The words, terms or phrases listed below for the purpose of
this ordinance shall be defined as follows:
BOARD OF HEALTH
And include the Health Officer or other duly authorized representative
thereof, except in such case when the Board is referred to in a manner
that contemplates action by it as a body corporate.
BOROUGH OF WENONAH
Building Inspector or other duly authorized representative
thereof, except in such case when the borough is referred to in a
manner that contemplates action by it as a body corporate.
CONSTRUCTION
Includes the building or construction or installing of a
new swimming pool or enlarging an existing swimming pool or any of
the facilities.
PERSON
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies,
firms and partnerships as well as individuals.
PORTABLE POOL
Any above-surface type of swimming, bathing or wading pool
and all equipment and appurtenance thereto, not designed or intended
to be stationary or permanently fixed, but designed and intended to
be removed and stored.
SWIMMING POOL
Any private pool, whether permanently constructed or of the
portable type, having a depth of more than 18 inches below the level
of the surrounding land or any above-surface pool having a depth of
more than 30 inches, designed, used and maintained for swimming or
bathing purposes by an individual for use of the members of the household
and guests and located on the applicant's land as an accessory
use to a residence, and shall include all buildings, equipment, structures
and appurtenances thereto.
WADING POOL
And include an artificially constructed pool not designed
or used for swimming having a capacity of less than 250 cubic feet.
The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to portable pools
and wading pools only when specific reference is made to them in the
context of those sections of the ordinance applicable to such pools.
All materials used in the construction of swimming pools shall
be waterproof and so designed and constructed as to facilitate emptying
and cleaning and shall be maintained and operated in such manner as
to be clean and sanitary at all times. Inlets shall be so located
and spaced as to secure satisfactory dispersion of inflowing waters
throughout the pool and to permit draining, cleaning and disinfecting
of the bottom and sides. Sand or earth bottoms shall not be used.
All swimming pools, including portable pools, shall be so constructed,
installed and maintained as to provide necessary equipment for the
chlorination and other disinfection and filtering to comply with approved
bacteriological standards as may be promulgated by the Board of Health
of the Borough of Wenonah and the New Jersey State Department of Health.
All private swimming pools hereafter constructed within the
Borough of Wenonah shall be provided with one drainage outlet not
in excess of three inches in diameter extending from said pool to
either a brook, storm sewer or lawn-sprinkling system on the premises
on which said pool is located. The discharge of water from such private
swimming pools into a brook or storm sewer shall be permitted only
following approval by the proper state, county and borough officials
as each case required.
There shall be no physical connection between a potable (public
or private) water supply system and such pools at a point below the
maximum flow of the pool or to a recirculating or heating system of
a pool, unless such physical connection is so installed and operated
that no pool water can be discharged or siphoned into a potable water
supply system.
Locker rooms, bathhouses, cabanas, shower rooms, toilets, runways
and all other physical facilities or equipment incident to the operation
of any private swimming pool shall be kept in a sanitary condition
at all times.
A private swimming pool or wading pool hereafter constructed
shall comply with the yard and area requirements of the Zoning Ordinance of the Borough of Wenonah for accessory buildings.
No artificial lighting shall be maintained or operated in connection
with a private swimming pool or the above-surface-type portable pool
in such a manner as to be a nuisance or an annoyance to neighboring
properties.
A person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall,
upon conviction, be subject to a fine not to exceed the sum of $200,
and upon default in the payment of said fine, may be imprisoned in
the county jail for a term not to exceed 30 days. Every day that such
violation continues shall be deemed to be a separate offense.
If for any reason any section or subsection of this ordinance
shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not
be held to affect other sections or provisions of this ordinance.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the
provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon final passage
and publication as required by law.