For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined as
follows:
CONSTRUCTION
The building or installing of a new swimming pool or the enlarging
of an existing swimming pool or any of its facilities.
PERSON
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms
and partnerships as well as individuals.
PORTABLE POOL
Any above-surface-type pool of more than 75 cubic feet capacity,
not stationary or fixed but capable of being removed for storage.
PRIVATE SWIMMING POOL
Any pool of water having a water depth in excess of 18 inches and
an area greater than 75 square feet, designed, used and maintained for swimming
purposes by an individual for use by his household and guests without fees
and located on property owned, leased or otherwise used and maintained by
the owner of said swimming pool; it shall further mean and include fill-and-draw,
flow-through and recirculation pools which are artificially constructed to
provide recreational facilities for swimming, bathing or wading, and all buildings,
equipment and appurtenances thereto. It shall not include natural outdoor
ponds, rivers or lakes nor baths used for cleansing of the body or practice
of the healing arts.
WADING POOL
Any artificially constructed pool intended for use by children, not
designed or used for swimming, with a maximum area of 75 square feet and a
maximum water depth of 18 inches.
All private swimming pools, wading pools or portable pools with a water
depth of more than one foot, now constructed, installed, established or maintained,
or hereafter constructed, installed, established or maintained within the
City of Hudson, shall be provided with the necessary equipment to completely
pump out or empty said pool, or shall be emptied by providing one drainage
outlet, to be installed at the lowest point of said pool, not in excess of
three inches in diameter, extending from said pool to either a storm sewer,
catch basin, lawn watering system, adequate dry well or sand filtering pit
on the premises on which said private pool is located. The discharge of water
from such pools into a storm sewer shall be permitted only where the capacity
is adequate as determined by the Superintendent of Public Works. No private
pool drain, wading pool drain or portable pool drain shall be connected into
the sanitary sewer system. The discharge of said waters shall in no case cause
or create a nuisance to the abutting property or to the public. The discharge
of said waters, either directly or indirectly, upon the property of others,
shall be deemed a nuisance under the terms of this chapter.
All private swimming pools, wading pools or portable pools with a water
depth of more than one foot shall be disinfected by the use of disinfecting
agents with disinfecting qualities equal to that obtained from chlorine-bearing
compounds. No water shall be used for swimming purposes which, when tested,
shall show coliforms contained therein. For the purposes of this section,
the use of disinfecting agents approved by the National Swimming Pool Institute,
or such disinfecting agents as shall meet the same or higher standards, shall
be deemed compliance with this section.
No private swimming pool, as defined by this chapter, or accessory building, shall be erected or placed nearer to a street property line or nearer to a side property line than would be allowed for buildings in Chapter
325, Zoning.
No person using a private or portable swimming pool shall indulge in
disorderly or noisy or disturbing conduct or act in any manner as to annoy,
disturb or be offensive to any neighboring householder.
No artificial lighting shall be maintained or operated in connection
with a private swimming pool, wading pool or portable pool in such a manner
as to be a nuisance or an annoyance to neighboring properties. Such lighting
shall not shine directly upon any abutting property. No unshielded lights
shall be permitted.
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this chapter
shall be guilty of a violation punishable as follows: by imprisonment for
a term not exceeding 15 days or by a fine not exceeding $250, or by both such
fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions
of this chapter shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a
separate and distinct offense hereunder.