§ 10.48.010. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

"Chief medical director" means the chief administrative officer of the board of health or his designated representative.

"Conventional pool" means a public pool used or designed to be used for bathing, swimming or diving (with or without diving boards, platforms or other apparatus).

"Department of health" means the department of health of the metropolitan government. Such term shall include the board and all of its agents, employees and activities.

"Hydrotherapy," "Whirlpool" or "Spa-Type Pool." These pools are not designed for swimming but for therapeutic use and for physiological and psychological relaxation. They are not drained, cleaned and refilled after each use and they may include, but are not limited to, high-velocity air or water circulation systems utilizing hot, cold or ambient temperature water. The water temperature of such pools shall not exceed one hundred five degrees Fahrenheit (forty degrees Centigrade). They have closed-cycle water systems with complete water recirculation, filtration and disinfection.

"Private pool" means a pool facility used only by an individual, family or living unit for members and their guest(s), and shall not serve any type of cooperative housing or joint tenancy of four or more living units. The design, construction and operation of such pools are not subject to these regulations.

"Public swimming pool" or "public pool" means a structure of concrete, masonry or other approved materials, used for bathing or swimming, or for instructional purposes in swimming, diving or other aquatic activities by humans, and filled with a filtered and disinfected water supply, together with buildings, appurtenances and equipment used in connection therewith. A public swimming pool or public pool means a conventional pool, spa-type pool, wading pool, special purpose pool or water recreation attraction, to which admission may be gained with or without payment of a fee and includes, but is not limited to, pools operated by camps, places of worship, cities, clubs, counties, health spas, institutions, parks, state agencies, schools, subdivisions, or the cooperative living-type projects of four or more living units, such as apartments, boardinghouses, condominiums, hotels, mobile home parks, motels, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks. The inclusion in the definition of "public swimming pool" of those serving four or more living units where the living units are predominantly of individual or family ownership (such as in a fourplex or larger multiple housing unit or a condominium) is for the protection of health and safety of the pool patrons and shall not be construed to mean that such pools are open to use by the general public.

"Special purpose pool" means a public pool used exclusively for a particular purpose, with design and operational features that provides patron participation, which is different from that associated with conventional pools, spa-type pools, wading pools or water recreation attractions.

"Wading pool," or "child's pool" means a public pool used, or designed to be used, primarily by nonswimming children for wading purposes.

"Water recreation attraction" means a facility designed for recreation where participants routinely experience partial or whole body contact with the water such as, but not limited to, hydro slides, artificial waves, etc.

(Ord. BL2017-654 § 8, 2017; Ord. 89-813 § 1, 1989; prior code §§ 20-1-1 (part), 20-1-183)