UPDATE: Recent Clarifications from the New Jersey Department of Health on the Amendments to the Public Recreational Bathing Code (NJ)

In our most recent blog post, we responded to a reader considering eliminating the lifeguard at their pool. This is something that many communities have considered doing this pool season as a result of the amendments to the Public Recreational Bathing Code, N.J.A.C. 8:26-1 (the “Code”), particularly the requirement that facilities with pools larger than 2,000 square feet of surface area have at least two lifeguards on duty. Recently, the New Jersey Department of Health issued a Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQ”) clarifying that a “private nonprofit common interest community” is a “specially exempt facility” and thus exempt from the lifeguard requirements of the Code.    Read the article………………