50-53-209. Cooperative agreements -- inspections. (1) The department may enter into cooperative agreements with local boards of health to authorize those boards to act as agents of the department and to conduct inspections of and enforce applicable statutes and department rules relating to public swimming pools and public bathing places within the jurisdictions of the respective boards.
(2) The department or a local board of health, pursuant to a cooperative agreement, shall annually conduct:
(a) at least one full facility inspection and one critical point inspection of each public swimming pool or public bathing place operated throughout the year; and
(b) at least one full facility inspection of each seasonal public swimming pool or public bathing place.
(3) The department shall enter into cooperative agreements with the department of fish, wildlife, and parks and other state agencies that operate public swimming pools or public bathing places to address the enforcement of this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.
History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 708, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 93, L. 2003.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 53. Public Swimming Pools and Swimming Areas
Part 2. Licensure of Public Swimming Pools and Bathing Places
50-53-201. License required -- validation
50-53-202. Application for and right to license
50-53-203. License fee and late fee -- disposition
50-53-204. License expiration -- nontransferability
50-53-206. Validation of license required
50-53-207. Refusal of health officer to validate -- appeal to board
50-53-209. Cooperative agreements -- inspections
50-53-211. Denial, suspension, or cancellation of license -- multiple pool facility
50-53-212. Administrative enforcement -- notice -- department hearing
50-53-213. Compliance with corrective action plan as bar to further administrative enforcement
50-53-214. Return of license for alteration or destruction
50-53-216. Civil penalties -- other enforcement not barred
50-53-217. Recovery of costs by department or local jurisdiction
50-53-218. Department to pay board for inspections or enforcement, or both