No person shall begin construction or substantial alteration of a public swimming pool until plans and specifications therefor have been approved by the approving authority; nor shall any person convert a private swimming pool to a public swimming pool without having the written approval of the approving authority.
(a) Before work is commenced on any construction, addition, remodeling or other improvement thereto, an application for permit to construct, the plans, specifications and pertinent explanatory data required shall be submitted to the approving authority in such manner and containing such information as the approving authority may require from time to time.
(b) The approving authority shall review the plans and specifications for compliance with physical standards of this chapter and shall either approve or disapprove them on that basis within thirty (30) days from the date of receipt of such plans and specifications. In the event that incomplete submissions of plans, specifications or information required to determine such compliance is made, the approving authority shall notify the applicant accordingly and the thirty-day period shall be deemed to commence from the date of receipt of the additional information.
(c) The approving authority shall not issue any building permit for a public swimming pool until the plans and specifications for such pool have been approved.
(d) The approval of plans and specifications by the approving authority may be either in the form of a suitable endorsement upon such plans and specifications or by a separate written document to that effect. In either case, the approval shall expire one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of issuance unless the pool is under construction and concurrently with the expiration of the building permit.
(e) All public swimming pools shall be constructed in accordance with the physical standards of this chapter and the approved plans and specifications. No change shall be made after the approval of plans without the written consent of the approving authority.
(f) No person shall operate or maintain a public swimming pool until a current and valid operating permit shall have been issued by the approving authority. The approving authority may issue such temporary operating permits as it may determine to be proper from time to time.
(g) An application for an annual operating permit, accompanied by the fee as hereinafter set, shall be submitted to the approving authority prior to the initial opening of the pool and upon each renewal thereafter at least thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the permit.
(h) An operating permit shall be issued by the approving authority upon a satisfactory finding that the swimming pool meets the requirements of this chapter. A permit shall remain in effect until April 30 of the year following issuance unless it has been revoked or suspended. When a valid application for permit renewal has been properly filed and the existing permit has not been suspended, revoked or denied by the approving authority, the existing permit shall continue in effect for not more than one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of expiration pending formal action by the approving authority on the renewal request.
(i) The operating permit may be revoked for repeated or continuing violations of the requirements of this chapter; provided, that the approving authority has given the owner notice in writing of the violations and opportunity for hearing before the approving authority to show cause why the revocation of the permit should not occur. Request for hearing, however, shall not entitle the owner or operator to continue operation of the swimming pool if the approving authority finds any conditions present as set forth in paragraph (j) or that the safety of the users of the pool requires it to be closed.
(j) Operating permits for a public swimming pool may be summarily suspended and the pool ordered closed by the approving authority upon a finding of any of the following conditions:
(1) The pool is being operated without adequate or responsible supervision.
(2) The turbidity of the water in the pool visually obscures the view of the main drain or the bottom of the pool when filled to its usual capacity.
(3) The level of the disinfectant in the pool is less or greater than specified in the manual on public swimming pool operations for adequate disinfections.
(4) The filtered water is not being delivered to the swimming pool for a period exceeding one (1) hour during the use of the pool.
(5) The bath house is not usable.
(6) The automatic disinfectant feeder has been inoperative in excess of twenty-four (24) hours. (1971 L.M.C., ch. 45, § 1; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 5; 1979 L.M.C., ch. 55, § 3; 1990 L.M.C., ch. 1, § 1.)
Editor's note-Section 1 of 1990 L.M.C., ch. 1, added the term "Public swimming pools" to the title of this section.