Section 820.10  Definitions

 

In addition to the definitions in the Illinois Swimming Pool and Bathing Beach Act, the following additional definitions shall apply:

 

            "Act" means the Swimming Pool and Bathing Beach Act [210 ILCS 125].

 

            "Appurtenance" means an accessory facility or feature at a swimming pool or bathing beach, such as a diving board, slide, wading pool, plunge pool, spray pool, or bathhouse.  The term does not refer to a therapy pool as defined in this Section.

 

            "Approval" means compliance with the Act and this Part.

 

            "Approved Certification Agency" means an organization that has been accredited by ANSI and found to meet the requirements specified in ANSI Z 34.1 (1993), Third Party Certification Program to evaluate swimming pool equipment for compliance with  NSF Standard 50.

 

            "Attendant" means a person at least 16 years of age, stationed at the top of a water slide and responsible for ensuring safe use of the slide.

 

            "Bather Load" means the maximum number of persons that may be allowed in the pool area at one time without creating undue health or safety hazards.  (See Section 820.200(b).)

 

            "Bathing Beach" means a Public Bathing Beach as defined in the Act.

 

            "Community Water System" means a public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by residents or regularly serves at least 25 residents for at least 60 days a year.

 

            "Construction" means the process of building or fabricating a swimming pool, bathing beach or appurtenance.

 

            "Construction in a Flood Plain" means the placement or erection of structures or earthworks; land filling, excavation or non-agricultural alteration of the ground surface; installation of public utilities; channel modification; storage of materials or any other activity undertaken to modify the existing physical features of a flood plain with respect to the storage and conveyance of flood waters.

 

            "Deep Area" means an area of a swimming pool in which the water depth exceeds five feet.

 

            "Development" means improvement of a site for the purpose of establishing a bathing beach, the addition of an appurtenance to an existing swimming pool or bathing beach, modifying the shape, water surface area or depth of a swimming pool, or changing the design of the water recirculation or water treatment system of a swimming pool.  It does not include repairs to existing facilities that do not alter the design of the facility.

 

            "Diving Pool" means a pool designed and intended for use exclusively for diving.

 

            "Drop Slide" means a slide with an exit angle exceeding 11 degrees measure downward from the horizontal.

 

            "Flume" means the inclined channel of a water slide.

 

            "Homeowner's Association" is a not-for-profit corporation comprised of members who have common ownership interest in property owned or operated by the association for the benefit of all the members.

 

            "Inlet" means an opening or fitting through which filtered water enters the pool.

 

            "Installation" means the emplacement of a swimming pool manufactured and transported to the intended site.

 

            "Lazy River" means a pool intended for use with flotation devices and consisting of a closed loop with an artificially induced current.

 

            "Main Drain" means the outlet or outlets in the floor of the pool.

 

            "Make-up Water" means the water added to a pool to replace that which is lost.

 

            "Manager/Operator" means the person or entity responsible for the actual daily operation, or for the supervision of the operation, of a swimming pool or bathing beach.

 

            "Office of Water Resources" means the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Water Resources, 3215 Executive Park Dr., Springfield IL 62703.

 

            "Perimeter Overflow System" means a channel normally extending completely around the pool used to skim the surface layer of water.  Also known as an overflow gutter.

 

            "Permit" means a certificate issued by the Department allowing the construction, development or installation of a swimming pool or bathing beach under the provisions of the Act.

 

            "Plunge Area" means a location in a pool or bathing beach at the exit of a slide, or the area in a pool below and in front of a diving board or platform.

 

            "Plunge Pool" means a pool used exclusively as a plunge area for one or more slides.

 

            "Pool" means a swimming pool or a wading pool, plunge pool or other recreational water basin utilized in conjunction with or as an appurtenance to a swimming pool.  The term does not refer to spas and therapy pools not designed or intended for swimming or to basins for individual use that are drained after each use.

 

            "Pool Depth" means the vertical distance between the pool floor and the water level.

 

            "Project Designer" means a licensed design professional primarily responsible for the design of the construction, development or installation of a swimming pool or bathing beach.

 

            "Recirculation Piping" means the piping from the pool to the filters and back to the pool, through which the pool water circulates.

 

            "Shallow Area" means an area in a swimming pool, in which the water depth does not exceed five feet at any point.

 

            "Skimmer" means a mechanical device connected to the recirculation piping which is used to skim the pool surface.

 

            "Slide" means a recreational feature, including a water slide or drop slide, with a smooth, inclined flume or channel by which a rider is conveyed downward to a plunge area.

 

            "Slip-Resistant" means not conducive to slipping under contact with bare feet when wet.

 

            "Spray Pool" means an artificially constructed area over which water is sprayed but is not allowed to pool.

 

            "Superchlorination" means the establishment of an elevated chlorine residual in pool water for the purpose of removing combined chlorine (chlorine that has reacted with nitrogenous compounds) or destroying unwanted organisms in the pool.

 

            "Surge Weir" means an opening into a perimeter overflow system channel that allows skimming of the pool water surface when the surface is below the level of the overflow lip of the perimeter overflow system.

 

            "Therapy Pool" means a pool intended only for medical treatment, physical therapy or muscle relaxation and not intended for swimming or instruction in swimming, and includes spas, whirlpools and hot spas.

 

            "Transition Point" means a location in a shallow area of a swimming pool where an area, having a floor slope of no more than one foot vertical in 12 feet horizontal, adjoins an area where the floor slope exceeds one in 12.

 

            "Turnover Period" means the time required to recirculate a volume of water equivalent to the water volume of the pool through the filtration system.

 

            "Wading Area" means a portion of a pool, other than an area of limited extent such as a stair, seat or ramp, where the water depth does not exceed 30 inches; or the portion of a bathing beach where the water depth is less than five feet, or that portion thereof designated by the installation of a buoyed line to separate this area from deeper water.

 

            "Wading Pool" means a pool having a maximum water depth not exceeding 30 inches.

 

            "Water Level" means the level of the overflow lip of a perimeter overflow system or the mid-level of surge weirs, if present, or the mid-level of the skimmer operating range.

 

            "Water Slide" means a slide with a flow of water and having a flume exceeding 30 feet in length.

 

            "Wave Pool" means a swimming pool designed for the purpose of producing wave action in the water.

 

            "Zero-Depth Edge" means that portion of the perimeter of a zero-depth pool where the pool floor intersects the pool water surface.

 

            "Zero-Depth Pool" means a swimming pool where the pool floor intersects the water surface along a portion of its perimeter.

 

(Source:  Amended at 23 Ill. Reg. 6079, effective May 20, 1999)