22 §1635. Use of safety equipment in public pools - Maine Statutes

Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE

Subtitle 2: HEALTH

Part 3: PUBLIC HEALTH HEADING: PL 1989, C. 487, §11 (RPR)

Chapter 266: SWIMMING POOLS

§1635. Use of safety equipment in public pools

1. Use of safety equipment by persons who suffer from physical disability or condition. No person may prohibit the use of a life jacket or similar device in a public swimming pool by any person who suffers, as evidenced by a signed statement of a licensed physician, from any physical disability or condition which necessitates the use of a life jacket or similar device.

[ 1987, c. 194, (NEW) .]

2. Public swimming pool defined. For the purposes of this section, a public swimming pool is any swimming pool which caters to, offers its facilities or services to or solicits or accepts patronage from the general public.

[ 1987, c. 194, (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1987, c. 194, (NEW).