Indiana Administrative Code › Title 675 - FIRE PREVENTION AND BUILDING SAFETY COMMISSION › Article 20 - SWIMMING POOL CODE › Rule 1.1 - General Provisions and Definitions › Section 1.1-22 - Definitions "W"

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC
				  22-13-2-2
Affected: IC 22-12; IC 22-13; IC 22-15; IC 36-7
Sec. 22.
(a) "Wading
				area" means the portions of a pool having water depths of two (2) feet and
				less.
(b) "Walls" means interior
				pool wall surfaces consisting of surfaces from the vertical to a forty-five
				(45) degree slope.
(c) "Waste
				piping" means piping that conveys wastewater.
(d) "Water attraction" means a public
				facility with design and operational features that provide patron water
				recreational activity other than or in addition to wading, swimming, and
				diving. Types of water attractions include the following:
(1) "Activity pool" as defined in section
				16(d)(1) of this rule.
(2)
				"Interactive play attraction". See section 10(c) of this rule.
(3) "Leisure river" means a stream of
				near-constant depth in which the water is moved by pumps or other means of
				propulsion to provide a river-like flow that transports users over a defined
				path. The term includes play features and devices. A leisure river may also be
				referred to as a tubing pool, lazy river, or a current channel.
(4) "Plunge pool" as defined in section
				16(d)(7) of this rule.
(5) "Pool
				slide" means a slide where the drop from the slide terminus to water is less
				than twenty (20) inches and the flume carries no water flow.
(6) "Special use pool" as defined in section
				16(d)(8) of this rule.
(7) "Spray
				pad". See "interactive play attraction" in section 10(c) of this
				rule.
(8) "Vanishing edge pool" as
				defined in section 16(d)(11) of this rule.
(9) "Vortex pool" as defined in section
				16(d)(12) of this rule.
(10) "Water
				attraction complex" means a facility where a water attraction is located within
				an enclosure or room with another water attraction or public swimming
				pool.
(11) "Waterslide" means a
				slide where a water flow is intended to carry a rider down a flume and includes
				the following:
(A) "Children's slide" means a
				slide that has a maximum height of four (4) feet as measured vertically from
				the slide entrance to the slide terminus and located in not less than
				twenty-four (24) inches of water.
(B) "Drop slide" means a slide where the
				terminus is located twenty (20) inches or more above deep water.
(C) "Flume slide" means an open or closed
				(tube) slide from a platform that is usually three (3) meters or more in height
				and empties into water less than four (4) feet deep.
(D) "Pool slide" means a slide where the drop
				from the slide terminus to water is less than twenty (20) inches and the flume
				carries less than one hundred (100) gpm of water.
(E) "Recreational slide" means an open or
				closed (tube) slide from a platform less than three (3) meters in height and
				empties in various depths of water.
(F) "Run-out slide" means a waterslide where
				the rider does not enter into a plunge pool, but has a deceleration area that
				permits the rider to come to a stop before exiting the slide flume.
(G) "Speed slide" means a water slide so
				designed for high velocity rides that usually ends in a straight run out for
				deceleration and exit.
(12) "Wave pool" as defined in section
				16(d)(14) of this rule.
(13)
				"Zero-depth entry pool" as defined in section 16(d)(16) of this rule.