1331.12 ENCLOSURE OF SWIMMING POOL.

   Every outdoor swimming pool shall be completely surrounded by a fence not less than six feet in height for public swimming pools and not less than four feet in height for family swimming pools, which shall be constructed so that horizontal members are on the pool side of the enclosure and vertical members are not spaced more than two inches apart. A building or existing wall may be used as part of such enclosure.

   All gates or doors opening through such enclosure shall be designed to permit locking and shall be kept locked when the pool is not in actual use or is left unattended.

   These requirements shall apply to both new and existing permanent type outdoor swimming pools having a maximum depth of twenty-four inches or over, except that owners of existing outdoor pools shall be given a reasonable period, not to exceed one year from the effective date of this section (Ordinance 1964-56, passed July 21, 1964), in which to comply. No person in possession of land within the City, either as owner, purchaser, lessee, tenant or a licensee, upon which is situated a permanent swimming pool having a maximum depth over eighteen inches or a portable swimming pool having a maximum depth of twenty-four inches or over, shall fail to provide and maintain such fence or wall as herein provided.

   The Director of Public Safety and the Building Commissioner may make modifications in individual cases, upon a showing of good cause, with respect to the height, nature or location of the fence, gates or latches or the necessity therefor, provided the protection as sought hereunder is not reduced thereby. The Directors may permit other protective devices or structures to be used so long as the degree of protection afforded by the substitute devices or structures is not less than the protection afforded by the wall, fence, gate and latch described herein.

(Ord. 64-56. Passed 7-21-64.)

PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS