"Primitive Experience Camp" means a camp not served by any public electrical service providers and provides overnight outdoor primitive camping. Primitive Experience Camps include those camp establishments that provide food and overnight lodging accommodations for 72 consecutive hours or more per week at or from a permanent base camp for groups of children or adults engaged in overnight organized recreational or educational programs. Programs are operated and staffed by the camp and campgrounds or other facilities that only rent property or camp sites for camping.
Primitive Camp Rules
Primitive Camp Application
"Resident camp" includes camp establishments which provide food and overnight lodging accommodations for 72 consecutive hours or more per week at a permanent base of operations for groups of children or adults engaged in organized recreational or educational programs and has a permanent connection to a public electrical service provider. Programs are operated and staffed by the camp and supervision of individual campers is a camp responsibility. This definition does not include campgrounds or other facilities that only rent property or campsites for camping. This
definition does not include Primitive Experience Camp as defined in 15A NCAC 18A .3500. This definition does include Children's Foster Care Camps and Residential Therapeutic (Habilitative) Camps.
Resident Camp Rules
Resident Camp Application
"Summer camp" means those camp establishments which prepare or serve food for pay or provide overnight lodging accommodations for pay, for groups of children or adults engaged in organized recreational or educational programs. This definition does not include:
(a) those day camps required to obtain a license through DCDEE;
(b) Campgrounds or other facilities that only rent property or campsites for camping;
(c) Resident camps, Children's Foster Care Camps, and Residential Therapeutic
(Habilitative) Camps as defined in 15A NCAC 18A .3601; or
(d) Primitive experience camps as defined in 15A NCAC 18A .3501.
Summer Camp Rules
Summer Camp Application
"Day Camp" means a recreation program that offers care to three or more school-age children and operates for less than four consecutive months per year is considered a summer day camp. A center providing care for school-age children exclusively on a seasonal basis between May 15 and September 15 shall be licensed as a summer day
camp 10A NCAC 09 .2502. The law does not require summer day camps to be licensed. Operators, who wish to be eligible to receive payment through the subsidized child care program, are required to be licensed. Any children who are receiving subsidized child care services must be in a program that is licensed by the Division of Child Development and Early Education, DCDEE.
Day Camps that do not provide food or lodging to campers are exempt from Summer Camp Environmental Health Permits.
