Section 27-1000
§ 27-1000 Inspection agencies and elevator repair service. (a) The
required periodic inspections shall be made by the department except
that two of the five inspections required every two years for elevators
and escalators shall be made on behalf of the owner by an insurance
company, elevator maintenance company, elevator manufacturer, elevator
inspection company, or other person, each of which must be acceptable to
the commissioner. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations
establishing criteria as to the qualifications of such companies or
persons. Such owner shall cause such inspections to be performed between
January first and September fifteenth of each year. Reports by private
inspection agencies shall be on such forms and in such manner as
required by the commissioner. Such report shall be delivered to the
owner of each elevator or escalator inspected listing all violations of
any of the provisions of this subchapter within five days of inspection,
and a signed copy of the report of each inspection shall be filed with
the commissioner. The failure to have such inspection performed within
the prescribed period and to file a copy of the report with the
department on or before September thirtieth of each year shall be a
violation of this section, which shall be punishable pursuant to the
provisions of section 26-125 of title twenty-six of the administrative
code. After such violation is placed the owner may file such report and
the department shall enter a notation in its records of the date on
which such report was received by the department. After the date of
receipt by the department, the per diem penalty provided by subdivision
c of section 26-125 of title twenty-six of the administrative code shall
be stayed. The department shall maintain the violation on its records,
with a notation of the date on which such a report was received by the
department. On or before October fifteenth of each year all defects as
found upon such inspection shall be corrected.
(b) In addition to the requirements of subdivision (a) of this
section, all reports filed on or after April first, nineteen hundred
eighty-seven for existing buildings required to install stair and
elevator signs pursuant to section 27-390, elevator in readiness systems
pursuant to paragraph two of subdivision (c) of section 27-989 of
article one of this subchapter or firemen service operation pursuant to
section 27-996.2 of article two of this subchapter, shall contain a
certification that the required installation has been made. The reports
shall be on such forms and in such manner as the commissioner may
require. Failure to file such report by such a date shall be a violation
of this section, and shall be punishable pursuant to section 26-125 of
title twenty-six of the administrative code.
(c) In multiple dwellings (either J1 or J2 occupancy groups), the
owner shall be required to have a contract with an elevator repair
person or company authorizing the performance of emergency elevator
repair work. Such repair person or company shall be one of the elevator
inspection agencies or inspectors employed thereby currently acceptable
to the commissioner. The name, address and telephone number of such
elevator repair person or company shall be maintained on each premises,
in a location readily accessible to employees of this department, and
maintenance or custodial staff at the premises.
Section 27-997
§ 27-997 Acceptance tests. No new, relocated or altered equipment
shall be placed in operation until it has been tested and an equipment
use permit has been issued by the commissioner. Such tests shall be made
as required in section 27-999 of this article and shall be conducted by
the person or firm installing, relocating or altering the equipment and
shall be witnessed by a representative of the commissioner.
Section 27-998
§ 27-998 Periodic inspection and test intervals. Every new and
existing device listed in article one of this subchapter except
elevators located, (i) in owner occupied one-family or two-family
dwellings provided that the elevator services only the owner occupied
dwelling unit and that such dwelling unit is not occupied by boarders,
roomers or lodgers, or (ii) within convents or rectories which are not
accessible to non-occupants on a regular basis, or (iii) within an owner
occupied dwelling unit which is not occupied by boarders, roomers or
lodgers, shall be inspected and tested at least at the following
intervals:
(a) Elevators -- five times every two years, or as otherwise provided
by the commissioner and except:
(1) Car safeties and counterweight safeties, where provided, shall be
inspected at intervals not exceeding one year and shall be tested at
intervals not exceeding two years.
(2) Oil buffers and governors shall be periodically inspected and
shall be tested at intervals not exceeding one year.
(3) Hydraulic elevator pressure tanks and the piston rods of roped
hydraulic elevators every three years.
(b) Escalators -- five times every two years.
(c) Amusement devices -- every six months except that the commissioner
may extend the periodic inspection and test for an additional two months
for amusement devices located in premises which are seasonally operated.
(d) Workers' hoists -- every three months and immediately following
each increase in travel.
(e) All other devices at such intervals as the commissioner may
require.
(f) Additional inspections -- in addition to the inspections required
by subdivisions (a) through (e) of this section, the commissioner may
make such additional inspections as required to enforce the provisions
of this code. No fee shall be charged for such additional inspections.
(g) Fees -- every owner of elevators and other devices shall pay to
the department an inspection fee for each elevator or device in the
amount prescribed by subdivision c of section 26-213 of title twenty-six
of the administrative code.
Section 27-999
§ 27-999 Inspection and test requirements. Every new and existing
device listed in article one of this subchapter shall be subjected to
inspections and test requirements as follows:
(a) Elevators, dumbwaiters and escalators to the requirements
specified in the reference standard RS 18-1 except that:
(1) Governor operated elevator car safeties shall be tested with no
load in the car at the lowest operating speed.
(2) Instantaneous type car safeties, without governors, operated only
as a result of the breaking or slackening of the hoist ropes shall be
tested with no load in the car.
(b) Moving walks to the requirements specified in the reference
standard RS 18-1.
(c) Lifts, conveyors, and amusement devices shall be inspected and
subjected to the test requirements of the applicable reference standards
and shall be tested to confirm the load capacity and safety of operation
of the equipment, including tests of all operating protective safety
devices, adequacy of the structural supports, and anchorage to floors,
walls, ceilings and foundations.
(d) All other devices shall be subject to such inspections and tests
as the commission may require.
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