Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 820 - SWIMMING FACILITY CODE › Subpart A - GENERAL › Section 820.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions in the Illinois Swimming
				  Facility Act, the following additional definitions shall apply:
"Act" means the Swimming Facility Act [210 ILCS 125 ].
"Agent Health Department" means a certified local health
				  department that the Department has designated as its agent for making
				  inspections and investigations under Section 11 of the Act. (Section 3.23 of
				  the Act)
"Appurtenance" means an accessory facility or feature at a
				  swimming facility, such as a diving board, slide, wading pool, plunge pool,
				  spray pool or bather preparation facility. 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 the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and
				  found to meet the requirements specified in ANSI Z 34.1, Third Party
				  Certification Program, to evaluate swimming facility equipment for compliance
				  with Standard 50, "Equipment for Swimming Pools, Spas, Hot Tubs and other
				  Recreational Water Facilities", published by the National Sanitation Foundation
				  (NSF) International.
"Aquatic Feature" means any single element of a swimming
				  facility other than a swimming pool or spa or bathing beach, including, but not
				  limited to, a lazy river, water slide, spray pool, or other feature that
				  provides aquatic recreation or therapy. (Section 3.16 of the Act) It does
				  include small slides, play structures and other similar equipment. It does not
				  include diving boards or starting blocks.
"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 swimming facility area at one time without creating undue health
				  or safety hazards. (See Section
				  820.200(b).)
"Bathing Beach" or "Public Bathing Beach" means any body of
				  water, except a swimming pool as defined in this Part, or that portion thereof
				  used for the purpose of public swimming or recreational bathing, and includes
				  beaches at: apartments, condominiums, subdivisions, and other groups or
				  associations having 5 or more living units, clubs, churches, camps, schools,
				  institutions, parks, recreational areas, motels, hotels and other commercial
				  establishments. It includes shores, equipments, buildings and appurtenances
				  pertaining to such areas. It does not include bathing beaches at private
				  residences intended only for the use of the owner and guests. (Section 3.02 of
				  the Act)
"Certified Safety Cover" means a cover for a swimming
				  facility suction outlet that has been certified for conformance to ANSI and the
				  Association of Pool & Spa Professionals (APSP) standard ANSI/APSP
				  16.
"Community Water System" means a public water system that
				  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 facility 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 5 feet.
"Department" means the Department of Public Health, State of
				  Illinois. (Section 3.06 of the Act)
"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 measured downward from the horizontal.
"Field-Fabricated Suction Outlet" means a suction outlet
				  having a cover that is not a certified safety cover or a safety cover installed
				  in a manner that is not specified by the manufacturer. The term includes
				  suction outlet covers consisting of a certified safety cover installed together
				  with other components and covers comprising multiple certified safety covers
				  covering a single suction outlet.
"Flume" means the inclined channel of a water slide.
"Homeowner's Association" is a not-for-profit corporation
				  composed of members who have common ownership interest in property owned or
				  operated by the association for the benefit of all the members.
"Initial Inspection" means an inspection conducted by the
				  Department to determine compliance with the Act and this Part in order to
				  approve the operation of a swimming facility after the Department has issued a
				  permit for construction or major alteration. (Section 3.22 of the Act)
"Initial Review" means the first review of any submittal made
				  by an applicant for a permit for construction or major alteration, as provided
				  for in Section 5 of the Act. If the requirements of Section 5 are met, a permit
				  shall be issued; otherwise the Department shall issue correspondence indicating
				  deficiencies. (Section 3.21 of the Act)
"Inlet" means an opening or fitting through which filtered
				  water enters the swimming facility.
"Installation" means the emplacement of a swimming facility
				  manufactured and transported to the intended site.
"Lapsed Fee" means the amount charged to a licensee for
				  failing to renew a swimming facility license within one year after the
				  expiration of the license. This fee is in addition to any other fees associated
				  with renewal of a swimming facility license. (Section 3.17 of the Act)
"Lazy River" means a swimming facility intended for use with
				  flotation devices and consisting of a closed loop with an artificially induced
				  current.
"Living Unit" means a home, mobile home, duplex unit,
				  apartment unit, condominium unit, or any dwelling unit in a multi-unit
				  residential structure or a campground lot. (Section 3.18 of the Act)
"Main Drain" means the outlet or outlets in the floor of the
				  swimming facility.
"Major Alteration" means any change to a swimming facility or
				  its aquatic features or appurtenances that alters the facility's functionality
				  or as-built or as-permitted condition. This includes, but is not limited to, an
				  alteration of a swimming facility that changes the water surface area, depth,
				  or volume, addition of a permanently installed appurtenance such as a diving
				  board, slide, or starting platform, modification of the design of the
				  recirculation system, and replacement or modification of a bather preparation
				  facility. It does not include maintenance or minor repair or the replacement of
				  equipment with comparable components. (Section 3.19 of the Act) Examples of
				  alterations that are not major include, but are not limited to, painting of a
				  swimming facility, replacement of a swimming facility filter or pump having
				  identical characteristics, or replacement of plumbing fixtures in a bather
				  preparation facility.
"Make-up Water" means the water added to a swimming facility
				  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 facility.
"Office of Water Resources" means the Illinois Department of
				  Natural Resources, Office of Water Resources, One Natural Resources Way,
				  Springfield IL 62702.
"Ordinance Health Department"means a certified local health
				  department belonging to a unit of local government that has adopted an
				  ordinance electing to administer and enforce the Act and adopting, by
				  reference, this Part. (Section 3.24 of the Act)
"Perimeter Overflow System" means a channel normally
				  extending completely around the pool used to skim the surface layer of water or
				  also known as an overflow gutter.
"Permit" means a certificate issued by the Department
				  allowing the construction, major alteration or installation of a swimming
				  facility under the provisions of the Act.
"Plunge Area" means a location in a swimming facility 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, plunge pool, spa, or other
				  water basin used by the public. The term does not refer 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.
"Prequalified Architect" or "Prequalified Professional
				  Engineer" means an individual who is prequalified by the Department and is
				  responsible for coordinating the design, planning, and creation of
				  specifications for swimming facilities and for applying for a permit for
				  construction or major alteration. (Section 3.14 of the Act)
"Prequalified Swimming Facility Contractor" means a person
				  who is prequalified by the Department to perform the construction,
				  installation, modification, or repair of a swimming facility and its
				  appurtenances. (Section 3.15 of the Act)
"Project Designer" means a prequalified architect or
				  prequalified professional engineer as defined in this Part and the Act.
"Recirculation Piping" means the piping from the pool to the
				  filters and back to the pool, through which the pool water circulates.
"Safety Vacuum Release System" means a device or combination
				  of devices that has been designed to prevent bather entrapment on a suction
				  fitting in a pool. Methods include, but are not limited to, immediately
				  admitting air into the suction piping, de-energizing the pump upon sensing an
				  increase in vacuum in the suction pipe
,
reversing the
				  circulation flow or any combination of these.
"Safety Vent Pipe" means a piping arrangement designed to
				  admit air into suction piping to break a vacuum caused by a blocked suction
				  fitting in a pool.
"Self-Perform" means:
designing, planning and creating specifications for swimming
				  facilities and applying for a permit for construction or major alteration of a
				  swimming facility without subcontracting the work; or
constructing, installing, modifying or repairing a swimming
				  facility without subcontracting the work.
"Shallow Area" means an area in a swimming pool in which the
				  water depth does not exceed 5 feet at any point.
"Skimmer" means a mechanical device connected to the
				  recirculation piping that 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.
"Spa" means a basin of water designed for recreational or
				  therapeutic use that is not drained, cleaned, or refilled for each user. It may
				  include hydrojet circulation, hot water, cold water mineral bath, air induction
				  bubbles, or some combination thereof. It includes "therapeutic pools",
				  "hydrotherapy pools", "whirlpools", "cold spas", "hot spas", and "hot tubs". It
				  does not include these facilities at individual single-family residences
				  intended for use by the occupant and his or her guests. (Section
				  3.10 of the Act) The term
				  does not apply to a swimming pool as defined in the Act.
"Spray Pool"means an aquatic feature that is not a swimming
				  pool and that has structures or fittings for spraying, dumping, or shooting
				  water. The term does not include features having as a source of water a public
				  water supply that is regulated by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
				  or the Illinois Department of Public Health and that has no capacity to recycle
				  water. (Section 3.13 of the Act)
"Subsequent Inspection" means any inspection made by the
				  Department or its agents or certified local health departments that are
				  authorized by local government ordinance to administer and enforce the Act for
				  purposes of annual renewals, responding to a substantiated complaint, complying
				  with a request by the licensee or its agent, or ensuring compliance with an
				  order of the Department. The term does not include initial inspections
				  performed by the Department relating to permitted construction, interim
				  compliance inspections, or Department inspections in a case in which no
				  violations are found. (Section
				  3.20 of
				  the Act)
"Suction Outlet" means a fitting or opening in a pool basin
				  through which water flows out of the pool. The term does not include a skimmer
				  or a drain for a perimeter overflow system.
"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.
"Swimming Facility" means a swimming pool, spa, public
				  bathing beach,or aquatic feature and its appurtenances, singular or aggregated
				  together, that exists for the purpose of providing recreation or therapeutic
				  services to the public. It does not include isolation or flotation tanks.
				  (Section 3.12 of the Act)
"Swimming Pool" means any artificial basin of water that is
				  modified, improved, constructed or installed for the purpose of public
				  swimming, wading, floating, or diving, and includes: pools for community use,
				  pools at apartments, condominiums, and other groups or associations having five
				  or more living units, clubs, churches, camps, schools, institutions,Y.M.C.A.'s,
				  Y.W.C.A.'s, parks, recreational areas, motels, hotels, health clubs, golf and
				  country clubs, and other commercial establishments. It does not include pools
				  at private single-family residences intended only for the use of the owner and
				  guests. (Section 3.01 of the Act) The term refers to swimming pools used for
				  swimming, wading pools, lazy rivers, therapy pools, and plunge pools. The term
				  does not refer to spas or to spray pools.
"Therapy Pool" means a pool that is not a spa and is intended
				  only for medical treatment, physical therapy or muscle relaxation.
"Transition Point" means a location in a shallow area of a
				  swimming pool where an area, having a floor slope of no more than 1 foot
				  vertical in 12 feet horizontal, adjoins an area where the floor slope exceeds 1
				  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 5 feet, or that portion of a bathing beach designated by the
				  installation of a buoyed line to separate this area from deeper water.
"Wading Pool" means a swimming 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 the skimmer operating
				  range.
"Water Slide" means a ride with a flow of water and having a
				  flume exceeding 30 feet in length. (Section 3.11 of the Act)
"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.