Section 8-6-2 Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Advertise” or “advertisement” means any message in any printed materials or electronic media used in the marketing and messaging of outfitter operations.
“Commercial outfitter” or “outfitter” means any person advertising to provide or providing outdoor recreation services in the nature of facilities, guide services, instruction in outdoor recreation skills, or transportation for the purpose of outdoor recreation; except that “commercial outfitter” or “outfitter” does not include any person whose only service is providing motor vehicles, vessels, and other equipment for rent, or any person who is providing outdoor recreation services exclusively for family or friends outside of a regulated trip.
“Commercial outfitter permit” means a permit issued by the Town of Clarkdale to any person advertising to provide or providing outdoor recreation services in the nature of facilities, guide services, providing instruction in outdoor recreation skills, or providing transportation for the purpose of outdoor recreation on public lands owned or operated by the Town of Clarkdale.
“Guide” means any individual, including but not limited to subcontractors, employed for compensation by any outfitter for the purpose of providing assistance on regulated trips.
“Guide instructor” means any qualified guide whose job responsibilities include the training of guides.
“Peace officer” means any town, city, county and State law enforcement officer certified by the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board.
“Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, nonprofit corporation or organization, limited liability company, firm, association, or other legal entity either located within or outside of this State.
“Regulated activity” means any activity for which outdoor recreation services are provided which has been the subject of an advertisement or for which a fee has been charged regardless of whether such fee is:
1. Charged exclusively for the activity or as part of a packaged activity, trip, recreational excursion, or camp; or
2. Calculated to monetarily profit the outfitter or is calculated merely to offset some or all of the actual costs of the activity.
“Regulated activity” does not include a trip in which a person is providing outdoor recreation services exclusively for family or friends as part of a social gathering of such family or friends.
“Skill instructor” means any person who is providing instruction in outdoor recreation skills.
“Trip leader” means any guide whose job responsibilities include being placed in charge of a regulated trip.
“Vessel” means every description of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation of persons and property on the water, other than single-chambered air-inflated devices or seaplanes.
“Watercraft” means any boat designed to be propelled by machinery, oars, paddles or wind action upon a sail for navigation on water, or as may be defined by rule of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission, in compliance with A.R.S. § 5-301.21. [Resolution #1491, 2015; Ordinance #365, 2015; prior code § 8-7-2.]