Colorado § 25-5-803 - Sanitation of swimming areas.
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§ 25-5-803. Sanitation of swimming areas.
(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.
Source: L. 63: p. 542, § 3. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-22-3. L. 69: p. 470, § 1.
ANNOTATION
Applied in People ex rel. Dunbar v. Giordano, 173 Colo. 567, 481 P.2d 415 (1971).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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