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 3040 - Operating Devices and Control Equipment

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Operation and Operating Devices.
(1) Operating devices shall be of the
						enclosed electric type.
Rope or rod operating devices actuated directly
						by hand, or rope-operating devices actuated by wheels, levers, or cranks shall
						not be used.
(2)
Handles of car-switch operation elevators shall be so arranged that
						they will return to the stop position and latch there automatically when the
						hand of the operator is removed.
EXCEPTION: Elevators installed before 1925 may omit the
						  automatic latch.
All existing elevators having preregister
						  signal or car-switch automatic floor stop operation, and which are not equipped
						  with a contacted car door or gate, shall have the operating device so arranged
						  that the power will be cut off from the machine and the brake applied when the
						  hand of the operator is removed from the operating device, except when the car
						  is being operated by the leveling device in the leveling
						  zone.
(3)
For all types of elevators, the car operating device and the machine
						controller shall be labeled so as to designate the up and down car
						movement.
EXCEPTION: The operating device for signal or automatic
						  operation elevators.
Car-switch or hand-lever operating levers shall
						  be so arranged that the movement of the lever toward the entrance door (which
						  the operator usually faces) will cause the car to descend, and the movement of
						  the lever away from the door will cause the car to ascend.
EXCEPTION:
1.
						Starting levers for signal operation elevators.
2. Existing hydraulic
						elevators.
(4) Means
						shall be provided to operate the elevator from the top of the car during
						adjustment, inspection, maintenance, or repair.
The operating means shall conform to the
						  following:
(A) It shall be of the
						continuous-pressure type.
(B) It
						shall operate the car at a speed not exceeding 150 feet per minute and shall be
						dependent on the normal terminal stopping devices as the limits of travel in
						either direction.
(C) It shall
						operate the car only when the car door or gate is in the closed position and
						when all hoistway doors are in the closed position and, where required by these
						regulations, locked.
(D) It may be
						of the portable type, provided the extension cord is permanently attached to a
						car top fixture so that the device cannot be removed.
(E) It shall be so arranged and connected
						that, when operative, the movement of the car shall be solely under the control
						of this device, except as provided in Section
						3040(a)(4)(G); and
						any power-door operating devices shall be inoperative. The transfer switch or
						other means for accomplishing this function shall be located between the car
						crosshead and that side of the car which is nearest to the hoistway door used
						for access to the top of the car.
(F) The device shall be used only for the
						purpose of adjustment, inspection, maintenance, or repair of the elevator or
						hoistway equipment.
(G) Separate
						additional means, of the continuous-pressure type, may also be provided to make
						power-door operating devices and automatic car-leveling devices operative from
						the top of the car for testing purposes.
(H) The car top shall be kept free of grease
						or oil that would present a slipping hazard at this operating
						station.
(I) All elevators with car
						tops shall be provided with a top-of-car stop switch conforming to Section
						3040(b)(5).
(J)
All elevators with car tops shall
						be provided with a top-of-car electric light with switch and convenience
						outlet
connected to a power source not disconnected by any action of
						the elevator control circuits.
EXCEPTION: Elevators installed before June 5,
						  1947.
(5)
						Operation of an elevator in a leveling or truck zone at any landing by a
						car-leveling or truck-zoning device, when the landing doors or the car doors or
						gates are not in the closed position, is permissible subject to the following:
(A)
Operating devices of manually
						operated car-leveling devices or truck-zoning devices shall be of the
						continuous-pressure type located in the car, and the device inoperative except
						in the zone specified.
(B)
Car platform guards conforming to Section
						3033(i) shall be
						provided, and where a car-leveling device is used, landing sill guards
						conforming to Section
						3020(a)(3)(B)
						shall also be provided.
(C)
For elevators without static
						controls arranged to level automatically, which can be started only from on the
						car, which are equipped with power-opened car doors, the zone shall not extend
						more than 3 feet above and 3 feet below the landing level.
(D) For elevators with static controls
						arranged to level automatically, the leveling zone shall extend not more than
						12" above and below the landing level.
(E) For elevators with static control, an
						inner leveling zone extending not more than three (3) inches above and three
						(3) inches below the landing shall be provided. A car shall not move if it
						stops outside of the inner leveling zone unless the doors are fully closed.
EXCEPTION: Elevators which comply with Section
						  3040(f)(4).
(F)
For elevators without static
						controls arranged to level automatically, which can be started from the
						landings and are equipped with manually operated car doors or gates, the zone
						shall not extend more than 1 inches above and 15 inches below the landing
						level.
(G)
Manually operated leveling devices (inching) are limited to a zone of
						12 inches above and 12 inches below the landing level.
(H)
The truck zone at any landing
						shall not extend more than 5 feet 6 inches above the
						landing.
(I) Where a truck
						or leveling zone for one hoistway entrance extends into the door interlocking
						zone for a second entrance, the truck-zoning or leveling operation shall be
						inoperative unless the hoistway door at the second entrance is in the closed
						position.
Where a truck or leveling zone for one hoistway
						  entrance extends into the leveling zone for a second entrance, the leveling
						  operation for the second entrance shall be inoperative while the hoistway door
						  at the first entrance is open.
EXCEPTION: The car may be operated by a car-leveling
						  device at any landing having two hoistway entrances within 2 inches of the same
						  level, with both car doors or gates and the corresponding hoistway doors open,
						  provided landing-sill guards conforming to Section
						  3020(a)(3)(B) are
						  installed at both floors.
(J)
A leveling or truck-zoning device
						shall move the car at a speed not more than 150 feet per
						minute.
(6)
						Automatic elevators shall conform to the following requirements:
(A)
If the car has started for a
						given landing in response to an impulse from a car button, no impulse can be
						given from any landing to send the car in the reverse direction until the car
						has reached the destination corresponding to the first impulse or to cause the
						car to fail to stop at the landing indicated by the first impulse.
EXCEPTION: This is not intended to prevent the use of a
						  key operated switch to gain control of an elevator for emergency
						  operation.
(B)
The
						car cannot be started by an impulse from a hall landing after completing a stop
						at a floor in response to the impulse from a car button until there has been a
						delay of not less than 5 seconds or the car door contact or the emergency stop
						switch has been operated.
(7) Constant pressure operation elevators
						shall be arranged so the car cannot be started by an impulse from a hall
						landing after a stop made by releasing the car button until there has been a
						delay of not less than 5 seconds or the car door contact or hoistway door
						locking device has been operated.
(8)
Existing elevators operated by a
						non-self centering device, shall be provided with a sequence device to prevent
						re-starting of the car after any electrical protective device or main line
						switch has opened the circuit unless the operating device has first been
						returned to the inoperative position.