§ 25-5-803 — Sanitation of swimming areas

Colorado § 25-5-803

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 25: Public
• Art.: Products Control and Safety

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(1) A swimming area shall be kept
clean and free of all accumulations of trash, garbage, filth, and debris.
Concentrations of any other matter in the water shall not be injurious to health.

(2) All swimming areas shall provide separate toilet facilities for both males
and females, and swimming pools shall also provide separate shower and locker
room facilities; except that swimming pools used in connection with hotels, motels,
apartment houses, and private clubs shall not be required to furnish separate
shower, toilet, and locker room facilities. All such facilities shall be kept clean and
free from dirt, refuse, soiled toweling, or other noxious material.

(3) A swimming pool shall have an apparatus for the continuous removal
from the water of suspended, floating, and settleable substances. Equipment for
the disinfection of water shall be provided that shall be capable of either
maintaining a minimum concentration of not less than twenty-five hundredths part
per million of free chlorine residual or maintaining the minimum standards for
drinking water in effect on January 1, 1969, as specified by the public health service
of the United States department of health, education, and welfare. The water shall
be kept clear enough to permit the bottom of the pool to be visible from the
surface.

Legislative History

Source: L. 63: p. 542, � 3. C.R.S. 1963: � 66-22-3. L. 69: p. 470, � 1.