Yes — Iowa rule 641—15.4(135I) requires the phone to be within an enclosure or building adjacent to the pool.
Iowa requires the emergency telephone to be located within an enclosure or building adjacent to the pool and available for emergency use.
Citation: 641—15.4(135I)
Placing the phone inside a pool house, cabana, or equipment room next to the pool typically satisfies Iowa's "adjacent building" language, as long as it stays accessible to swimmers and staff during pool hours.
Carriers across the U.S. are retiring traditional copper landlines. If your pool emergency phone still relies on a copper line in Iowa, that service can go dark without warning — which is why many properties are switching to cellular emergency phones.
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Data provided by CHNLSYNC Copper Retirement Tracker.
SouthEast Telephone installs and monitors cellular emergency pool phones nationwide and can help you meet Iowa's requirements.
