2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 33 - Elevators and Other Conveyances; Licensing › 950 - Application.

§ 950. Application. 1. This article covers licensing of businesses and
occupations   that   engage   in   design,  construction,  installation,
inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, service, and repair of the
following equipment:
(a) hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a car  or  platform
which  moves  between two or more landings. This equipment includes, but
is  not  limited  to  elevators,  platform  lifts,  and  non-residential
stairway chair lifts;
(b)  power  driven stairways and walkways for carrying persons between
landings. This equipment includes, but is not limited to, escalators and
moving walks;
(c) hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a car, which serves
two or more landings and is restricted to the carrying  of  material  by
its  limited size or limited access to the car. This equipment includes,
but is not limited to, dumbwaiters, material lifts, and dumbwaiters with
automatic transfer devices as defined in section nine hundred  fifty-one
of this article; and
(d)  automatic  guided transit vehicles on guideways with an exclusive
right-of-way. This equipment includes, but is not limited to,  automated
people movers.
2. The following equipment is not covered by this article:
(a) personnel and material hoists;
(b) manlifts;
(c) mobile scaffolds, towers, and platforms;
(d)   powered  platforms  and  equipment  for  exterior  and  interior
maintenance;
(e) conveyor and related equipment;
(f) cranes, derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks, and slings;
(g) industrial trucks;
(h) portable equipment, except for portable escalators;
(i) tiering and piling machines used to move  materials  to  and  from
storage located and operating entirely within one story;
(j)  equipment for feeding or positioning materials including, but not
limited to, machine tools and printing presses;
(k) skip or furnace hoists;
(l) wharf ramps;
(m) railroad car lifts or dumpers;
(n) stairway chairlifts for private residences; and
(o) line jacks, false cars, shafters, moving  platforms,  and  similar
equipment  used  for  installing an elevator by a contractor licensed in
this state.
3. The licensing provisions of this article shall  not  apply  to  the
owners  or lessees of private residences who design, construct, install,
alter, repair, service, or maintain conveyances that are located or will
be located in such owner or lessee's  private  residence.  However,  any
person  hired  to  design,  construct,  install, alter, repair, service,
maintain, or perform any other work related  to  such  conveyances  must
comply with the provisions of this article.
4.  No  license  shall  be  required for the removal or dismantling of
conveyances.
5.  No  license  shall  be  required  for  the  outfitting,   removal,
refinishing, or replacement of interior finishes, including wall panels,
drop  ceilings,  handrails  and  flooring,  removal  or  replacement  of
interior lighting,  recladding  of  doors,  transoms  and  front  return
panels, finishing, or ornamental work on car operating panels.
6.  The  provisions  of  this  article  and the rules adopted pursuant
thereto shall be the minimum standard required and shall  supersede  any
special  law  or  local  ordinance  inconsistent therewith, and no local

ordinance inconsistent therewith shall be adopted,  but  nothing  herein
contained  shall  prevent  the  enactment  by  local law or ordinance of
additional requirements and restrictions.
7.  Any  municipal  corporation  may  waive  licensing  fees  for  any
individual seeking an elevator license, or its  equivalent,  offered  by
such   municipal  corporation  if  such  individual  holds  an  elevator
mechanic's license pursuant to this article; provided, however, that any
elevator mechanic's license, or its equivalent, offered by  a  municipal
corporation  shall  not  be  inconsistent  with the requirements of this
article and nothing herein shall prevent the enactment by local  law  or
ordinance of additional requirements.