CHAPTER 30 ELEVATORS AND CONVEYING SYSTEMS

1 CHAPTER 30 ELEVATORS AND CONVEYING SYSTEMSSECTION CHAPTER governs the design, construction,installation,alteration,rep air and maintenance of elevatorsand CONVEYING SYSTEMS and their :Other administrative and programmatic provisions mayapply. See the Department of Business and Professional Regu-lation [DBPR] CHAPTER 399, FloridaStatutes, and 61C-5,Florida Administrative Code. The regulation and enforcementof the following sections of the adopted codes, and theiraddenda, are preempted to the Bureau of elevator Safety of theDepartment of Business and Professional regulation.

2 , ASME andASME Referenced as otherwise providedfor in this code, the design, construction, installation,alter-ation, repair and maintenance of ELEVATORS and CONVEYING sys-tems and their components shall conform to B44, ASME , ASME , ASME ,ASME , ALI ALCTV, and ASCE 24-05 for constructionin flood hazard Division of Hotels and Restaurants may grant excep-tions, variances and waivers to theElevator Safety Codeasauthorized by theSafety Code for ELEVATORS and Escalators(ASME , Section ) andFlorida Statutes(Chapter120). ELEVATORS are required to beaccessibleby theFlorida Building Code, Change in change in use of an elevator fromfreight to passenger, passenger to freight, or from one freightclass to another freight class shall comply with Section ofASME Design, installation and alteration of new elevator shall comply with theFloridaElevator Safety Codethat was in effect at the time of receiptof application for the construction permit for the alteration to, or relocation of.

3 An elevatorshall comply with the Florida elevator Safety Code that wasin effect at the time of receipt of the application for the con-struction permit for the alteration or existing ELEVATORS shall comply with used in this CHAPTER , the following terms shall change to equipment, including its parts,components, and/or subsystems, other than maintenance,repair, or OF OPERATION means a document issuedby the department which indicates that the conveyance has hadthe required safety inspection and tests and that fees have beenpaid as provided in CHAPTER 399,Florida elevator , dumbwaiter, escalator, movingsidewalk, platform lift and stairway the purpose of this section, means theDepartment of Business and Professional the purpose of this section, means the Divi-sion of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Businessand Professional of the following mechanical devices.

4 (a) A hoisting and lowering mechanism, equipped with a carand platform that moves in guide rails and serves two ormore landings to transport material or passengers or both.(b) An escalator, which is a power-driven, inclined continu-ous stairway used for raising or lowering passengers.(c) A dumbwaiter, which is a hoisting and lowering mecha-nism equipped with a car of limited size which moves inguide rails and serves two or more landings.(d) A moving walk, which is a type of passenger-carryingdevice on which passengers stand or walk and in which thepassenger-carrying surface remains parallel to its directionof motion and is uninterrupted.

5 (e) An inclined stairway chairlift, which is a device used totransport physically handicapped persons over architecturalbarriers.(f) An inclined or vertical wheelchair lift, which is a deviceused to transport wheelchair handicapped persons overarchitectural hoists and material hoists within thescope of ASME lifts within the scope of ASME scaffolds, towers, and platforms withinthe scope of ANSI platforms and equipment for exteriorand interior maintenance within the scope ofASME and related equipment within thescope of ASME , derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks and slingswithin the scope of ASME trucks within the scope of ASME equipment.

6 Except for portable escala-tors that are covered by this or piling machines used to move materialsto and from storage located and operatingentirely within one Equipment for feeding or positioning materialsat machine tools and printing FLORIDA BUILDING CODE Skip or furnace Wharf Railroad car lifts or Line jacks, false cars, shafters, moving platformsand similar equipment used for installing an ele-vator by a contractor licensed in this Automated people movers at ELEVATORS in television and radio Hand-operated Sewage pump station Automobile parking Equipment covered in Section of Safety Code for ELEVATORS and ELEVATORS , inclined stairway chairlifts, andinclined or vertical wheelchair lifts located in pri-vate installation defined as an escalator in theFlorida Building installation defined as an installation.

7 Existing in theFlorida Building separate dwelling or a separateapartment in a multiple dwelling which is occupied by mem-bers of a single 3002 HOISTWAY Hoistway enclosure , dumbwaiterand other hoistway enclosures shall be shaft enclosures com-plying with Section Opening in hoistwayenclosures shall be protected as required in CHAPTER :The elevator car doors and the associatedhoistway enclosure doors at the floor level designated forrecall in accordance with Section shall be permit-ted to remain open during Phase I Emergency on opening protectivesshall be of anapprovedtype installed as tested, except thatapprovedinterlocks, mechanical locks and electric con-tacts.

8 Door and gate electric contacts and door-operatingmechanisms shall be exempt from the fire test Number of elevator cars in a four ormore elevator cars serve all or the same portion of a building,the ELEVATORS shall be located in at least two separate more than four elevator cars shall be located in any singlehoistway Emergency sign of a stan-dardized design shall be posted adjacent to each elevator callstation on all floors instructing occupants to use theexit stair-waysand not to use the ELEVATORS in case of fire. The sign shallread: IN FIRE EMERGENCY, DO NOT USE EXIT :1.

9 The emergency sign shall not be required for elevatorsthat are part of anaccessible means of egresscomplyingwith Section The emergency sign shall not be required for elevatorsthat are used for occupant self-evacuation in accordancewith Section elevator car to accommodate ambulance building that is more than three stories high or in which thevertical distance between the bottom terminal landing and thetop terminal landing exceeds 25 feet, must be constructed tocontain at least one passenger elevator that is operational forbuilding occupants and fire department emergency access to allfloors.

10 The elevator car shall be of such a size and arrangementto accommodate an ambulance stretcher 24 inches by 76 inches(610 mm by 1950 mm) with not less than 5-inch (127 mm)radius corners, in the horizontal, open position and shall beidentified by the international symbol for emergency medicalservices (star of life). The symbol shall not be less than 3 inches(76 mm) high and shall be placed inside on both sides of thehoistway door Emergency an elevator is installed in asingle blind hoistway or on the outside of a building, there shallbe installed in the blind portion of the hoistway or blank face ofthe building, an emergency door in accordance with Prohibited , other than hoistway doorsand the elevator car door, shall be prohibited at the point ofaccess to an elevator car unless such doors are readily openablefrom the car side without a key, tool.