Rock Island County, IL Swimming Pools & Spas: Fencing & Safety Requirements (2026)

17(P) of the county's Mobile Home and Mobile Home Park Code requires that no public or private swimming pool be erected inside a licensed mobile home park unless it is entirely enclosed by a building, fence, or wall between five and seven feet tall, built so that a child cannot reach the pool from the street or an adjacent property without opening a door or gate or scaling the barrier. Any gaps or openings in the fence are capped at four inches, and the enclosure must have a self-latching gate or door with the latch mounted at least four feet above the ground and capable of being locked; every exterior door or gate must stay locked whenever no adult with direct control over the pool area is supervising it.

The ordinance treats this pool enclosure as an addition to, not a substitute for, the individual mobile home space fencing already required elsewhere in the chapter. 17(O) requires any approved park pool or bathing beach to be built and operated to the State Department of Public Health's Minimum Sanitary Requirements for the Design and Operation of Swimming Pools and Bathing Beaches, with separate plans submitted to the state before construction. Because both provisions sit inside Chapter 151's park design and construction requirements, they govern pools built within a licensed mobile home park in the unincorporated county, whether that pool serves the whole park or an individual resident's leased space.