Vanderburgh County, IN Swimming Pools & Spas: Fencing & Safety Requirements (2026)

060(B) folds the county's pool-barrier requirement into the same fence chapter that sets general yard height limits, rather than housing it in a separate swimming-pool code, so it follows the same enforcement path as any other fence or setback violation. The standard is deliberately broad: it reaches not just the pool basin but 'all accessories thereto, and all entries thereto,' meaning pumps, filter equipment, ladders, and gates tied to the pool fall under the same six-foot, impassable requirement. The code defines a regulated pool by depth rather than by size or permanence: any pool 'over two feet in depth at any point' qualifies, sweeping in many above-ground and inflatable pools that homeowners might assume are too small or temporary to need a barrier, while a natural lake on the property is expressly carved out.

Because the fence sits inside whatever yard the pool occupies, it must also respect the underlying yard setback in Table A; this is a stand-alone six-foot minimum specific to pools, not the six-foot residential side-yard cap that applies to ordinary fences elsewhere in the same section. A homeowner installing a pool should plan the fence and any gate hardware before the pool goes into the ground, since the Improvement Location Permit process administered by the Area Plan Commission reviews accessory structures, including pool enclosures, against this section.