Colorado Pool Rules Sign

5 CCR 1003-5. SWIMMING POOLS AND MINERAL BATHS

The Colorado Pool Rules Sign has informational messages for property and swimming policy concerns. The Colorado Pool Rules Sign is a useful tool to help protect the health and safety of others in pool and swimming areas, and is not a substitute for necessary protective measures for lessening or eliminating hazards. This sign complies with 5 CCR 1003-5.

4.11 BATHER CONTROL:

1. All bathers, before entering the swimming pool, shall be required to take a cleansing shower bath, using warm water and soap and rinsing off all soap before entering the pool. Soap shall be provided by the facility.
2. Persons having any considerable area of exposed sub-epidermal tissue, cuts, or known or recognizable contagious diseases, shall not be permitted to use the pool. Therapy pools used exclusively for prescribed treatments are exempt from this sub-paragraph 2, and shall be closed to the public during treatment times.
3. Spitting, or blowing the nose in the pool shall be strictly prohibited.
4. If towels, bathing suits, combs, brushes, or any other such articles are furnished by the pool management, they shall be clean at the time of issue to the patron and shall have been cleaned and sanitized in a manner acceptable to the health department.
5. The bather load shall not be permitted to exceed the design limitation as determined in Section 3.23. Such limitation shall be posted at facility.

4.15 FACILITIES TO BE KEPT CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR:

• All shower rooms, dressing rooms, equipment rooms and appurtenant facilities shall be kept clean at all times. Daily hosing down of all facilities is required. Disinfection of public areas is required daily or more frequently as needed.
• Animals shall not be permitted in pool or pool area, except patrol dogs accompanying security or police officers, or guide dogs and service dogs accompanying blind, visually handicapped, deaf, partially deaf and otherwise physically disabled persons.