---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4032"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4032"
heading: "Treatment of swimming pool enclosures outside of hurricane season"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4032"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — National Flood Insurance"
  - "Subchapter I — The National Flood Insurance Program"
---

# §4032. Treatment of swimming pool enclosures outside of hurricane season

- (a) **In general—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including the adequate land use and control measures developed pursuant to [section 4102 of this title](/usc/42/4102.md) and applicable to non-one- and two-family structures located within coastal areas, as identified by the [Administrator](/usc/42/4003.md?p=a-6), the following may be permitted:
  - (1) Nonsupporting breakaway walls in the space below the lowest elevated floor of a building, if the space is used solely for a swimming pool between November 30 and June 1 of any year, in an area designated as Zone V on a [flood](/usc/42/4121.md?p=a-1) insurance rate map.
  - (2) Openings in walls in the space below the lowest elevated floor of a building, if the space is used solely for a swimming pool between November 30 and June 1 of any year, in an area designated as Zone A on a [flood](/usc/42/4121.md?p=a-1) insurance rate map.
- (b) **Rule of construction—** Nothing in [subsection (a)](#a) shall be construed to alter the terms and conditions of eligibility and insurability of coverage for a building under the standard [flood](/usc/42/4121.md?p=a-1) insurance policy under the [national flood insurance program](/usc/42/4004.md?p=a-4).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–448, title XIII, § 1325, as added Pub. L. 112–141, div. F, title II, § 100242, July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 962.)