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PART II GENERAL LEGISLATION: Chapter 149, SWIMMING POOLS

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of Abington 5-9-1957 by Ord. No. 864. Amendments noted where applicable.]

GENERAL REFERENCES

Building construction -- See Ch. 62.

Drainage -- See Ch. 70.

Plumbing -- See Ch. 121.

Sewers and sewage -- See Ch. 132.

Water - See Ch. 159.

149-1. Permit required for certain pools; fees; plans. [Amended 3-11-1976 by Ord. No. 1420]

Any person or persons desiring to construct a bathing, swimming place or swimming pool, or artificial body of water, or any excavation in which water may collect in excess of a depth of two feet, within 300 feet of any property line of the property on which it is to be located, shall first secure a permit from the Building Inspector of Abington Township. The fee for swimming pools shall be $10 per 100 square feet or fraction thereof for all aboveground pools and $25 plus $10 per $1,000 or fraction thereof of contract price for all in-ground pools. The applicant shall submit to the Building Inspector such plans, drawings or other data required by the Building Inspector as shall satisfactorily indicate the method of fencing and latching and the manner of the emptying of the pool.

149-2. Fencing required for certain pools; gates. [Amended 11-13-1958 by Ord. No. 920]

A. Every bathing, swimming place or swimming pool not enclosed in a building, or any artificial body of water, or any excavation in which water may collect in excess of a depth of two feet, heretofore or hereafter installed or constructed within 300 feet of any property line of the property on which it is located, shall be entirely surrounded by a substantial wire mesh or solid fence not less than four feet in height which contains no vertical interspace of more than two inches and no horizontal rail or component on the outside usable as a footstep and which satisfies the appropriate following minimum requirements:

(1) Wood picket, three-fourths-inch stock.

(2) Iron picket, one-half-inch iron bar.

(3) Chain link, vertical chains to be No. 9-gauge wire and a maximum of two inches apart.

(4) Woven or other solid fence, of strength equivalent to one of the foregoing, satisfactory to the Building Inspector.

B. Each gate in every such fence shall be secured with a lock satisfactory to the Building Inspector.

149-3. Violations and penalties.

Any person failing to comply with the terms of this chapter shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $100 and costs and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment in the county prison for a term not exceeding five days.