23-2-702. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Area" means the area, terrain, or ski slopes served by a passenger tramway.
     (2) "Board" means the board of passenger tramway safety provided for in 2-15-1896.
     (3) "Industry" means the passenger tramway business activities of all those persons in the state who own, manage, or direct the operation of passenger tramways.
     (4) "Operator" means a person, including any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof, who owns, manages, or directs the operation of a passenger tramway.
     (5) "Passenger tramway" means a device used to transport passengers by means of any of the following:
     (a) two-car aerial passenger tramway, a device used to transport passengers in two open or enclosed cars attached to and suspended from a moving wire rope or attached to a moving wire rope and supported on a standing wire rope or similar devices;
     (b) multicar aerial passenger tramway, a device used to transport passengers in several open or enclosed cars or carrying device attached to and suspended from a moving wire rope or attached to a moving wire rope and supported on a standing wire rope or similar devices;
     (c) skimobile, a device in which a passenger car running on steel or wooden tracks is attached to and pulled by a steel cable or similar devices;
     (d) chair lift, a type of transportation on which passengers are carried on chairs suspended in the air and attached to a moving cable, chain, or link belt supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans or similar devices;
     (e) a J-bar, T-bar, or platterpull, so-called, and similar types of devices or means of transportation which pull skiers riding on skis by means of an attachment to a main overhead cable supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans;
     (f) rope tow, a type of transportation which pulls the skier, riding on skis as the skier grasps the rope or wire rope manually, or similar devices.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 436, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 53, Ch. 511, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 69-6602; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 90, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 483, L. 1989.