Any city owned, operated or maintained playground open to the public which:
(a) Is newly constructed, established or resurfaced from and after the date this ordinance becomes effective; or
(b) Exists at the time this ordinance becomes effective, and which contains or is to contain playground equipment designed or intended for use by young children shall be surfaced with impact- cushioning material, which meets or exceeds the standards established pursuant to Section 10-36-170 below, underneath and surrounding any such playground equipment and shall not be surfaced with hard materials such as asphalt, cement, blacktop and like substances in those areas, except that with respect to playgrounds under (b) above whose surfaces do not conform to those standards, the city shall convert any such nonconforming surfaces to conforming surfaces at the rate of at least ten percent per year of the playgrounds with nonconforming surfaces as of the time this ordinance becomes effective.
(Prior code § 37-10.1; Added Coun. J. 4-1-87, p. 40692)