WAC 246-361-010 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases will have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

аааа "Building" means any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy that may include cooking, eating, sleeping and sanitation facilities.

аааа "Cherry harvest camp" or "camp" means a place, area, or piece of land where dwelling units or camp sites are provided by an operator during the cherry harvest.

аааа "Common food-handling facility" means an area designated by the operator for occupants to store, prepare, cook, and eat their own food supplies.

аааа "Current certificate (first aid)" means a first-aid-training certificate that has not expired.

аааа "Department" means the Washington state department of health and/or the department of labor and industries.

аааа "Dining hall" means a cafeteria-type eating-place with food furnished by and prepared under the direction of the operator for consumption, with or without charge, by occupants.

аааа "Drinking fountain" means a fixture equal to a nationally recognized standard or a designed-to-drain faucet, which provides potable drinking water under pressure. "Drinking fountain" does not mean a bubble-type water dispenser.

аааа "Dwelling unit" means a shelter, building, or portion of a building, that may include cooking and eating facilities, which is:

аааа Х Provided and designated by the operator as either a sleeping area, living area, or both, for occupants; and

аааа Х Physically separated from other sleeping and common-use areas.

аааа Note: For the purpose of this chapter, a "tent" is considered a dwelling unit.

аааа "First-aid qualified" means that the person holds a current certificate of first-aid training from the American Red Cross or another course with equivalent content or hours.

аааа "Food-handling facility" means a designated, enclosed area for preparation of food.

аааа "Group A water system" means a public water system and includes community and noncommunity water systems.

аааа (a) A community water system means any Group A water system providing service to fifteen or more service connections used by year-round residents for one hundred eighty or more days within a calendar year, regardless of the number of people, or regularly serving at least twenty-five year-round (i.e., more than one hundred eighty days per year) residents.

аааа (b) Noncommunity water system means a Group A water system that is not a community water system. Noncommunity water systems are further defined as:

аааа (i) Nontransient (NTNC) water system that provides service opportunity to twenty-five or more of the same nonresidential people for one hundred eighty or more days within a calendar year.

аааа (ii) Transient (TNC) water system that serves:

аааа Х Twenty-five or more different people each day for sixty or more days within a calendar year;

аааа Х Twenty-five or more of the same people each day for sixty or more days, but less than one hundred eighty days within a calendar year; or

аааа Х One thousand or more people for two or more consecutive days within a calendar year.

аааа "Group B water system" means a public water system: Constructed to serve less than fifteen residential services regardless of the number of people; or constructed to serve an average nonresidential population of less than twenty-five per day for sixty or more days within a calendar year; or any number of people for less than sixty days within a calendar year.

аааа "Health officer" means the individual appointed as such for a local health department under chapter 70.05 RCW or appointed as the director of public health of a combined city-county health department under chapter 70.08 RCW.

аааа "Livestock" means horses, cows, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, etc.

аааа "Livestock operation" means any place, establishment, or facility consisting of pens or other enclosures in which livestock is kept for purposes including, but not limited to, feeding, milking, slaughter, watering, weighing, sorting, receiving, and shipping. Livestock operations include, among other things, dairy farms, corrals, slaughterhouses, feedlots, and stockyards. Operations where livestock can roam on a pasture over a distance may be treated as outside the definition.

аааа "MSPA" means the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (96 Stat. 2583; 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1801 et seq.).

аааа "Occupant" means a temporary worker or a person who resides with a temporary worker at the camp site.

аааа "Operating license" means a document issued annually by the department of health or contracted health officer authorizing the use of temporary-worker housing.

аааа "Operator" means a person holding legal title to the land on which the camp is located. However, if the legal title and the right to possession are in different persons, "operator" means a person having the lawful control or supervision over the camp.

аааа "Recreational park trailers" means a trailer-type unit that is primarily designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or seasonal use, that meets the following criteria:

аааа Х Built on a single chassis, mounted on wheels;

аааа Х Having a gross trailer area not exceeding 400 square feet (37.15 square meters) in the set-up mode; and

аааа Х Certified by the manufacturer as complying with ANSI A119.5.

аааа "Recreational vehicle" means a vehicular type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational camping, travel, or seasonal use that either has its own mode of power or is mounted on, or towed by, another vehicle. Recreational vehicles include: Camping trailers, fifth-wheel trailers, motor homes, travel trailers, and truck campers, but does not include pickup trucks with camper shells, canopies, or other similar coverings.

аааа "Refuse" means solid wastes, rubbish, or garbage.

аааа "Temporary worker" means an agricultural employee employed intermittently and not residing year-round at the same site.

аааа "Tent" means an enclosure or shelter constructed of fabric or pliable material composed of rigid framework to support tensioned membrane that provides the weather barrier.

аааа "WISHA" means the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act, chapter 49.17 RCW, administered by the Washington state department of labor and industries.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.114A.110 and 2002 c 23. 02-23-071, з 246-361-010, filed 11/19/02, effective 1/1/03. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.114A.065 and 70.114A.110. 00-06-082, з 246-361-010, filed 3/1/00, effective 3/1/00.]