The Board hereby adopts all provisions of the New Jersey State Swimming Pool Code 1970,[1] regulating the maintenance and operation of a public swimming pool. As herein used, the term "public swimming pool" shall include any swimming pool except one constructed on private residential property and not operated as a business or for profit.
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Editor's Note: For current regulations, see N.J.A.C. 8:26-1 et seq.
No person shall maintain or operate a public swimming pool without having first obtained a license therefor from the Board of Health.
All swimming pools, as well as all bathhouses, dressing rooms, locker rooms, shower rooms and toilets used in connection with public swimming pools, shall be operated and maintained in a clean and sanitary manner.
The pool and the water therein shall be disinfected at such intervals and in such manner as in the opinion of the Health Officer shall be necessary to protect the health of the users of the pool.
All chemical and bacteriological analyses of swimming pool waters shall be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in the current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage, published jointly by the American Public Health Association and the American Waterworks Association. The standard test for the coliform group shall consist of the presumptive and confirmed test, the latter being required when presumptive evidence of coliform organisms is indicated. The standard test for total bacteria shall consist of thirty-seven-degree standard agar plate count.
Swimming pool operators shall have pool water samples analyzed at least once weekly by a laboratory approved by the Board. Copies of reports of all analyses shall be forwarded to the Board within 48 hours after completion.