1131.01 Permit required.
1131.02 Location and distance from property lines.
1131.03 Barrier required.
1131.04 Areaway around pool.
1131.05 Lights.
1131.06 Ladders.
1131.07 Height of pool.
1131.08 Potable water supply system protection.
1131.09 Swimming pool water drainage.
1131.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Power to regulate fences - see Ohio R.C. 715.27
Fences around pools - see P. & Z. 997.04
Swimming pool permit fee - see BLDG. 1125.07(e)
Fence permit fee - see BLDG. 1125.07(k)
Landscaping services required - see BLDG. Ch. 1133
No person shall construct or install a swimming pool without first making application and obtain a permit therefor from the Building Commissioner. The applicant must submit plans showing the size, location, drainage, electrical and detail construction of the swimming pool. A site plan shall also be included showing the location of the pool in respect to the property lines, easements, and the existing dwellings. All permits for pools shall be issued by the Building Commissioner with no approval required by the Building Board. No permit shall be issued without the approval of the plans by the City Engineer. The plan review expenses incurred by the City Engineer shall be borne by the applicant prior to a permit being issued. The Building Commissioner shall have final approval of the foregoing construction requirements. (Ord. 21- 2001. Passed 7-9-01.)
(a) No permanent or temporary swimming or wading pool, greater in area than seventy-five square feet and not enclosed in a permanent building or like structure, shall be located, constructed or maintained closer to any street, lot or parcel, side or rear line, or another structure than as follows:
(1) All such pool shall be located, constructed or maintained in the rear yard. The rear yard is defined as a yard across the full width of the lot or parcel extending from back of the building to the rear property line.
(2) No such pool shall be located, constructed or maintained closer to any sideline than ten feet.
(3) No such pool shall be located, constructed or maintained closer to any rear lot or parcel line than ten feet.
(4) Pools shall not be located, constructed, or maintained within ten feet of another structure.
(Ord. 59-2004. Passed 9-27-04.)
(a) Every in-ground swimming or wading pool which is not enclosed in a permanent building or like structure, shall have erected around it a barrier of sufficient strength and of a height not less than four feet.
(b) Every above-ground swimming or wading pool which is greater in area than seventy-five square feet (ten feet in diameter), and which is not enclosed in a permanent building or like structure, shall have erected around it a barrier of sufficient strength and of a height not less than four feet.
Exception: If no point of the exterior perimeter of the pool or pool structure is less than four foot above grade or any point in the four foot areaway required by Section 1131.04, a barrier is not required.
(c) The required barrier shall not be composed of vegetation.
(d) Access to any such pools, ponds or other bodies of water shall be through a gate or gates in the barrier. Such gate or gates shall be equipped in such manner that they may be, and in fact, shall be securely locked except when in use by the owner or with the owner’s permission.
(e) If the barrier required above is a fence, the location of the fence shall be subject to any other ordinances regulating the placement, construction and maintenance of fences in the City as contained in Chapter 997.
(Ord. 59-2004. Passed 9-27-04.)
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