WAC 296-17A-6207
WAC 296-17A-6207. Classification 6207
6207-00 Traveling carnivals and amusement rides
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in operating traveling carnivals, operating mechanical and nonmechanical amusement rides, and automobile, motorcycle, and monster truck stunt shows.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
• Driving and mechanical work;
• Transporting the equipment or rides between locations;
• Setting up, maintaining, and tearing down the rides, structures, and equipment;
• Setting up or tearing down temporary structures such as, but not limited to:
- Aid rooms;
- Concession booths;
- Food booths;
- Game booths;
- Souvenir booths;
- Mobile offices; and
- Ticket booths.
Exclusions:
• Worker hours for office clerical employees assigned to a permanent office location with no outside duties are reported separately in classification 4904 provided all conditions of the general reporting rules covering standard exception employees have been met.
• Worker hours for traveling clerical employees who work out of a mobile office, ride operators, game attendants, ticket sellers/takers, and maintenance of facilities are reported separately in classification 6208.
• Worker hours for permanent shop employees, and those employees assigned to the shop during the winter quartering period, are reported separately in classification 5206-79 provided the conditions set forth in WAC 296-17A-5206 and 296-17-31018 have been met.
• Businesses operating mechanical or nonmechanical rides at permanent locations are classified in 6208.
• Businesses operating video or amusement game arcades at permanent locations, not in connection with an amusement park, are classified in 6406.
Note: For rules on assigning and reporting in more than one basic classification, see WAC 296-17-31017 , Multiple classifications.
6207-01 Rodeos and traveling circuses
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in operating a traveling circus or the production of rodeos.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
• Animal handling;
• Arena work;
• Circus performing;
• Driving;
• First aid;
• Gate opening;
• Preparing, operating, and maintaining equipment and facilities;
• Rodeo clown work;
• Setting up or tearing down mechanical and nonmechanical rides;
• Setting up or tearing down temporary structures such as, but not limited to:
- Aid rooms;
- Bleachers;
- Concession booths;
- Enclosures;
- Mobile offices; and
- Ticket booths.
• Ticket sellers/takers;
• Trainers; and
• Traveling clerical employees.
Exclusions:
• Worker hours for office clerical employees assigned to a permanent office location with no outside duties are reported separately in classification 4904 provided all conditions of the general reporting rules covering standard exception employees have been met.
• Stock handlers who contract with a rodeo producer to supply rodeo animals are classified in 7302.
Special note : Classifications 6208 and 5206 do not apply to rodeo and traveling circus operations.
6207-04 Fireworks exhibition
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in producing pyrotechnic exhibitions.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
• Cleaning up;
• Igniting the fireworks;
• Purchasing ready-made fireworks;
• Setting up displays; and
• Using timing fuses.
Exclusions:
• Businesses manufacturing fireworks are classified in 3701.