The following operation and maintenance requirements shall be observed by all holders of pool licenses within the city.
(a) Safety of bathers.
(1) All reasonable precautions shall be taken to protect the users of pools from injury or accident.
(2) Convenient means of ingress and egress shall be provided and the depth of the water and any irregularities of the bottom shall be clearly indicated. Safety appliances such as lifebuoys, life hooks, bamboo poles, or ropes and equipment, including first-aid kits, shall be provided and be readily accessible.
(b) Unnecessary noise. No person shall make, continue or cause to be made or continued at any pool, any loud, unnecessary or unusual noise, or any noise which annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others. In the operation of a pool, no person shall use or permit the use of or the operation of any radio, receiving set, musical instrument, phonograph or other machine or device for the production or reproduction of sound in such a manner as to disturb the peace, quiet and comfort of the neighboring inhabitants.
(c) Commercial activities. The carrying on of any commercial activities entailing sales of food, drinks or other merchandise within the enclosures of any pool is prohibited.
(d) Chlorination. Chlorination shall be accomplished in such a manner that the amount of excess or residual chlorine in all parts of the pool at all times when the pool is in use shall not be less than four-tenths parts per million, or more than one part per million.
(e) Quality of water. The bacterial quality of water shall be maintained so that no two successive samples nor more than 15% of any number of successive samples shall contain more than 200 bacteria per cubic centimeter, nor show positive confirmed results of coliform bacteria. The Director of Health may require samples to be taken and submitted for test whenever considered necessary for the safe operation of any pool.
(f) Operating personnel; lifeguards. Each pool shall be operated under the supervision of a responsible adult who shall be capable of making field tests, such as residual chlorine, and who shall be thoroughly familiar with the operation of all mechanical appurtenances of the pool. Any such operator shall, upon request by the Health Department, demonstrate his or her ability to perform the requirements of this provision. At public pools, as defined in this chapter, an adequate number of life guards, at least one, shall be on duty during swimming periods to allow a complete view of the entire pool. The quality, training and number of such lifeguards shall be as specified by the American Red Cross or YMCA standards, or other like standards prescribed by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Health Department.
(g) Hours of operation; rules: posting of rules. No pool shall be used between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. All public pools as defined by this chapter shall have specified swimming periods. No person shall swim or use a public swimming pool except during the swimming periods specified by the owner thereof or his or her agent. Children under the age of 12 shall swim or use public pools only when accompanied by at least one parent or other responsible adult for every five children during the specified swimming periods. All public swimming pools shall have the following conspicuously posted at the premises of the pool: the specified swimming period hours; “No swimming unless lifeguard on duty”; and “Children under 12 years must be accompanied by responsible adult”.
(h) Cleanliness and operating condition of equipment. Every pool shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition, and all equipment shall be maintained in a satisfactory operating condition during the periods in which the pool is in use.
(i) Nuisance. No pool shall be used, kept, maintained or operated in the city if such using, keeping, maintaining or operating shall occasion a nuisance or shall be dangerous to life or detrimental to health.
(j) Indecent exposure. Every person using a pool must wear a bathing suit or other suitable garment to protect his or her person from indecent exposure.
(Ord. 5260, passed 5-31-1960; Ord. 6351, passed 5-3-1972) Penalty, see § 1319.99