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As used in this chapter:
Shall mean concrete, masonry, or other structures intended
or used for bathing or swimming either indoors or outdoors, the water
for which is supplied by artificial means or can be controlled so
as to permit the water to be filtered and the swimming or bathing
area to be emptied for cleaning.
Shall mean swimming pools formed artificially by the impounding
of streams and bathing areas established in or along streams, natural
ponds, or lakes or bodies of water impounded by artificial means.
Shall mean either a natural person, partnership, association,
corporation, or any natural or legal entity.
Shall mean all such establishments where members of the public
are customarily admitted upon payment of admission or other fees,
membership dues, or by general permission of the owner or operator
thereof.
Shall mean all pools, streams, or other bodies of water,
or portions thereof used for swimming or bathing, whether used indoors
or outdoors and whether of natural or of artificial or partly artificial,
and shall include all buildings, structures, premises, beaches and
appurtenances used in connection therewith.
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No person shall construct or make changes in public artificial
or partly artificial swimming pool or bathing area, including the
buildings and structures, premises, beaches and appurtenances used
in connection therewith, if such construction or changes are of a
nature which may affect the public health, until plans and specifications
therefore shall have first been submitted to and approved by the board
of health. When granting such approval, the board may direct such
modifications or impose such conditions as it shall deem the public
health may require.
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No person shall operate, conduct or maintain any public swimming
or bathing area within the township without having first obtained
from the board of health a license for such purpose and paid an annual
fee of $75 to the board of health for the license. When the license
is issued, it is subject to the provisions of this chapter and such
additional sanitary safeguards in respect to the premises to be used
as the board shall deem that the public health may require. The license
shall set forth the method of disinfecting and treatment of the water
which shall be used by the owners or operators and the maximum number
of persons who shall be allowed to use such pool or beach at any one
time and during any bathing period.
The license shall expire on May 1 following the date of issue
thereof, and may be revoked by the board for any violation of any
of the provisions of this chapter or any of the additional safeguards
prescribed by the board in granting such license.
The license shall be posted conspicuously at such pool or beach.
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Artificial swimming pools shall be so designed and constructed
as to facilitate emptying and cleaning, and shall be maintained and
operated in such a manner as to be clean and sanitary at all times.
In new artificial swimming pools, inlets and outlets shall be so located
and spaced as to secure satisfactory dispersion of the inflowing water
throughout the pool. Partly artificial swimming pools and bathing
areas shall be so designed as to insure the utmost dispersion of inflowing
waters throughout the pools and area, and if possible, to permit draining,
cleaning and disinfecting of the bottom and sides.
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There shall be no physical connection between a potable public
or private water supply system and a pool structure at a point below
the maximum flow line of the pool or to a recirculating or heating
system of a pool unless such physical connection is so installed and
so operated that no pool water can be discharged or siphoned into
a potable water supply system.
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A pool located on a water shed of a spring, lake, stream or
other body of water and used as a source of public water supply shall
be so located and operated as not to create a menace to such supply.
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a.Â
Dressing rooms provided at swimming pools and bathing areas shall
be sanitary and adequate. The board shall have authority to prescribe
when dressing rooms shall be provided at any swimming pool or bathing
area.
b.Â
Adequate shower bath facilities shall be provided at all swimming
pools, bathing areas accommodating 100 or more persons at one time.
c.Â
Sanitary toilet facilities, adequate and accessible, shall be provided
for both sexes at all swimming pools and bathing areas accommodating
25 persons or more at one time to the extent of at least one toilet
for every 100 females and one toilet and one urinal for every 200
males which such premises have the capacity to accommodate and are
permitted to accommodate at one time. The sewerage or excreta from
toilet facilities provided in the vicinity of any swimming pool or
bathing area shall be disposed of in a sanitary manner as not to pollute
the water used for bathing.
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a.Â
No two successive samples of water collected from any swimming pool
or bathing area on different days, not more than 10% of such samples
covering any three-month period, shall contain more than 500 bacterial
colonies per cubic centimeter when incubated for 24 hours at 37°
C. on agar or lactose agar medium. Nor more than two out of five of
the 10 cubic centimeter portions of any one sample of the water supply
admitted or flowing into the swimming pool or bathing area, or the
water of any part of any swimming pool or bathing area, when in use,
or more than 30% of the 10 cubic centimeters portions of all of the
samples collected on the same day shall show a positive test for the
organism of the bacillus coli group.
b.Â
The water in an artificial or partly artificial swimming pool or
bathing area where alum is used as a coagulant shall be maintained
at all times in such an alkaline condition that the pH value of the
water therein shall exceed 7.0 at all times. When the water in the
artificial or partly artificial swimming pool or bathing area shall
be affected with chlorine in the presence of ammonia, pH value of
the water shall not exceed 7.6.
c.Â
All chemical and bacterial analysis provided for in these regulations
shall be made in accordance with the procedures recommended in the
standard methods of water analysis approved by the board.
d.Â
Water admitted to artificial swimming pools and bathing areas shall
be filtered or purified by chlorination in a manner approved by the
board of health. The bottom and sides (walls) of artificial pools
shall be kept visibly (reasonably) free from sediment and visible
dirt. Visible scum or floating matter on the surface of the water
of any such pool or bathing area shall be removed at least once daily.
e.Â
Samples of water in any such swimming pool or bathing area for analysis
to determine the sanitary quality of the water shall be collected
by the health officer, or by any designated sanitary inspector, as
often as the board may deem necessary. Such samples shall be taken
while the swimming pool or bathing area is in use and as far as is
possible, at the time of the maximum use thereof by bathers.
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Failure to maintain the sanitary quality of the water in any
such swimming pool or bathing area prescribed by this chapter, or
to restore such water to the required quality within the time directed
by the board of health, shall, in the instance of artificial pools
and bathing area, be deemed sufficient cause for revocation of license
therefore. In the instance of partly artificial pools or the natural
swimming pools and bathing areas, such failure shall constitute prima
facie cause for such revocation, but bacterial analysis alone shall
not be the determining factor, and, in addition, thereto, the board
shall take into consideration such information as may be derived from
a sanitary survey of the drainage area, dilution, by inflowing water
and overflow of the outlet.
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Where quality of water depends upon continuous chlorination in any
artificial or partly artificial pool or bathing area, the total number
of bathers permitted to use the same during a bathing period of 30
minutes shall not exceed 15 persons per each 1,000 gallons of chlorinated
water added to such pool or bathing area during that period, provided
the water in all parts of such pool or bathing area at all times when
in use shall contain at least 0.3 parts per million residual chlorine
when chlorine alone is used, or 0.7 parts per million residual chlorine
when chlorine is in the presence of ammonia used, as determined by
the orthotolidine test. No greater number of persons shall be admitted
to any swimming pool or bathing area at one time than the maximum
fixed in the license therefore issued by the board.
b.Â
Where the quality of water depends upon intermittent disinfection
and replacement of water, at any artificial or partly artificial swimming
pool or bathing area where the addition of disinfectant is not continuous
during the admission of water to such pool or bathing area, the total
number of persons permitted to use such pool or bathing area between
any two consecutive replacements of the water therein shall not exceed
15 persons for each 1,000 gallons of water therein, and all such pools
or bathing areas shall be disinfected at least once every day when
in use, and the number of applications and the amount of disinfectant
added shall be sufficient to insure that the water in all parts of
any such pool or bathing areas when in use shall contain not less
than 0.3 parts per million residual chlorine when chlorine alone is
used, or 0.7 parts per million residual chlorine when chlorine in
the presence of ammonia is used as determined by the orthotolidine
test.
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Every swimming pool or bathing area accommodating 25 persons
or more at one time shall be under the personal supervision of operators
and competent attendants, who shall require a careful observance of
sanitary regulations prescribed in this chapter in relation thereto
and the requirements of the permit issued for such swimming pool or
bathing area. At all such pools or bathing areas where artificial
circulation, filtration, or any chemical treatment of the water therein
is used, full daily records shall also be kept showing the actual
length of time pumps and filters are in operation, when each filter
is washed or cleaned, when the bottom and sides of such pool or bathing
area are cleaned, the results of at least one test for residual chlorine
made at the end of each bathing period. Such records shall be submitted
to the board of health, or to its officers or agents, upon demand.
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a.Â
All bathing suits and towels shall be rinsed and washed with soap
and hot water, rinsed and thoroughly dried after each use thereof.
b.Â
Urinating, expectorating or blowing the nose in any pool or bathing
area is prohibited.
c.Â
No person having skin lesions, sore or inflamed eyes, mouth, nose
or ear discharges, or who shall be known to the health officer to
be a carrier of any contagious or communicable disease shall use any
swimming pool or bathing area.
d.Â
At every swimming pool and public bathing area where dressing rooms
are available, one or more foot baths shall be provided at suitable
points in which fungicidal solutions shall be maintained in adequate
concentrations to prevent the development of mycotic infections.
Placards reciting the regulations governing such pools and bathing
areas shall be posted conspicuously at such pools and bathing areas
and enclosures, and in the dressing rooms and offices of such pools.
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No public swimming pool or bathing area shall be operated or
used between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and dawn.
