The following terms shall be construed as follows:

(1) “Department”  means the department of environmental management.

(2) “Industry”  means the activities of all those persons in the state who own or control the operation of passenger tramways.

(3) “Operator”  is a person who owns or controls the operation of a passenger tramway. The word “operator” includes the state or any political subdivision.

(4) “Passenger tramway”  means a device used to transport passengers uphill on skis or in cars on tracks or suspended in the air, by the use of steel cables, chains or belts or by ropes and usually supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans. The term “passenger tramway” includes the following:

(i) “Chair lift”  , a type of transportation 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.

(ii) “Jay bar, T bar, poma lift, platter pull, so called”  , and similar types of devices, are means of transportation which pull skiers riding on skis by means of an attachment to a main overhead cable supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans.

(iii) “Multi-car 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.

(iv) “Rope tow”  , a type of transportation which pulls the skiers riding on skis as the skier grasps the rope manually, or similar devices.

(v) “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.

(vi) “Two-car passenger tramway”  , a device used to transport passengers in two (2) 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.