§ 188-5. Conditions applying to all pools.  


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  • A. 
    In order to safeguard the general safety of the community, particularly the children thereof, and to ensure the public health and welfare of the community generally, the following specific conditions are hereby imposed on all swimming pools. Prior to the submission of any swimming pool application to the Board of Zoning Appeals, the applicant shall first submit to the Building Inspector of the Incorporated Village of Bellerose, in such form as he shall require, plans and other appropriate evidence that the following conditions and those set forth in § 188-6 of this chapter will be met by the proposed installation. If the Building Inspector shall find that the application does not meet the said conditions, the applicant may appeal from such finding to the Board of Zoning Appeals for its appellate consideration. The Board of Zoning Appeals shall not consider any application for a swimming pool permit under § 188-3 until the Building Inspector shall have approved the application in accordance with the criteria of this section and of § 188-6, unless the Board of Zoning Appeals, in its appellate jurisdiction, shall overrule the Building Inspector or shall have granted such variance as it shall deem proper and lawful.
    (1) 
    Any electric wiring for lighting or other use, other than for lighting which is part of and enclosed in the pool structure, shall not be closer than 15 feet to said pool.
    (2) 
    Said pool shall be located not closer than 20 feet to any dry well (excluding roof leader dry wells) on the owner's or adjacent property.
    (3) 
    All installations of pools, as herein defined, shall be subject to any and all ordinances, rules and regulations now or hereinafter enacted by the Nassau County Department of Health or by the Health Department of the State of New York. Such pool shall be chemically treated in a manner sufficient to maintain the bacterial standards established by the provisions of the New York State Sanitary Code relating to public swimming pools.
    (4) 
    Any water from a public water supply shall be introduced into a swimming pool of permanent construction by means of a permanent rigid system of piping, having an air-gap delivery connection of not less than six inches vertically above the flood rim of the pool and shall in every manner conform to Regulation 6 of Chapter VI of the New York State Sanitary Code.
    (5) 
    No swimming pool shall have a water capacity in excess of 6,500 gallons without a recirculating and filtering system of sufficient capacity to meet good public health and engineering practice.
    (6) 
    No swimming pool shall be installed and/or used in a front or side yard of any residential premises.
    (7) 
    Loudspeaker devices shall be prohibited, nor shall any lighting be installed in connection therewith which shall throw any rays beyond such property lines.
    (8) 
    Such pool shall not occupy more than 25% of the area of the rear yard.
    B. 
    A permit, when issued, may also have endorsed thereon any such reasonable rules and regulations for the operation, maintenance and use of such pool as may be promulgated by the Board of Trustees.