10-36-150 City playgrounds – Surfaces.

   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)

10-36-160 City playgrounds – Inspection.

   The department of building services shall inspect such city owned, operated or maintained playground equipment and surfaces at least annually, keep records of such inspections, and promptly cause the removal, repair or replacement of any broken or unsafe equipment or damaged or worn out surfacing material.

(Prior code § 37-10.2; Added Coun. J. 4-1-87, p. 40692)

10-36-170 City playgrounds – Standards.

   The department of building services shall within 30 days after this ordinance becomes effective establish and promulgate standards for impact-cushioning surfaces to be installed beneath and around playground equipment designed or intended for use by young children. Such standards shall conform at a minimum to those of the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment for multiple drops from heights of at least ten feet, and no surfacing material to be installed shall consist of loose particulate materials or other materials readily subject to cratering on impact.

(Prior code § 37-10.3; Added Coun. J. 4-1-87, p. 40692)

10-36-180 City playgrounds – Signs.

   Any city playground with equipment designed or intended for use by young children shall display warning signs in bold lettering to alert parents or guardians of such children to the following:

   (a)   That children under the age of five should not play or near the equipment;

   (b)   That no person should go barefoot in the playground;

   (c)   That inappropriate use of or overcrowding on equipment may result in injury.

(Prior code § 37-10.4; Added Coun. J. 4-1-87, p. 40692)