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As used in this chapter:
(a) “Public swimming pool” means an artificial body of water with a controlled water supply, used collectively by numbers of persons for swimming or recreative bathing, but not including family swimming pools or club swimming pools.
(b) “Family swimming pool” means an artificial body of water with a controlled water supply over eighteen inches in depth, or 200 square feet of surface area, and used or intended to be used solely by the owner or lessee thereof, and his or her family, and by friends invited to use it without payment of any fee.
(c) “Private swimming pool” means an artificial body of water with a controlled water supply over eighteen inches in depth or 200 square feet of surface area, owned directly or indirectly and operated by a small number of families (not to exceed twenty-five) and used and intended to be used solely by cooperating families and by friends invited to use it without payment of any fee.
(d) “Club swimming pool” means an artificial body of water with a controlled water supply used collectively by numbers of persons for swimming or recreative bathing where such persons are members of a club or association having twenty-five or more members, or families of club members, or guests of club members, and where the public is otherwise excluded.
(Ord. 154-1965. Passed 7-7-65.)
Before work is commenced on the construction of a swimming pool, or on any alteration, addition, remodeling or other improvement thereto, an application for a permit to construct, together with plans and specifications and pertinent explanatory data, shall be submitted to the Commissioner of Buildings for approval and no part of the work shall be commenced until the Commissioner of Buildings has evidenced his or her approval by a suitable endorsement upon such plans and specifications and has granted a permit therefor. The fee for such permit shall be computed at the rate of three dollars ($3.00) per 100 square feet or fraction thereof of the ground area occupied by the pool structure with a minimum fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00). Such fee is in addition to permit fees applicable to other structures which may be incidental to the swimming pool, or plumbing, sewering or wiring connections therewith. Abutting property owners shall be notified five days prior to the issuance of a permit.
Every swimming pool constructed after passage of this chapter shall be provided with an overflow trough not less than two and one-half inches wide and extending around the entire margin of the pool. This trough shall be connected with a public sewer, and no water flowing into such trough shall return to the pool. The entire bottom of every such pool shall slope with a fall of not less than one-quarter inch per running foot to an outlet connected with a public sewer.
(Ord. 154-1965. Passed 7-7-65.)
No swimming pool or pool for cleansing purposes shall be used or maintained unless all of the requirements of this chapter are complied with. No swimming pool shall be constructed within ten feet of any property line or in front of a building line, or within thirty feet of the adjacent property owner's dwelling if located in a side yard area. Only family swimming pools or private swimming pools shall be constructed in a single-family or two-family use district and the water area of such pool shall not occupy an area greater than twenty-five percent of the rear lot area remaining after the area of the garage structure has been subtracted from the area of the rear lot. “Rear lot area” means that area between the back building line of the principal building and the rear lot line.
No pool shall be constructed having a height above grade greater than four feet, except that a handrail no higher than seven feet above grade shall be permitted, at the discretion of the Building Commissioner, who shall use as his or her standards the considerations of safety and esthetics contained in this chapter. There shall be steps or a ladder allowing ingress and egress for every forty feet of perimeter of the pool, provided that one ladder or set of steps shall be provided for all pools contemplated by this chapter.
(Ord. 154-1965. Passed 7-7-65.)
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