As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
An outdoor or indoor swimming pool or swimming tank, whether
permanently installed, portable, collapsible or otherwise, having
an inside structural depth in excess of 24 inches or a surface in
excess of 120 square feet or a capacity in excess of 1,400 gallons,
constructed or maintained upon any premises by any person for use
by himself, herself, his or her family or guests.
All swimming pools shall be properly equipped
with filtering or clarifying devices so that the water of such pools
shall be kept at all times in a sanitary condition for bathing purposes.
The Department of Health may from time to time adopt chemical and
bacterial standards for pools.
All swimming pools shall be properly equipped
with devices for dispensing chlorine-bearing compounds which will
provide an available or excess chlorine content of not less than 0.4
part per million nor more than 1.0 part per million at all times.
Chlorine gas shall not be used as a disinfecting agent.
A.
The bacterial quality of the water when the pool is
in use shall be such that not more than 15% of the samples covering
any considerable period of time shall contain more than 200 bacteria
per milliliter or shall show positive test for organisms of the coliform
group in any of five ten-milliliter portions of water.
B.
All chemical and bacterial analyses of swimming pool
water shall be made in accordance with the procedures recommended
in the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial
Waste of the American Public Health Association.
The Health Officer or his or her designated
representative shall have the authority to inspect private swimming
pools and to collect samples of water for analysis.
