dismemberment; significant disfigurement; a compound or comminuted fracture; or permanent loss of a body organ, member, function or system; or loss of consciousness resulting in hospitalization.
(i) Safety coordinator means a person suited by training or experience and designated by the owner or operator of an amusement park, fair or carnival as being in charge of the safety of all amusement devices located at the park, fair, or carnival.
(j) Severe centrifugal force means a force which could cause a serious injury to passengers, employees or bystanders should an amusement device, which operates with such force, cease to operate properly or should restraining mechanisms on the device fail.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 12 §§ 45-1.3