101-06 Amend 1721 Family Swimming Pools

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(~.) "Portable wadingpool" means a family wading pool which may be dismantled, storedor moved from one place to another. (2) "Permanent wading pool" means a family wading po01 which is built either upon or below the level of the ground and which is not designed or intended to be readily dismantled, stored or moved from one place to another. XXXX.03 CONSTRUCTZON PERMIT. Before work is commenced on the construction of a family swimming pool or any alteration, addition, remodeling or other improvement thereto, an application for a permit to construct and the plans and specifications and pertinent explanatory data hereinafter required shall be submitted to the Building Commissioner for approval. No part of the work shall be commenced until the Commissioner of Health and the Building Commissioner have evidenced their approval by a suitable endorsement upon such plans and specifications, and have granted a ~ermit thereof. XXXX.04 FEES, .(a) , Per.mi.ts. The fee for the permit to construct a swimmingpool shall be at the rate of tour oollars ($4.00) per 100 square feet, or fraction thereof, of the ground area occupied by the pool structure, With a minimum fee of twenty-five dollars be$25.00). Such fee is in addition to permit fees applicable to other structures which may incidental to the pool, Or plumbing, Sewering or wiring connections therewith. ($30,0-0b)u- License. The fee for a license for a family pool shall be thirty dollars XXXX.05 LICENSE TO OPERATE; TRANSFERABILITY; EFFECTIVE PER~OD. No person shall operate or maintain a family swimming pool until a license therefor has been issued by the Commissioner of Health. The license for a family swimming pool shall be issued for an indefinite period but shall not be transferab e as to person or location. All licenses shall be in writing and shall state the conditions thereof and the term for which the license is granted, it shall be unlawful for any person to conduct, operate, maintain or manage any swimming poOl without complying with the requirements of this chapter, and the Divisions of Public Health and Building inspection are charged with the enforcement of the provisions hereof. XXXX.06 REVOCATION OF LICENSE; APPEAL. Any license granted by the Commissioner of Health hereunder may be revoked by him for failure to comply with rules and regulations promulgated hereunder or for failure to comply with any provisions of this chapter, or whenever in the determination of the CommissiOner of Health, further operat on under such icense creates a menace to the health, safety or morals of the Users of the Swimming pool. The hoder of any license which has been revoked may appeal to CoUncil in writing within thirty days of such revocation, and Council Shall; at its next regUlar meeting, determine the legal [y or reasonableness of the revocation. No appeal under this section, however, shall entiUe the license holder to continue operation of the swimming pool pending action of Council XXX~.07 INSPECTION. The Commissioner of Health shall inspect or cause to be inspected ail pools within the City at such times as he may deem necessary to carry out the intent of this chapter. The Commissioner Of Health, or his duly authorized representatives, is authorized to enter upon any premises, private or public, to take samples of water from the pools at such times as he may deem necessary and to require the owner, proprietor or operator to comply with the provisions of this chapter, in the event of the fa lure of compliance, after dUe notice, with any provisions of this chapter, the Commissioner of Health shall have the power to abate or cause a suspension of the use of such pool until such time as the same is, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Health, no longer a menace or a hazard to health, safety or morals. XXXX.08 COMPLIANCE WITH RE(~UIREMENTS OF STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. In the construction, operation and maintenance of any family swimming pool, laws of the State of Ohio and the rules, regulations and requirements of the State Department of Health shall be observed. ~n the event of any conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any provision of State law or requirement, rule or regulation of the Ohio Department of Public Health, the provision imposing the higher standard or the more stringent requirement shall be controlling. XXXX.09 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.