This chapter applies to all pools except those associated with single-family dwellings. (For fencing requirements for pools associated with single-family dwellings, see Sections 14.50.010, 14.50.060, 14.50.062 which adopt and amend Appendix Chapter 4, Division 1 of the Uniform Building Code.)
Every swimming pool, pond or other body of water eighteen inches
or more in depth at any point shall be surrounded by a fence or wall
not less than five feet above the adjacent exterior grade. Such fence
or wall shall be constructed and maintained with no openings or projections
which could serve as a means to scale same. Openings between vertical
members shall be no wider than five inches and horizontal members,
accessible from the exterior, shall be no closer than forty-eight
inches. There shall be sufficient distance from any structure, shrubbery
or grade which could be used to scale the fence or wall.
Exception: Any pool located at a hotel or motel
which has staff on continuous duty, seven days a week, twenty-four
hours a day.
Gates and doors opening through such enclosures shall be self-closing
and self-latching with release four feet above exterior grade so located
on the pool side as to prevent release from the exterior.
Exception No. 1: Door opening into an apartment;
Exception No. 2: When approved by the building
official, municipal or public school operated pools or ponds when
under continuous supervision while gates or doors are unlocked.
The fence or walls shall be located as to allow access to all
living units without entering the pool enclosure. The fence or walls
shall serve to isolate the pool from other activities or structures
and shall be located within fifty feet of the pool. Gates in such
enclosures shall be located in view of the pool. A building wall with
no doors or openable, unscreened windows with sills under four feet
in height may be used in part of such pool enclosures when within
the specified distance of the pool.
Exception: When approved by the building official,
such enclosures may include sunshade, toilet or shower structures
which are used only in conjunction with the pool.
(Ord. 987 § 12, 1980; Ord. 1339 § 1, 1998)
