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Outdoor Amusement Business Association

Your Voice in the Mobile Amusement Industry

Our Mission: To encourage the growth and preservation of the outdoor amusement industry through leadership, legislation, education and membership services.

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  • ACTION ALERT!

    Changes to “Summer Work and Travel Program” (J-1 VISA) The OABA reports that the U.S. State Department has sucker punched the mobile amusement industry with a recent rule change prohibiting J-1 visa, foreign students from traveling and working during the summer, without the opportunity for public comment. The timing of such exclusion couldn’t be worse for the…
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    DOT Update

    FMCSA Issues Final Rule On Medical Examiner Certification The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has published a final rule to establish a National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners.  77 Federal Register 24104 (April 20, 2012).  Compliance with the new requirements is allowed after May 21, 2012, but becomes mandatory two years later, on May 21,…
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    State Regulatory Update

    ILLINOIS Senator Mike Noland (D-Elgin) introduced legislation on behalf of the OABA to expand the Carnival and Amusement Ride Safety Board to nine members so there would be an odd number for voting purposes and specified in the legislation that this spot would be held by an operator of amusement rides. Under Senator Noland’s proposal,…
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    OABA H-2B Initiative “Three or the Fee”

    The OABA is urging all of you who participate in the federal Department of Labor’s H-2B, temporary, foreign worker program to continue to support this “Three or the Fee” lobbying and litigation funding initiative by completing and returning the attached Questionnaire. Please don’t sit back and wait for someone else to do this for you! …
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