PDFWAC 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.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 51.04.020 and 51.16.035. WSR 22-21-117, § 296-17A-6207, filed 10/18/22, effective 1/1/23; WSR 15-11-063, § 296-17A-6207, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15; WSR 14-17-085, § 296-17A-6207, filed 8/19/14, effective 9/19/14; WSR 13-11-128, § 296-17A-6207, filed 5/21/13, effective 7/1/13. WSR 07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-6207, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. WSR 99-18-068, § 296-17-693, filed 8/31/99, effective 10/1/99; WSR 98-18-042, § 296-17-693, filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; WSR 96-12-039, § 296-17-693, filed 5/31/96, effective 7/1/96; WSR 86-12-041 (Order 86-18), § 296-17-693, filed 5/30/86, effective 7/1/86; WSR 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-693, filed 11/27/85, effective 1/1/86; WSR 85-06-026 (Order 85-7), § 296-17-693, filed 2/28/85, effective 4/1/85; Order 77-27, § 296-17-693, filed 11/30/77, effective 1/1/78; Order 73-22, § 296-17-693, filed 11/9/73, effective 1/1/74.]