Eugene, OR Swimming Pools & Spas: Fencing & Safety Requirements (2026)

905, titled 'Swimming Pools – Fences or Walls,' used to require fencing or walls around swimming pools within Eugene city limits. The section was amended twice, in 1979 and 1986, but the Eugene Code's own history note shows it was repealed by Ordinance No. 905 heading, with no operative fencing standard. 010, which authorizes the city manager to adopt the Oregon Specialty Codes as the city's technical code for buildings, structures and components. 010(2), if a city administrative rule conflicts with an Oregon Specialty Code, the city's rule controls unless the state code explicitly preempts it.

Because the Eugene Code no longer states its own barrier, gate, or self-closing-latch requirement for pools, a property owner installing a pool has to look to whatever pool-barrier provisions exist in the state building code the city manager has adopted under that authority, rather than to a Eugene-specific ordinance. This reflects the Eugene Code as it stands current through Ordinance No. 20739, passed June 8, 2026, more than two years after the local fencing requirement disappeared.