5 rules for unincorporated Yuba County, California.
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A building permit from the Yuba County Building Department is required to construct a swimming pool or spa in unincorporated Yuba County. The County enforces the State Building Standards Code and the Swimming Pool Safety Act (Code Chapter 10.40) for pools at private single-family homes built after January 1, 1998.
Where a pool enclosure is used as the drowning-prevention feature, Yuba County Code §10.40.040 requires a barrier at least 60 inches high with self-closing, self-latching gates that open away from the pool, a maximum 2-inch ground gap, and no openings that pass a 4-inch sphere. These rules exceed the California state minimum.
Yuba County Code §10.40.035 requires every new single-family pool to include at least one of six listed drowning-prevention features, and §10.40.046 requires anti-entrapment dual circulation drains. These mirror California Health & Safety Code §115922 and §115928 and are checked at final inspection.
Yuba County treats above-ground pools the same as in-ground pools under the Swimming Pool Safety Act. Code §10.40.040(10) lets an above-ground pool wall serve as the safety barrier only if any ladder or steps can be secured, locked, or removed — or are surrounded by a compliant barrier.
Yuba County Code §10.40.030(5) classifies hot tubs and spas as 'swimming pools' when they hold water over 18 inches deep, so they need a building permit and the drowning-prevention features of Chapter 10.40 — unless they have an ASTM-compliant locking safety cover, which is exempt under §10.40.050(2).
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