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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 769 | ||||||
2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 769 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following: | ||||||
4 | "Section 5. The Swimming Facility Act is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 13 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (210 ILCS 125/13) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1213) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 13. Rules. The Department shall promulgate, publish, | ||||||
8 | adopt and amend such rules as may be necessary for the proper | ||||||
9 | enforcement of this Act, to protect the health and safety of | ||||||
10 | the public using swimming facilities and their appurtenances, | ||||||
11 | and may, when necessary, utilize the services of any other | ||||||
12 | state agencies to assist in carrying out the purposes of this | ||||||
13 | Act. These rules shall include but are not limited to design | ||||||
14 | criteria for swimming facility areas and bather preparation | ||||||
15 | facilities, standards relating to sanitation, cleanliness, | ||||||
16 | plumbing, water supply, sewage and solid waste disposal, |
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1 | design and construction of all equipment, buildings, rodent | ||||||
2 | and insect control, communicable disease control, safety and | ||||||
3 | sanitation of appurtenant swimming facilities. The rules must | ||||||
4 | include provisions for the prevention of bather entrapment or | ||||||
5 | entanglement at new and existing swimming facilities. Bather | ||||||
6 | preparation facilities consisting of dressing room space, | ||||||
7 | toilets and showers shall be available for use of patrons of | ||||||
8 | swimming facilities, except as provided by Department rules. | ||||||
9 | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the rules | ||||||
10 | adopted by the Department shall permit sporting good equipment | ||||||
11 | systems and fitness equipment systems to be installed in | ||||||
12 | swimming facilities if the sporting good equipment system or | ||||||
13 | fitness equipment system is designed for pool use and | ||||||
14 | installed in accordance with the safe-use parameters specified | ||||||
15 | by the manufacturer. Sporting good equipment systems and | ||||||
16 | fitness equipment systems that meet these requirements shall | ||||||
17 | not be considered an obstruction. | ||||||
18 | (Source: P.A. 96-1081, eff. 7-16-10; 97-957, eff. 1-1-13.) | ||||||
19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
20 | becoming law.". |