Title 29 — Title 29: Public Safety and State Police

Sec. 29-201. (Formerly Sec. 19-418a). Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) “Passenger tramway” means a device used to transport passengers in cars on tracks or suspended in the air, or uphill on skis, by the use of steel cables…

Sec. 29-202. (Formerly Sec. 19-418b). Requirements for passenger tramways in use. Each passenger tramway used or intended for use in this state shall be constructed, equipped, maintained and operated so as to transport passengers safely according to the provisions of this chapter…

Sec. 29-203. (Formerly Sec. 19-418c). Regulations, standards. The commissioner shall adopt reasonable regulations relating to public safety in the construction, operation, maintenance and inspection of passenger tramways. The regulations authorized hereunder shall conform as near…

Sec. 29-204. (Formerly Sec. 19-418d). Plans and specifications, submission, fee. Approval. Final inspection. No new passenger tramway shall be erected or installed and no passenger tramway shall be relocated or altered until detailed plans and specifications of the proposed const…

Sec. 29-205. (Formerly Sec. 19-418e). Registration of each passenger tramway required. The operator of each passenger tramway covered by this chapter shall register with the department each passenger tramway operated by him, giving such information concerning such tramway as the …

Sec. 29-206. (Formerly Sec. 19-418f). Operating certificate, inspections, fees. The department shall enforce the regulations adopted pursuant to section 29-203, and shall inspect the construction, operation and maintenance of passenger tramways to determine whether such regulatio…

Sec. 29-207. (Formerly Sec. 19-418g). Order to discontinue operation. Permission for resumption. If any passenger tramway is found to be, in the judgment of the department, dangerous to public safety or is being operated without the operating certificate required in section 29-20…

Sec. 29-208. (Formerly Sec. 19-418h). Complaints. Any person may make a written complaint to the commissioner setting forth any alleged violation of this chapter or of any regulation promulgated under the authority of this chapter, or setting forth any condition in a passenger tr…

Sec. 29-209. (Formerly Sec. 19-418i). Judicial review of commissioner's decisions. Any person aggrieved by any decision or order of the commissioner or department under the provisions of this chapter may appeal therefrom in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183, except …

Sec. 29-210. (Formerly Sec. 19-418j). Penalties. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or any of the regulations adopted hereunder shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars, and for each subse…

Sec. 29-211. (Formerly Sec. 19-418k). Duties of operator of passenger tramway or ski area. In the operation of a passenger tramway or ski area, each operator shall have the obligation to perform certain duties including, but not limited to: (1) Conspicuously marking all trail mai…

Sec. 29-212. (Formerly Sec. 19-418l). Assumption of risk of injury caused by hazards inherent in the sport of skiing. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Skier” includes any person who is using a ski area for the purpose of skiing or who is on the skiable terrain of a ski …

Sec. 29-213. (Formerly Sec. 19-418m). Prohibited conduct by skiers. No skier shall: (1) Intentionally drop, throw or expel any object from a passenger tramway; (2) do any act which shall interfere with the running or operation of a passenger tramway; (3) use a passenger tramway w…

Sec. 29-214. (Formerly Sec. 19-418n). Special defense to civil action against operator by skier. Section 29-214 is repealed, effective October 1, 2005. (P.A. 79-629, S. 5; P.A. 05-78, S. 3.)

Secs. 29-215 to 29-220. Reserved for future use.