County Health Department Issues “Mass Gathering” Rule
The Belmont County Board of Health announced on its social media account this week that the board passed a new regulation at the group’s June Board of Health meeting to require any temporary mass gathering lasting longer than 6 hours with over 200 people to apply for a permit to hold the gathering.
The post identifies a temporary mass gathering as “an assembly of Two Hundred (200) or more people for a limited time which is not sponsored by the state or any of its political subdivisions nor any agency of either and which continues for six (6) hours or more in a place which is not designed and constructed for such type assembly and is not a licensed Campground or Manufactured Home Park as defined in the Ohio Administrative Code and is not a motel or hotel as defined in Section 3731.01 of the Revised Code”.
This rule does not apply to stadiums, athletic fields, arenas, banquet/reception halls and government sponsored fairgrounds.
The new regulation and application is posted to the agency’s website under the Environmental section.
According to the announcement, the “new regulation is to provide a safe and sanitary environment to hold a temporary mass gathering in the county”.
For additional information on the new regulation, please contact the Belmont County Health Department by phone at 740-695-1202.
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