Section 386.02. Definitions.

  The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter.

(1)  "Department" means the department of safety and professional services.

(2)  "Approved" means written approval from the department.

(3)  "Boat" means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane, on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, s. 30.50 (2) , Stats.

(4)  "Deodorant" means a substance or process which masks or destroys offensive odor.

(5)  "Holding tank" means a permanently installed container which receives the discharge from one toilet or more and retains the sewage for shore disposal.

(6)  "Maintain and operate" means to moor and occupy or to navigate, steer, sail, row or otherwise to exercise physical control over the use or movement of a boat.

(7)  "Owner" means the person who has lawful possession of a boat by virtue of legal title or equitable interest therein which entitles that person to such possession.

(8)  "Portable toilet" means a self-contained unit with a flushing device which retains sewage in a holding tank for disposal to a sewage system acceptable to the department.

(9)  "Recirculating system" means a holding tank with all necessary appurtenances to provide for the recirculation of flushing liquid and for the receiving, venting and shore removal of sewage.

(10)  "Sealed" means making a toilet incapable of discharging sewage into the waters upon which a boat is operated or moored.

(11)  "Sewage" means human body wastes.

(12)  "Toilet" means any device, facility or installation designed or constructed for use as a place for receiving sewage directly from the human body.

History: Cr. Register, September, 1980, No. 297 , eff. 10-1-80; renum. from H 80.02 and am. (1) Register, May, 1983, No. 329 , eff. 6-1-83; correction in (3) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register, April, 2000, No. 532 ; correction in (1) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6., Stats., Register December 2011 No. 672 .