[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Wilkinsburg
7-31-1972 as Ch. XXV of the 1972 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
From and after the passage of this chapter, the following provisions
shall govern the construction and maintenance of swimming pools within the
Borough of Wilkinsburg.
A.
When not inconsistent with the context, words used in
the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include the
singular number and words in the singular number include the plural number.
The word "shall" as used herein is mandatory and not merely directory.
B.
BUILDING INSPECTOR
FAMILY POOL
PERSON
SWIMMING POOL
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
The Building Inspector of the Borough of Wilkinsburg.
A swimming pool used or intended to be used solely by the owner,
operator or lessee thereof and his or her family, and by friends invited to
use it without payment of any fee.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company
or any organization of any kind.
A body of water in an artificial or semiartificial receptacle or
other container, whether located indoors or outdoors, used or intended to
be used for public, semipublic or private swimming by adults or children,
or both adults and children, whether or not any charge or fee is imposed upon
such adults or children, operated and maintained by any person, as herein
defined, whether he or she is an owner, lessee, operator, licensee or concessionaire,
exclusive of a family pool as defined herein, and shall include all structures,
appurtenances, equipment, appliances and other facilities appurtenant to and
intended for the operation and maintenance of a swimming pool, and also all
swimming pools operated and maintained in conjunction with or by clubs, motels,
hotels and community associations.
Before work is commenced on the construction of a swimming pool or family
pool or on any alteration, addition, remodeling or other improvement to a
swimming pool or family pool, an application for a permit to construct and
the plans and specifications and pertinent explanatory data shall be submitted
to the Building Inspector for his or her approval, and no part of the work
shall be commenced until the Building Inspector has granted such approval
by a written permit to construct and has further evidenced his or her approval
by a suitable endorsement upon such plans and specifications. No permit for
a swimming pool shall issue until the plans and specifications therefor have
been approved by the County or State Health Department, as the same may be
required by law.[1]
The buildings, grounds, dressing rooms and all other swimming pool or
family pool facilities shall be kept clean and in a sanitary condition and
maintained free from garbage, trash and other refuse.
No swimming pool or family pool shall be so located, designed, operated
or maintained as to interfere unduly with the enjoyment of their property
rights by owners of property adjoining the swimming pool or family pool or
located in the neighborhood.
Lights used to illuminate any swimming pool or family pool shall be
so arranged and shaded as to reflect light away from adjoining premises.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make, continue or cause to be
made or continued at any swimming pool or family pool any loud, unnecessary
or unusual noise or any noise which annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers
the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others. In the operation of
a swimming pool or a family pool, the use or permitting the use or operation
of any radio, receiving set, musical instrument, phonograph or other machine
or device for the reproducing or producing of sound in such manner as to disturb
the peace, quiet and comfort of the neighboring inhabitants or at any time
with louder volume than is necessary for convenient hearing of the person
or persons who are in the swimming pool or family pool premises shall be unlawful.
The carrying on of any commercial undertakings at a swimming pool or
family pool entailing sales of food, drinks, novelties or other merchandise
in a manner unreasonably disturbing neighboring property owners and inhabitants
in the enjoyment of their property shall be prohibited. Swimming pool signs
and placards shall be of such type and so affixed as not to prejudice or unreasonably
disturb the enjoyment of neighboring property owners of their property.
In the construction, operation and maintenance of any swimming pool
or family pool, state laws and the rules, regulations and requirements of
the State Department of Health and County Health Department shall be observed.
In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any
provision of state law or requirement, rule or regulation of the State Department
of Public Health and Allegheny County Health Department, the provision imposing
the higher standard or the more stringent requirement shall be controlling.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than six hundred dollars ($600.)
and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs,
to imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days.
