35.1-1 - Definitions.
§ 35.1-1. Definitions.
As used in this title unless the context requires otherwise or it isotherwise provided:
1. "Board" or "State Board" means the State Board of Health.
2. "Campground" means and includes but is not limited to a travel trailercamp, recreation camp, family campground, camping resort, camping community,or any other area, place, parcel, or tract of land, by whatever name called,on which three or more campsites are occupied or intended for occupancy, orfacilities are established or maintained, wholly or in part, for theaccommodation of camping units for periods of overnight or longer, whetherthe use of the campsites and facilities is granted gratuitously, or by rentalfee, lease, or conditional sale, or by covenants, restrictions, andeasements. "Campground" does not include a summer camp, migrant labor camp,or park for mobile homes as defined in this section and in §§ 32.1-203 and36-71, or a construction camp, storage area for unoccupied camping units, orproperty upon which the individual owner may choose to camp and not beprohibited or encumbered by covenants, restrictions, and conditions fromproviding his sanitary facilities within his property lines.
3. "Camping unit" means and includes a tent, tent trailer, travel trailer,camping trailer, pickup camper, motor home, and any other device or vehiculartype structure for use as temporary living quarters or shelter during periodsof recreation, vacation, leisure time, or travel.
4. "Campsite" means and includes any plot of ground within a campgroundused or intended for occupation by the camping unit.
5. "Commissioner" means the State Health Commissioner.
6. "Department" means the State Department of Health.
7. "Hotel" means any place offering to the public for compensationtransitory lodging or sleeping accommodations, overnight or otherwise,including but not limited to facilities known by varying nomenclatures ordesignations as hotels, motels, travel lodges, tourist homes, or hostels.
8. "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, orany other legal entity.
9. "Restaurant" means any one of the following:
a. Any place where food is prepared for service to the public on or off thepremises, or any place where food is served. Examples of such places includebut are not limited to lunchrooms, short order places, cafeterias, coffeeshops, cafes, taverns, delicatessens, dining accommodations of public orprivate clubs, kitchen facilities of hospitals and nursing homes, diningaccommodations of public and private schools and colleges, and kitchen areasof local correctional facilities subject to standards adopted under §53.1-68. Excluded from the definition are places manufacturing packaged orcanned foods which are distributed to grocery stores or other similar foodretailers for sale to the public.
b. Any place or operation which prepares or stores food for distribution topersons of the same business operation or of a related business operation forservice to the public. Examples of such places or operations include but arenot limited to operations preparing or storing food for catering services,push cart operations, hotdog stands, and other mobile points of service. Suchmobile points of service are also deemed to be restaurants unless the pointof service and of consumption is in a private residence.
10. "Summer camp" means and includes any building, tent, or vehicle, orgroup of buildings, tents, or vehicles, if operated as one place orestablishment, or any other place or establishment, public or private,together with the land and waters adjacent thereto, which is operated or usedin this Commonwealth for the entertainment, education, recreation, religiousinstruction or activities, physical education, or health of persons undereighteen years of age who are not related to the operator of such place orestablishment by blood or marriage within the third degree of consanguinityor affinity, if twelve or more such persons at any one time are accommodated,gratuitously or for compensation, overnight and during any portion of morethan two consecutive days.
(Code 1950, §§ 35-1, 35-25, 35-43, 35-54; 1960, c. 186; 1964, c. 327; 1981,c. 468; 1995, c. 797.)