West Virginia Code 21-15-4 – Responsibilities of participants; prohibited acts
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(a) It is the duty of each participant to participate as instructed by the operator.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 21-15-4
- Operator: means any person, partnership, corporation or other commercial entity and their agents, officers, employees or representatives, who has operational responsibility for any zipline or canopy tour. See West Virginia Code 21-15-2
- Participant: means any person who engages in activities on a zipline or canopy tour individually or in a group activity supervised by a zipline or canopy tour operator. See West Virginia Code 21-15-2
- Person: means one or more individuals. See West Virginia Code 21-3A-2
- Zipline: means a commercial recreational activity where participants, by the use of a permanent cable or rope line suspended between support structures, enables a participant attached to a pulley to traverse from one point to another, for the purpose of giving the participants amusement, pleasure, thrills or excitement. See West Virginia Code 21-15-2
(b) Participants have a duty to act as would a reasonably prudent person when engaging in the sport of ziplining or canopy touring offered by a operator.
(c) No participant may:
(1) Use a zipline or canopy tour without the authority, supervision and guidance of the zipline operator;
(2) Drop, throw or expel any object from a zipline or canopy tour except as authorized by the operator;
(3) Perform any act which interferes with the running or operation of a zipline or canopy tour; or
(4) Engage in any harmful conduct, or willfully or negligently engage in any type of conduct with contributes to cause injury to any person.