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As used in this chapter:
ARTIFICIAL
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.
PARTLY ARTIFICIAL
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.
PERSON
Shall mean either a natural person, partnership, association,
corporation, or any natural or legal entity.
PUBLIC
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.
SWIMMING POOL AND BATHING AREA
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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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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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.
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.