§ 18-1071. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in V.T.C.A., Health and Safety Code § 757.001 et seq., with the following additions or modifications:

French doors means double doors, sometimes called double-hinged patio doors, that provide access from a rental dwelling of a multiunit rental complex or hotel interior to the exterior and in which each of the two doors is hinged and closable so that the edge of one door closes immediately adjacent to the edge of the other door with no partition between the doors. The term "French door" means either one of the two doors.

Hotel means a facility in which members of the public obtain sleeping accommodations. The term includes a hotel, motel, tourist home, tourist house, tourist court, lodginghouse, inn, roominghouse, hospital, sanitarium or nursing home.

Pool or swimming pool means any structure, basin, chamber, tank or other receptacle capable of containing an artificial body of water for the purpose of swimming, diving or recreational bathing and having a depth at any point of more than 18 inches, whether located at ground level, aboveground, belowground or indoors. Such terms shall include but not be limited to a permanent swimming pool, a permanent wading or reflection pool or a permanent hot tub or spa.

Private residential swimming pool means any swimming pool located on private property under the control of a single homeowner or his tenant, the use of which is limited to members of his family, the tenant's family and their invited guests.

Public swimming pool means any swimming pool, other than a private residential swimming pool, intended to be used collectively by numbers of persons for swimming or bathing, however owned or operated and regardless of whether a fee is charged for such use. Such term includes but is not limited to a swimming pool owned or operated incident to a multifamily dwelling project, nonprofit recreational facilities, hotels, as well as educational facilities.

Spa means a pool designed for recreational or therapeutic use or physiological or psychological relaxation that is not drained, cleaned and refilled for each user. Such pool includes but is not limited to hydrojet circulation, hot water or cold water mineral baths, air induction bubbles or any combination thereof. Common terminology for a spa includes but is not limited to therapeutic pool, hydrotherapy pool, whirlpool, hot spa and hot tub. Such spas are shallow in depth and not intended for swimming or diving. Such spas do not include pools or whirlpools in which no part of the human body is immersed or in which only human limbs are immersed.

Wading pool means any special purpose pool or receptacle set aside primarily for use by children.

(Code 1967, § 28-1; Ord. No. 7721, § 1, 6-13-96)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.