[Amended 3-11-1976 by Ord. No. 1420]
Any person or persons desiring to construct a bathing, swimming place
or swimming pool, or artificial body of water, or any excavation in which
water may collect in excess of a depth of two feet, within 300 feet of any
property line of the property on which it is to be located, shall first secure
a permit from the Building Inspector of Abington Township. The fee for swimming
pools shall be $10 per 100 square feet or fraction thereof for all aboveground
pools and $25 plus $10 per $1,000 or fraction thereof of contract price for
all in-ground pools. The applicant shall submit to the Building Inspector
such plans, drawings or other data required by the Building Inspector as shall
satisfactorily indicate the method of fencing and latching and the manner
of the emptying of the pool.
[Amended 11-13-1958 by Ord. No. 920]
A. Every bathing, swimming place or swimming pool not enclosed
in a building, or any artificial body of water, or any excavation in which
water may collect in excess of a depth of two feet, heretofore or hereafter
installed or constructed within 300 feet of any property line of the property
on which it is located, shall be entirely surrounded by a substantial wire
mesh or solid fence not less than four feet in height which contains no vertical
interspace of more than two inches and no horizontal rail or component on
the outside usable as a footstep and which satisfies the appropriate following
minimum requirements:
(1) Wood picket, three-fourths-inch stock.
(2) Iron picket, one-half-inch iron bar.
(3) Chain link, vertical chains to be No. 9-gauge wire and
a maximum of two inches apart.
(4) Woven or other solid fence, of strength equivalent to
one of the foregoing, satisfactory to the Building Inspector.
B. Each gate in every such fence shall be secured with a
lock satisfactory to the Building Inspector.
Any person failing to comply with the terms of this chapter shall be
subject to a fine not exceeding $100 and costs and, in default of payment
thereof, to imprisonment in the county prison for a term not exceeding five
days.