Residential pool safety is set by the state ISPSC (barrier, gate alarms, anti-entrapment drains), enforced by your municipality. Public and community pools answer to the PA Department of Health under 28 Pa. Code Chapter 18. Lehigh County sets no separate pool-safety rule.
For backyard pools, the ISPSC adopted through the PA UCC governs barriers, self-latching gates, door alarms, and suction-entrapment protection on drains. For public and semi-public pools (clubs, HOAs, campgrounds), the PA Department of Health regulates safety under 28 Pa. Code Chapter 18 and the Public Bathing Law. Section 18.41 requires facilities to reduce the danger of drowning and other injuries to a practical minimum. Private single-family and condominium pools are outside DOH permitting and instead follow the UCC through your local code office.
Public bathing places operating unsafely or without a DOH permit face enforcement under the Public Bathing Law (35 P.S. §§ 672-680d), including closure.
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