No Mobile County ordinance and no Alabama statute impose a residential pool-barrier rule on unincorporated land. The 48-inch barrier standard applies only inside cities that enforce the building code, plus insurers who require it.
Alabama sets no statewide barrier law for private backyard pools, and unincorporated Mobile County enacts no zoning to require one, so on rural and coastal land outside city limits the four-foot barrier rule is not enforced by any government body. Where it does apply is inside Mobile, Prichard, Saraland, and Citronelle, which enforce the International Residential Code through their building departments; that code requires a barrier at least 48 inches high with self-closing, self-latching gates around a residential pool. Even outside the cities, homeowner insurers routinely demand a compliant fence as a condition of coverage, and an unfenced pool is a serious liability exposure if a child drowns.
Outside city limits no government cites a missing pool barrier, but an unfenced pool is a powerful negligence and attractive-nuisance exposure in a civil suit. Inside a city, a non-compliant pool fails building inspection.
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