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"403.7 Residential pools. Residential pools shall be provided with energy conserving measures in accordance with Sections 403.7.1 through 403.7.3. 403.7.1 Pool heaters. All pool heaters shall be equipped with a readily accessible on -off switch to allow shutting off the heater without adjusting the thermostat setting. Pool heaters fired by liquid propane or natural gas shall not have continuously burning pilot lights. 403.7.2 Time switches. Time switches that can automatically turn off and on heaters and pumps according to a preset schedule shall be installed on swimming pool heaters and pumps. Exceptions: 1. Where public health standards require 24 -hour pump operation; 2. Where pumps are required to operate solar- and waste -heat- recovery pool heating systems. 403.7.3 Pool covers. Heated pools shall be equipped with a vapor retardant pool cover on or at the water surface. Pools heated to more than 90 ° F (32 ° C) shall have a pool cover with a minimum insulation value of R- 12. Exception: Pools deriving over 60 percent of the energy for heating from site - recovered energy or solar energy source. ' SECTION 6. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through. Material to be added is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring need not be printed. The Revisor shall renumber items under Section 3 of Ordinance No. 09 -48 in accordance with those items that have been repealed by this ordinance. SECTION 7. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the ordinance that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. SECTION 8. This ordinance shall take effect upon approval. INT• ODUC - D BY: P COUNCIL EMBER, 10 TY O HAWAII Hilo , Hawai`i Date of Introduction: May 19, 2010 Date of 1 Reading: May 19, 2010 Date of 2 Reading: June 8, 2010 Effective Date: June 18, 2010 REFERENCE Comm. 825 3