68-114-102 - Definitions.

68-114-102. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (1)  “Industry” means generally the activities of all ski area operators;

     (2)  “Passenger” means any person, while being transported or conveyed by a passenger tramway, or while waiting in the immediate vicinity for such transportation or conveyance, or while moving away from the disembarkation or unloading point of a passenger tramway to clear the way for the passengers following, or while in the act of boarding or embarking upon or disembarking from, a passenger tramway;

     (3)  “Passenger tramway” means those devices described in American National Standards Institute Code section B 77.1 1973 and supplements to the Code;

     (4)  “Ski area” means all the ski slopes and ski trails and passenger tramways administered or operated as a single enterprise within this state;

     (5)  “Ski area operator” means a person or organization having operational responsibility for any ski area, including an agency of this state or a political subdivision of this state; and

     (6)  “Skier” means any person present in a ski area for the purpose of engaging in the sport of skiing, Nordic, freestyle or other types of ski jumping and who is using skis, a sled, a tube or a snowboard.

[Acts 1978, ch. 701, § 2; T.C.A., §§ 53-6502, 68-48-102; Acts 2009, ch. 85, § 1.]