Cherry Hill, NJ Swimming Pools & Spas: Pool Permits (2026)

Section 23-2.1 of the Revised General Ordinances flatly bars locating, constructing, altering or operating a swimming pool until the Township of Cherry Hill has issued a license, under the Township's adopted Swimming Pool Code of New Jersey (1970), described at Section 23-1.1 and 23-1.2. Section 23-2.2 sets the fee schedule: $100 for a license to locate and construct a pool, $10 to alter an existing pool, and for the license or renewal to operate a pool, fees run from $10 for a nonprofit swim club up to $250 for a commercial pool or hotel/motel pool, with other swim clubs paying $150.

Section 23-2.3 makes every operating license expire annually on April 30, with renewal applications and fees due before May 1 each year. Section 23-2.4 gives the Department of Health and Welfare authority to deny or suspend a pool license for failure to comply with the chapter or Code, though the affected person is entitled to a public hearing and a decision under the Code's procedures before that takes effect. Section 23-3 additionally requires all pools to be built to the applicable provisions of the state Uniform Construction Code (N.J.A.C.

5:23), and Section 23-6.1 requires a Certificate of Use and Occupancy before any newly built, altered or enlarged pool can be used, with the certificate subject to rescission if the pool is not properly operated. The license and fee scheme is the Township's own, layered on top of the state-adopted construction code; the annexed 1970 Swimming Pool Code of New Jersey text itself is on file at the Township Clerk's office rather than printed in the general code.