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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="12-801" title_number="12" title_name="Building and Material Codes; Other Safety Provisions" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Elevator Safety">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Accessibility lift mechanic” means a person who is engaged in erecting, constructing, wiring, altering, replacing, maintaining, repairing, dismantling, or servicing commercial stairway chairlifts, vertical platform lifts, or incline platform lifts.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Accessibility lift mechanic specialist” means a person who is licensed as an accessibility lift mechanic and has been certified by the Board to erect, construct, wire, alter, replace, maintain, repair, dismantle, or service private residential elevators.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Board” means the Elevator Safety Review Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Certificate” means a certificate of registration and inspection issued by the Commissioner to operate an elevator unit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Cliffside elevator” means an elevator located at, on, or adjacent to the side of a cliff or a natural incline that is intended for use by individuals.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Labor and Industry or an authorized representative of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Direct–acting hydraulic elevator” means an elevator in which the energy is applied by a direct hydraulic driving machine.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Dumbwaiter” means a hoisting and lowering machine equipped with a car of limited capacity and size that moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction and is used exclusively for carrying material.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Elevator” means a hoisting and lowering machine equipped with a car or platform that moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction and serves two or more floors of a building or structure.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Elevator contractor” means a person who is engaged in the business of erecting, constructing, wiring, altering, replacing, maintaining, repairing, dismantling, or servicing elevator or accessibility lift units.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Elevator mechanic” means a person who is engaged in erecting, constructing, wiring, altering, replacing, maintaining, repairing, dismantling, or servicing elevator or accessibility lift units.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Elevator refinisher” means a person who is engaged in the refinishing of existing metal and wood elements in elevator cabs, including the stripping of old lacquer on wood and bronze items, staining wood to match existing finishes, cleaning, polishing, oxidizing, painting, lacquering, and the removing of scratches to maintain existing finishes.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Elevator renovator contractor” means a person who is engaged in the business of performing work:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on the interior of an elevator involving the removal or installation of the nonstructural surface of the elevator’s wall, ceiling, floor, rail, or handle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>that does not affect the elevator’s moving operation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Elevator renovator mechanic” means a person who performs work:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on the interior of an elevator involving the removal or installation of the nonstructural surface of the elevator’s wall, ceiling, floor, rail, or handle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>that does not affect the elevator’s moving operation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Elevator unit” includes a cliffside elevator, an elevator, an escalator, a dumbwaiter, and a moving walk.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“Escalator” means a power driven, inclined, continuous stairway used for raising and lowering passengers.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“License” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an accessibility lift mechanic license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an elevator contractor license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>an elevator mechanic license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>an elevator renovator contractor license; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>an elevator renovator mechanic license.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="s">
    <text>“Moving walk” means a type of passenger–carrying device on which passengers stand or walk and in which the passenger–carrying surface remains parallel to its direction of motion and is uninterrupted.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="t">
    <text>“Safety Code” means the American National Standard/American Society of Mechanical Engineers Safety Code for Elevators, Dumbwaiters, Escalators, and Moving Walks, known as ANSI A17.1–1971, and all subsequent amendments and revisions to it, as adopted by the Commissioner.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="u">
    <text>“Secretary” means the Secretary of Labor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="v">
    <text>“Third–party qualified elevator inspector” means an inspector who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>meets the qualifications, insurance requirements, and procedures established by the Commissioner; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is certified by a nationally recognized safety organization accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies or the American National Standards Institute that ensures that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the certification requires testing and grading consistent with industry recognized criteria and any related consensus standards; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any renewal of certification requires continuing education.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
