Wis. Admin. Code Department of Safety and Professional Services SPS 390.03

Current through November 25, 2024

Section SPS 390.03 - Definitions

In this chapter:

(1) "Accessible" means easily and readily exposed for inspection and the replacement of materials or parts with the use of tools.

(2) "ANSI" means the American National Standards, Institute, Inc.

(3) "Approved" means acceptable to the department based on its determination of conformance with this chapter and good public health practices.

(4) "ASME" means the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

(5) "Basin" means any vessel constructed of manmade materials and designed to hold water to be used as a public swimming pool or water attraction.

(6) "Bed and breakfast establishment" has the meaning found in s. 97.01(1g), Stats.

Note: Section 97.01(1g), Stats., reads: Bed and breakfast establishment means any place of lodging that satisfies all of the following:

(a) Provides 8 or fewer rooms for rent to no more than a total of 20 tourists or transients.

(b) Provides no meals other than breakfast and provides the breakfast only to renters of the place.

(c) Is the owner's personal residence.

(d) Is occupied by the owner at the time of rental.

(e) Was originally built and occupied as a single-family residence, or, prior to use as a place of lodging, was converted to use and occupied as a single-family residence.

(7) "Breakpoint" means the line of separation between the shallow portion and the deep portion of a pool, defined by a sharp change in the slope of the pool bottom.

(8) "Children's slide" means a slide that has a maximum height of 4 feet as measured vertically from the slide entrance to the slide terminus and terminating in less than 24 inches of water.

(9) "Circulation system" means the outlets, inlets, equipment and piping of pools and water attractions designed to circulate water at a predetermined quantity and velocity in order to treat and purify the water, but does not include backwash piping.

(10) "Common wall" means a partition separating two pools, water attractions or whirlpools, or any combination of the aforementioned.

(11) "Contrasting color" means a variance from a color of 2 steps or more in value and less than 6.5 in value on the Munsell color-order system.

Note: Contrasting colors may cross hue and chroma lines.

(12) "Deck" means the unobstructed walking surface immediately adjacent to the pool or water attraction.

(13) "Deep portion" means that portion of a pool having a design water depth greater than 5 feet.

(14) "Department" means the department of safety and professional services.

(15) "Drop slide" means a pool slide or water slide where the terminus is 20 inches or more above the water level.

(16) "Flume" means that part of a slide within which sliding takes place.

(17) "Interactive play attraction" means a water attraction, including but not limited to manufactured devices using sprayed, jetted or other water sources with a flow rate of more than 50,000 gallons per day or a circulation system with water contacting the users and not incorporating standing or captured water as part of the user activity area.

Note: Splash pads and spray pads are examples of interactive play attractions.

(18) "NSF" means the National Sanitation Foundation.

(19) "Open swim" means a period of time when persons, other than those residing in living units associated with the pool or water attraction, are permitted to use the pool or water attraction.

(20) "Owner" or operator" means a municipality, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership or individual owning, controlling or operating any public swimming pool.

(21) "Patron" means a user of the pool.

(22) "Play feature" means a physical object installed in a pool or water attraction that is intended for recreational use.

(23) "Pool" or public swimming pool" has the meaning found in s. 145.26(1), Stats. Public swimming pools include all of the following:

(a) "Cold soak pool" means a public swimming pool containing water colder than 72°F that is commonly used in conjunction with therapy or training.

(b) "Combination pool" means a public swimming pool used for swimming and diving.

(c) "Competition pool" means any pool intended for use by accredited competitive aquatic events.

Note: Accredited organizations may include U.S. Swimming, U.S. Diving, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Federation of State High Schools Association, or Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.

(d) "Diving pool" means a public swimming pool used exclusively for diving.

(e) "Exercise pool" means a public swimming pool of shallow depth usually associated with a health spa and which may or may not have a current.

(f) "Limited purpose pool" means a public swimming pool used for a purpose not otherwise defined, such as for apparatus swimming, underwater photography training or another special use by the public.

(g) "Mobile pool" means a public swimming pool constructed on a mobile structure that is capable of being transported from place to place.

(h) "Therapy pool" means a public swimming pool used exclusively for medically administered therapy.

Note: Note: Medically administered may be demonstrated by showing that a Department licensed therapist is responsible for the pool.

(i) "Wading pool" means a shallow public swimming pool having a maximum depth of 24 inches and intended for children's play.

Note: A zero-depth entry wading pool is an example of a wading pool.

(j) "Whirlpool" means a relatively small public swimming pool that uses high temperature water (greater than 93 oF) and that may include a water agitation system. A whirlpool may also be referred to as a spa.

Note: Section 145.26(1), Stats., reads:

"Public swimming pool" means a fixed or mobile structure, basin, chamber or tank and appurtenant buildings and equipment that serve or are installed for use by the state, a political subdivision of the state, a motel, a hotel, a resort, a camp, a club, an association, a housing development, a school, a religious, charitable or youth organization, an educative or rehabilitative facility or another entity. "Public swimming pool" does not mean a fixed or mobile structure, basin, chamber or tank that only serves fewer than 3 individual residences.

(24) "Pool slide" means a slide where the drop from the slide terminus to water is less than 20 inches and the flume carries less than 100 gallons per minute of water.

(25) "Private guest room" means a room or rooms that provide sleeping accommodation offered for pay to tourists or transients.

(26) "Reconstructed or altered pool" means a pool construction project where replacement of or modification to the pool shell, circulation system and appurtenances occur. It does not include the replacement of equipment or piping previously approved by the department, provided that the type and size of equipment are not changed, nor does it include normal maintenance or repair.

Note: See listing in ch. SPS 390 Appendix A-390.03 (26).

(27) "Run-out slide" means a waterslide where the rider does not enter into a plunge pool, but has a deceleration area that permits the rider to come to a stop before exiting the slide flume.

(28) "Shallow portion" means the portion of a pool having a design water depth of 5 feet or less.

(29) "Skimmer" means a device installed in a pool wall at the water level that is connected to the circulation piping and is intended to skim debris from the surface of a pool.

(30) "Slip-resistant" means a material that when wet has a coefficient of friction greater Than 0.5.

(31) "Splash zone" means the area where water falls on the floor of an interactive play attraction.

(32) "Spray feature" means equipment that produces a flow of water on the patrons as part of a recreational experience.

Note: Spray features include geysers, water cannons and dumping buckets.

(33) "Swimming pool complex" means two or more pools that are located within the same enclosure or room.

(34) "Swimout" means an underwater seat area that has a floor that is higher than the floor of the pool and has walls that are recessed within the main pool wall.

(35) "Suction outlet" means a discharge port installed in the wall or floor of a pool that connects by way of piping to a pump.

(36) "Tourist rooming house" has the meaning found in s. 97.01(15k), Stats.

Note: Section 97.01(15k), Stats., reads: "Tourist rooming house" means any lodging place or tourist cabin or cottage where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to tourists or transients. "Tourist rooming house" does not include:

(a) A private boarding or rooming house, ordinarily conducted as such, not accommodating tourists or transients.

(b) A hotel.

(c) Bed and breakfast establishments.

(37) "Turnover rate" means the time for a given volume of water to pass through the circulation system. The volume of water is generally the basin volume and the time is usually expressed in hours.

(38) "Water attraction" means a public facility with design and operational features that provide patron recreational water activity other than conventional swimming and involves partial or total immersion of the body. Types of water attractions include:

(a) "Activity pool" means a water attraction with a depth of greater than 24 inches designed primarily for play activity that uses constructed features and devices including, but not limited to, pad walks, multiple flotation devices and similar attractions.

Note: The installation of a single basketball hoop, single flotation device or a single volleyball net does not transform a pool into a water attraction.

(b) "Leisure river" means a stream of near-constant depth in which the water is moved by pumps or other means of propulsion to provide a river-like flow that transports users over a defined path. A leisure river may include play features and devices. A leisure river may also be referred to as a tubing pool or a current channel.

(c) "Plunge pool" means a pool with a depth of greater than 24 inches, located at the exit end of a waterslide flume and intended and designed to receive slide users emerging from the flume.

(d) "Vanishing edge pool" means a water attraction where the top of one or more of the basin walls are submerged with no accompanying decks.

(e) "Vortex pool" means a circular pool that is equipped with a method of transporting water in the pool for the purpose of propelling users at speeds dictated by the velocity of the moving stream.

(f) "Wave pool" means a water attraction designed to simulate breaking or cyclical waves for the purposes of surfing or general play.

(g) "Zero-depth entry pool" means a water attraction having a sloped entrance to where the water depth is zero inches at the shallowest point.

(39) "Water attraction complex" means an enclosure or room where there are two or more water attractions or a water attraction and any number of public swimming pools.

(40) "Waterslide" means a slide where a water flow of 100 gallons per minute or more is intended to carry a rider down a flume.

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Safety and Professional Services SPS 390.03

CR 08-056: cr. Register February 2009 No. 638, eff. 3-1-09; renumbering of (39) and (40) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 1, Stats., Register February 2009 No. 638; correction in (14) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 6, Stats., Register December 2011 No. 672.

Amended by, correction in (6), (36) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 7, Stats., Register February 2017 No. 734, eff. 3/1/2017