California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 6 - Elevator Safety Orders › Group II - Elevator Installations for Which the Installation Contract Was Signed Before October 25, 1998 › Article 8 - Machinery and Equipment for Power Cable-Driven Passenger and Freight Elevators › Section 3041 - Emergency and Signal Devices

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Emergency Devices for Summoning
						Assistance. (Title 24, part 7, section
						7-3041(a)).
(1)
Passenger elevators and automatic
						operation freight elevators shall be provided with an emergency alarm system,
						operable from within the car, which will provide effective means for summoning
						assistance at all hours in case of emergency
.
(2) New installations of passenger or freight
						elevators, which are operated at any time without a designated operator in the
						car, shall be provided with one of the two following emergency alarm systems.
(A) A telephone in each elevator car,
						connected to a central telephone exchange providing 24 hour service.
(B) A system meeting the following
						requirements.
1. An electric bell, operable
						from the car, not less than 6 inches in diameter, located inside the building
						and audible inside and outside the hoistway. One bell operable from all cars
						may be used for a group of elevators.
2. Means for two-way conversation between
						each elevator and a readily accessible point outside the hoistway.
EXCEPTIONS:
1.
						Elevators in buildings having a height from the lowest to the highest elevator
						landing of not more than 65 feet, providing the distance between any adjacent
						landing does not exceed 15 feet.
2.
						When the means of communication with an approved emergency service permits
						two-way conversation. See section
						3041(a)(3)(B).
3. If the bell or the means of two-way
						conversation, or both, are normally connected to the building power supply,
						they shall automatically transfer to a source of emergency power within 10
						seconds after the normal supply fails. The power source shall be capable of
						providing for the operation of the bell for one hour and the means of two-way
						conversation for 4 hours.
(3) Where elevators, which are operated at
						any time without a designated operator in the car, are located in buildings,
						other than apartments, hotels, or similar residential buildings, where
						attendants, watchmen, or tenants are not continuously available to take action
						in case the emergency signal is operated, and are not provided with a telephone
						in the elevator car connected to a central exchange system, they shall be
						provided with one of the following additional emergency signal devices.
(A) An electrical alarm bell, not less than 6
						inches in diameter operable from inside the car shall be mounted in a
						weatherproof enclosure on the outside of the building near the main entrance. A
						sign that can be read from the adjacent sidewalk shall be mounted on or near
						the bell and shall be marked "ELEVATOR EMERGENCY, CALL POLICE" in letters not
						less than 2 inches high. Only one outside alarm bell is required, which shall
						be operable from the cars of all elevators of the type specified in the
						building. An emergency power source meeting the requirements of section
						3041(a)(2)(B)3
						shall be provided.
(B) Means within
						the car for communicating with or signaling to an approved emergency service
						which operates 24 hours each day.
(4)
A sign, having lettering not less
						than 
						3/16 inch,
						shall be provided in passenger elevators adjacent to the car emergency alarm
						giving instructions as to the use of the device for summoning
						assistance
.