Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R392 - Population Health, Environmental Health
Rule R392-303 - Public Geothermal Pools and Bathing Places
Section R392-303-3 - Definitions

(1) "Bather" means a person at a geothermal pool or geothermal bathing place who has contact with water either through spray or partial or total immersion. The term bather as defined, also includes staff members, and refers to those users who can be exposed to contaminated water as well as potentially contaminate the water.

(2) "Bather load" means the number of persons allowed by the operator to use a geothermal pool or geothermal bathing place at any one time or specified period of time.

(3) "Flow-through" means water that is fed by a continuous supply into a geothermal pool or bathing place that causes an equal rate of flow to discharge from the pool or bathing place to waste.

(4) "Geothermal bathing place" means a natural bathing place or semi-artificial bathing place with an impoundment of geothermal water.

(5) "Geothermal pool" means a man-made basin, chamber, receptacle, tank, or tub that is filled with geothermal water or a mixture of geothermal and non-geothermal water that creates an artificial body of water.

(6) "Geothermal water" means ground water that is heated in the earth by the earth's interior.

(7) "Imminent health hazard" means a significant threat or danger to health that is considered to exist when there is evidence sufficient to show that a product, practice, circumstance, or event creates a situation that can cause infection, disease transmission, pest infestation, or hazardous condition that requires immediate correction or cessation of operation to prevent injury, illness, or death.

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(9) "Local health department" has the same meaning as provided in Subsection 26A-1-102(5).

(10) "Local health officer" means the health officer of the local health department having jurisdiction, or a designated representative.

(11) "Natural bathing place" means a lake, pond, river, stream, swimming hole, or hot springs that has not been modified by man.

(12) "Operator" means a person who owns, manages, or controls a public geothermal pool or bathing place or a designated representative.

(13) "Plumbing Code" means International Plumbing Code as incorporated and amended in Title 15A, State Construction and Fire Codes Act.

(14) "Renovation or remodeling" means the replacement or modification of equipment that may affect the ability of a geothermal pool or a geothermal bathing place to meet the safety and water quality standards of this rule.

(15) "SCUBA diving" means a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses an apparatus that is completely independent of surface air supply to breathe underwater.

(16) "Soaking pool" means a geothermal pool or geothermal bathing place that is less than or equal to four feet deep, and is designed exclusively for sitting or reclining.

(17) "Soaking tub" means a geothermal pool or geothermal bathing place that has a depth of two feet or less and a volume of 300 gallons or less and is designed exclusively for sitting or reclining.