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For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall be defined as follows:

Commercial helicopter ski tour” or “helicopter ski tour” means a commercial tour that includes: (1) downhill skiing or snowboarding as the primary experience; and (2) professionally guided skiing and snowboarding; and (3) daily transportation of the customer by helicopter to and from the skiing or snowboarding area.

Commercial helicopter tour” means a commercial helicopter operation, other than a commercial ski tour or commercial ski production, that provides a helicopter-assisted tour to or through an area.

Commercial ski production” means the professional filming or photographing of persons while skiing or snowboarding for the creation of a film or photography product featuring skiing or snowboarding as the primary subject.

Commercial ski tour” means a commercial tour that: (1) includes downhill skiing or snowboarding as the primary experience; and (2) includes professionally guided skiing and snowboarding; and (3) includes daily transportation of the customer by all means other than helicopter to and from the skiing or snowboarding area as frequently as weather permits.

Commercial tour” means the selling and/or providing of guided or escorted services that last less than 24 hours without including an overnight stay and are offered for sale and sold by an agent or operator at a predetermined price.

Expanded tour” means a tour which is more than 10 percent larger than the number of customers requested in the original permit application or new areas not requested in the original permit application.

Fair vendor permit” means a permit issued under this chapter to vendors selling for a period of one week or less at an event sponsored by the Southeast Alaska State Fair and taking place at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds. Vendors with a valid Haines Borough business license are not required to purchase a fair vendor permit.

Itinerant” or “transient merchant” means a person whose principal place of business is not within the Haines Borough, but who travels through the area selling goods from stock carried with the person or providing services for valuable consideration.

Permit” used as a noun means a fair vendor permit issued under this title, an itinerant merchant permit issued under Chapter 5.08 HBC, a commercial tour permit issued under Chapter 5.18 HBC, a commercial passenger or tour vehicle parking permit issued under Chapter 5.22 HBC, or a commercial helicopter ski tour or production permit issued under Chapter 5.24 HBC.

Permittee” or “permit holder” means an entity that has been issued a permit.

Primary activity” means hiking; nonmotorized water craft; motorized water craft; motorized vehicles; van, shuttle or bus tour; or miscellaneous/other tour.

Revoke” or “revocation” means that a permit is permanently voided and, unless otherwise provided, the permittee to whom it was issued may not be issued any other permit under this title for a period of one year from the date the revocation is effective.

Skier day” means one individual skier, snowboarder, photographer or a member of the photographer’s staff participating in a commercial ski tour or a commercial ski production on one particular day or any portion of a day excluding guides.

Special ski competition event” means a scheduled event (which lasts no more than two weeks), marketed athletic ski event sponsored by an entity that creates a venue for skiers and/or snowboarders to compete for awards of recognized value.

Suspend” or “suspension” means that a permit is invalid for a specified portion of its term, and the permittee to whom it was issued may not be issued any other permit under this title during the suspension period. A suspension may be conditioned on correction of a status or condition of a person or a vehicle. (Ord. 22-02-608 § 4; Ord. 20-03-562 § 6; Ord. 18-09-512 § 5)