347.01 DEFINITIONS.

   The following definitions, terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall apply to this chapter:

   (a)   "Director" means the Director of Building and Housing of the City of Shaker Heights or the Director's authorized representative.

   (b)   "Commissioner of Building" means the Commissioner of Building of the City of Shaker Heights or said Commissioner's authorized representative.

   (c)   "Family swimming pool" means an artificial body of water, with a controlled water supply over eighteen (18) inches in depth or two hundred (200) square feet of surface area, and used or intended to be used solely by the owner or lessee thereof and his family, and by friends invited to use it without payment of any fee, and does not include any pool regulated by Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3749.

   (d)   "Private wading pool" means an artificial body of water with a controlled water supply, not exceeding eighteen (18) inches in depth or two hundred (200) square feet in surface area, and used collectively by numbers of persons for wading, and used or intended to be used solely by the owner or lessee thereof and his family, and by friends invited to use it, without payment of any fee, and does not include any pool regulated by Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3749. Such family wading pools are further defined as follows:

      (1)   "Portable wading pool" means a container which is designed or used for wading purposes and which may be dismantled, stored or moved from one place to another, and does not include any pool regulated by Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3749.

      (2)   "Permanent wading pool" means a container which is designed or used for wading purposes, built either upon or below the level of the ground, which is not designed or intended to be readily dismantled, stored or moved from one place to another, and does not include any pool regulated by Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3749.

   (e)   "Hydrotherapy spa" means a unit designed for recreational and therapeutic use which is not drained, cleaned or refilled for each user, such as a therapeutic pool, hydrotherapy pool, whirlpool, hot spa, or hot tub, and does not include any unit regulated by Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3749. A hydrotherapy spa may include, but not be limited to, hydrojet circulation, hot water, cold water mineral baths, air induction bubbles or some combination thereof.

      (Ord. 17-91. Enacted 11-13-17.)