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I live in a small HOA community where the only real extra is a nice
pool and clubhouse. At present we have a Pool management company that
while fairly expensive ($18,000 per year) they provide trained
certified lifeguards and do all pool maintenance, chemicals and all.
We recently discovered a technicality in Mecklenburg counties Pool
regulations that would allow us to operate the pool without lifeguards
IF;
we had a resident who was trained as a lifeguard
Who would agree to be somewhere in the neighborhood at all time pool
was open.
Who would allow their name to be submitted to the county as responsible
person
Who would respond to a audible alarm installed at the pool to be
activited when needed and
Would stop by the pool at least once a day and in the words of the
County official, "Collect the dead bodies out of the pool"
Now assuming that we found someone willing to do that is it really a
good idea to have a unguarded pool open in the middle of a community
with a lot of small children ????
Say a small child drowns, who would be liable ??? At present our pool
management company provides several million dollers of liability
insurance but only if there lifeguards are pressent.
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Pools, Lifeguards and liability
