| 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. |
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| 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. |