Under Florida's Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act (FS 515.29), a pool barrier must be at least 4 feet high on the outside, with no gaps a child could crawl under or through, and it must separate the pool from the home and yard.
Florida law sets the pool-barrier standard statewide, and it applies to residential pools in unincorporated Collier County. Under FS 515.29 the barrier must be at least 4 feet high on the outside and have no gaps, openings, indentations, protrusions, or structural components that let a young child crawl under, squeeze through, or climb over it. The barrier must encircle the pool and be placed far enough from the water's edge to stop a child who breaches it from immediately falling in. Gates must open outward, self-close, and self-latch, with the release on the pool side out of a child's reach. A qualifying pool fence is one accepted way to satisfy FS 515.27.
Failing to equip a new residential pool with at least one safety feature (including a compliant barrier) is a second-degree misdemeanor under FS 515.27(2).
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