[Amended 6-30-1986 by Ord. No. 1960]
The following rules and regulations adopted
by the Department of Health of the Township of Haverford at a meeting
duly held on October 14, 1964, and known as the "Code Governing the
Operation and Maintenance of Public Bathing Places in the Township
of Haverford," be and the same are hereby approved and adopted.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BATHING PLACE
Any body of water used by the public for swimming and recreational
bathing and shall include but not be limited to indoor and outdoor
pools and wading pools, whether operated for profit or not. This term
does not include baths where the main object is the cleansing of the
body or the practice of healing under medical supervision, unless
such baths contain pools or tanks used collectively by a number of
individuals.
CLEAN WATER
New clean water used to fill the pool, refill the pool or
replenish the pool.
OPERATOR
The person responsible for the operation and maintenance
of a bathing place.
STANDARD METHODS OF WATER ANALYSIS
All applicable procedures and methods recorded in the latest
issue of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage,
published by the American Public Health Association.
[Amended 6-30-1986 by Ord. No. 1960]
A. Every person who constructs or installs or intends
to construct or install or who desires to extend, alter or modify
a bathing place shall have plans and specifications for such construction,
installation, alteration, extension or modification approved in writing
by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and by the Director of Code
Enforcement of the Township of Haverford before beginning the work
or before permitting the work to be started by a contractor or any
employee.
B. The application for approval of plans required above
shall contain complete plans and specifications fully describing the
bathing place or extension, alteration or change contemplated in the
application and shall be made on forms provided by the Pennsylvania
Department of Health and by the Director of Code Enforcement of the
Town of Haverford.
[Amended 6-30-1986 by Ord. No. 1960; 3-11-1991 by Ord. No.
2109; 2-8-1993 by Ord. No. 2168; 8-8-1994 by Ord. No. 2209]
A. Operation license. No person, firm or corporation
shall operate a public bathing place without first obtaining a license
from the Health Department of Haverford Township and paying an annual
license and inspection fee as established by resolution of the Board
of Commissioners, which may be amended from time to time, to defray
the administrative costs of inspections, consultations and servicing
of the public bathing places of the Township of Haverford. All such
inspections, consultations and services shall be for the purpose of
ascertaining compliance with the rules and regulations set forth in
this chapter.
(1) Such person shall post the license, including the
Pennsylvania Department of Health's permit and electrical certificate,
in the principal office of the bathing place or in the entryway or
in any other conspicuous place approved by the Director of Health.
(2) The operator of a bathing place shall be held responsible
for compliance with all the provisions of this chapter on and within
the premises operated under such a license.
(3) The operator shall have had experience in operating
and knowledge of any treatment processes necessary in order to maintain
clean water in the pool at all times and shall have knowledge of the
basic scientific principles relating to the proper operation of bathing
places, including the treatment processes and pool plumbing.
(4) Except for public bathing places located at continuing-care facilities for the elderly, as defined in §
182-106B, which public bathing places are open for use only by residents of such facilities and their guests, one or more lifeguards in adequate number shall be on duty waterside at a public bathing place at all times such bathing place is open for use by bathers. While they are on waterside duty, lifeguards shall not be assigned other tasks that will divert their attention from the safety of the bather. Lifeguards need not be assigned to hot tubs, spas or whirlpools.
(5) If it is found that the provisions of this chapter
are not being complied with or that any condition exists which, in
the opinion of the Department of Health of Haverford Township, endangers
the life, safety or health of the users of any swimming pool or other
bathing place, said Department may revoke the operator's license.
B. Investigation of bathing places. Bathing places shall
be open at all reasonable times to inspect by the Director of Health.
C. Reports.
(1) It shall be the duty of every operator and of every
employee in every bathing place to furnish such records and information
as are required by the Director of Health for ascertaining compliance
with the provisions of this chapter.
(2) All operators of bathing places shall keep records
of operations, which shall include daily records of chemicals added,
the time of cleansing of the filters, the time of cleaning the pool,
the daily bathing load, a record of all breakdowns of equipment operation
and hourly, daily and monthly records of the amount of free bromine
and chlorine residual in the pool from locations designated by the
Director of Health. The aforesaid records shall be open to the inspection
of the Director of Health.
[Amended 6-30-1986 by Ord. No. 1960; 6-13-1988 by Ord. No.
2019; 3-12-2012 by Ord. No. 2660]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any
provision of this article shall, upon summary conviction before any
District Justice of the Peace, pay a fine not exceeding $1,000 and
costs of prosecution; and in default of one payment of the fine and
costs, the violator may be sentenced to the county jail for a term
of not more than 90 days. Whenever such person shall have been officially
notified by the Director of Health or by the service of a summons
in a prosecution or in any other official manner that he is committing
a violation of this chapter or the rules and regulations approved
and herein adopted, each day that he shall continue such violation
after such notification shall constitute a separate offense punishable
by a like fine or penalty. Such fines or penalties shall be collected
as like fines or penalties are now by law collected.
A. Board of Health was changed to Department of Health in the following sections: §§
53-1; 53-4A; 53-4A(5); 53-6B, I and J; and 53-7F.
B. Superintendent of Building Regulations was changed to Director of Code Enforcement in §
53-3.
C. Health Officer was changed to Director of Health in the following sections: §§
53-4A(1),
B and
C; and 53-8.