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Barriers for Residential Swimming Pool, Spas, and Hot Tubs ry"he preceding explanations of the Application Swimming pool,indoor.A swimming IU.S.Consumer Product Safety The guidelines presented in.this document Pool which is totally contained within a Commission's pool barrier guide- structure and surrounded on all four sides lines were provided in order to make it are intended to provide a means of protec- by walls of said structure. tion against potential drownings and near- easier for pool owners,purchasers, drownin C builders,technicians and others to under- ggs to children under 5 years of Swimming pool,outdoor.Any swim- age by restricting access to residential stand and apply the guidelines them- mina pool which is not an indoor pool. Swimming pools,spas,and hot tubs. selves. Detailed guidelines follow. C Reading the following guidelines in con- Guidelines junction with the diagrams Definitions gr previously Section I.Outdoor Swimming Pool provided may be especially helpful.For Abovegroundlonground pool.See defi- Z� further information.,consult your local nition of swimming pool. An outdoor swimming pool, including an building department or code authority. inground,aboveg round,or onground pool, Barrier.A fence,a wall, a building wall C or spa,should be provided with a , or a combination thereof which complete- barrier hot tub,which complies with the ly surrounds the swimming pool and :following: access to the swimming pool. C� Hot tub.See definition of swimming 1.The top of the barrier should be at least pool. 48 inches above grade measured on the side of the barrier which faces away from Inground pool. See definition of swim- the swimming pool.The maximum verti- Ming pool. cal clearance between grade and the bot- tom of the barrier should be 4 inches Residential.That which is situated measured on the side of the barrier which on the premises of a detached one-or faces away from the swimming'pool. two-family dwelling or a one-family Where the top of the pool structure is - townhouse not more than three stories in above grade, such as an aboveground height, pool,the barrier may be at ground.level, such as the pool structure,or mounted on Spa,nonportable, See definition of top of the pool structure.Where the barri- swimming pool. er is mounted on top of the Pool structure, the maximum vertical clearance between Spa,portable.A non-permanent structure the top of the pool structure and the bot- intended for recreational bathing,in tom of the barrier should be 4 inches. which all controls, water-beating,and 2.Openings in the barrier should not water-circulating equipment are an inte- gral part of the product and which is cord- allow passage of a 4-inch diameter connected(not permanently electrically sphere. wired). 3. Solid barriers, which do not have An a, l. open- ings,such as a masonry or stone wall, Swimming pool structure intended for swimming or recreational should not contain indentations or protru- bathing that contains water over 24 inches sions except for normal construction tol- deep.This includes in-round,above- erances and tooled masonry joint-,. ground,mid onground swirriming pools, hot tubs,and spas. 6