A swimming pool may not be located in any front yard required by the zoning code of the City, nor closer than five feet measured from the edge of the water surface to any exterior property line.
(Ord. 1363 § 2(part), 1985)
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Every person who owns real property, or any person who is in possession of real property either as owner, purchaser under contract, as the lessee, tenant or licensee, and which real property is located within the boundaries of any residential district zone (R-1 through RMH) or which is located within the boundaries of any C-1, C-2 or M-l district, and which property is located within the incorporated area of the City, and upon which real property there is situated a man-made, hard-surfaced swimming pool, or, any person above named who hereinafter constructs upon any real property, as above designated, a man-made, hard-surfaced swimming pool, shall erect thereon and maintain thereupon a solid structure or a fence not less than five feet in height with no opening therein, other than doors or gates, larger than six inches square. The fence or other solid structure shall completely surround the swimming pool in such a manner as to minimize, as nearly as possible, the danger of unsupervised children gaining access thereto. All gates or doors opening through such enclosure shall be equipped with a self-closing and self-latching device designed to keep and capable of keeping such doors or gates securely closed at all times when not in actual use, and all latches shall be placed at least 4-1/2 feet above the ground or shall be made inaccessible to small children from the outside; provided, however, that the door to any dwelling occupied by human beings and forming any part of the enclosure hereinabove required need not be so equipped. Such fencing and latches shall be installed prior to the filling of the pool with water for use.
(Ord. 1363 § 2(part), 1985)
Plans for swimming pools to be constructed shall be submitted to the Building Department, and shall show on their face the form of proposed compliance with the requirements of TMC Chapter 16.25; and the final inspection and approval of all pools hereafter constructed shall be withheld until all requirements of TMC Chapter 16.25 shall have been complied with. Use of the swimming pools before inspection and approval shall constitute a violation of TMC Chapter 16.25.
(Ord. 1363 § 2(part), 1985)
The provisions of TMC Chapter 16.25 shall not apply to public swimming pools for which a charge or admission price is required to be paid for the use thereof, nor to swimming pools which are a part of and located upon the same premises as a hotel or motel, nor to swimming pools operated by a school district when the pools are made unavailable except at times when attended by adult supervisors or guards.
(Ord. 1363 § 2(part), 1985)
Swimming pools of a type subject to the provisions of TMC Chapter 16.25, which were in existence on the effective date of the ordinance codified herein but which swimming pools do not possess the safety features required in TMC Chapter 16.25, shall, within a period of not to exceed six months from the effective date of the ordinance codified herein, be brought into conformity with the provisions and requirements of TMC Chapter 16.25. Swimming pools not brought into conformity within the period of time herein stipulated are hereby declared to be public nuisances and public hazards, and the owners of the premises upon which such pools exist shall be subject to the penalties prescribed herein.
(Ord. 1363 § 2(part), 1985)