Bill Text: FL H1409 | 2011 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Public Swimming Pools and Spas

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H1409 Detail]

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CS/HB 1409

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to public swimming pools and spas;
3	creating s. 514.0315, F.S.; requiring public swimming
4	pools and spas to be equipped with certain safety
5	features; providing an effective date.
6
7	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9	Section 1.  Section 514.0315, Florida Statutes, is created
10	to read:
11	514.0315  Required safety features for public swimming
12	pools and spas.-
13	(1)  A public swimming pool or spa must be equipped with an
14	anti-entrapment system or device that complies with American
15	Society of Mechanical Engineers/American National Standards
16	Institute standard A112.19.8, or any successor standard.
17	(2)  A public swimming pool or spa with a single main drain
18	other than an unblockable drain must be equipped with at least
19	one of the following features that complies with any American
20	Society of Mechanical Engineers, American National Standards
21	Institute, American Standard for Testing and Materials, or other
22	applicable consumer product safety standard for such system or
23	device:
24	(a)  A safety vacuum release system that ceases operation
25	of the pump, reverses the circulation flow, or otherwise
26	provides a vacuum release at a suction outlet when a blockage is
27	detected and that has been tested by an independent third party
28	and found to conform to American Society of Mechanical
29	Engineers/American National Standards Institute standard
30	A112.19.17, American Standard for Testing and Materials standard
31	F2387, or any successor standard.
32	(b)  A suction-limiting vent system with a tamper-resistant
33	atmospheric opening.
34	(c)  A gravity drainage system that uses a collector tank.
35	(d)  An automatic pump shut-off system.
36	(e)  A device or system that disables the drain.
37	(3)  The determination and selection of a feature under
38	subsection (2) for a public swimming pool or spa constructed
39	before January 1, 1993, is at the sole discretion of the owner
40	or operator of the public swimming pool or spa.
41	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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