§ 75D.001.Definitions

Five definitions for a 2025 chapter, and the first is drawn expansively.

"Water park" means a commercial property designed to provide swimming, bathing, or other water-related recreation, including swimming pools, water play areas, water slides, splash pads, spray grounds, and lazy rivers. The term includes associated facilities and services such as changing rooms, showers, hot tubs, saunas, indoor or outdoor spectator seating areas, picnic areas, and associated retail sales and services.

The associated-facilities clause extends the chapter well beyond the water. An injury in a changing room, on the seating, or in the retail area is within the definition, which distinguishes this chapter from the cavern one confined to activities inside the cavern.

"Water park participant" is correspondingly wide: an individual who attends a water park or engages in a water park activity. Mere attendance suffices — a parent watching from the side is a participant.

Employees remain excluded.

"Participant injury" covers loss arising from participation in a water park activity or attendance at a water park, matching the widened participant definition.

Together the three make this the broadest of the five chapters in what it covers, and the sign requirement is correspondingly simple — one sign at the entrance.