Ohio Code 4169.07 – Responsibilities of ski area operator and tramway passengers
(A) A ski area operator shall be responsible for any construction that the operator actually performs or has actually performed and for the maintenance and operation of any passenger tramway in the operator’s ski area.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4169.07
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- Passenger: means any person who is being transported or conveyed by a passenger tramway. See Ohio Code 4169.01
- Passenger tramway: includes all of the following:
(1) Aerial passenger tramway, a device used to transport passengers in several 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;
(2) 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;
(3) Chair lift, a device 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. See Ohio Code 4169.01
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Ski area: means all the ski slopes, ski trails, and passenger tramways that are administered or operated as a single enterprise within this state. See Ohio Code 4169.01
- Ski area operator: means a person or organization that is responsible for the operation of a ski area, including an agency of this state or of a political subdivision thereof. See Ohio Code 4169.01
(B) A passenger shall be responsible for not embarking upon or disembarking from a passenger tramway except at an area that is designated for such purpose; not throwing or expelling any object from a passenger tramway; not performing any action that interferes with the running or operation of a passenger tramway; learning how to use a passenger tramway safely before the time that the passenger desires to embark upon it; not using such a tramway unless the passenger has the ability to use it safely without any on-the-spot instruction from the ski area operator; not engaging willfully or negligently in any type of conduct that contributes to or causes injury to another person; and not embarking upon a passenger tramway without the authority of the ski area operator.