The management of every organized camp covered by Chapter 416
of the Acts of 1939 shall annually apply for a license in writing to the Board
of Health. This application shall state the location and type of camp,
the approximate maximum number of persons by whom it is to be used,
the probable duration of occupancy, the proposed sources of water
and milk supply for the camp and the proposed method of sewage and
garbage disposal. If the camp is used the year around, such application
shall be made annually not later than January 1 or, if used during
only a portion of the year, at least 30 days in advance of the date
when the requested license is desired to take effect.
Every camp shall have available for inspection a plan or sketch
indicating the location of all local sources of water supply and other
sanitary facilities, including all toilets, cesspools and receptacles
for garbage refuse, and signs shall be posted indicating the location
of such facilities.
The quality and handling of all food sold or offered for sale
on the camp premises shall conform to the regulations of the Board
of Health and to the Tercentenary Edition of the General Laws as amended
or as may hereafter be amended.
No bathing place shall be established or used which is subject
to dangerous contamination. Swimming and wading pools and bathing
places shall be operated and maintained in accordance with recommendations
of the Joint Committee on Bathing Places of the Conference of State
Sanitary Engineers and the American Public Health Association.
Camps provided with shower baths shall have separate compartments
for each sex. A minimum of one shower head for each sex shall be provided
for camps up to 20 persons, and one additional head for each additional
20 persons or fraction thereof. Concrete floors and suitable wastewater
disposal shall also be installed.
Whenever a case of disease dangerous to the public is discovered
or any unusual amount of illness occurs in any camp, the person in
charge shall at once notify the Board of Health. The patient shall
be isolated and not removed from the camp except by order of the Board
of Health.
The foregoing regulations shall apply to trailer camps or parks.
The following special regulations also shall apply.
A. Each trailer unit shall have an area of not less than 600 square
feet, with suitable markers set at each comer. No units shall be permitted
to accommodate more than one trailer. The minimum distance between
trailers, a trailer and a building or a trailer and a property line
shall be 10 feet. The minimum distance from a street line to a trailer
shall be 15 feet.
B. No toilet installed in any trailer coach shall, except in a case
of sickness, be used while the trailer is parked in a trailer camp.
Sink and other wastes shall not be discharged onto the ground, but
shall be discharged into a suitable receptacle or through a connection
with a pipe leading to a sewer, cesspool or other subsurface disposal
works.
Section 32E of Chapter 416 of the Acts of 1939 reads as follows:
Whoever conducts, controls, manages or operates any camp or
cabin subject to Sections 32A to 32C, inclusive, which is not licensed
under Section 32B, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10
nor more than $100.
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