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 I - Administrative Regulations › Article 2 - Permit to Operate › Section 3001 - Permit to Operate

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
						Submittal of Plans and Notification of Intent to Install.
(1) The person or firm who intends to install
						a new elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, moving walk, or manlift, shall submit
						the erection plans to the Division for review. In lieu of complete erection
						drawings and plans, the division will accept notification from a recognized
						elevator company that they intend to install a device covered by these
						regulations of a certain type at a definite address, and subsequent
						notification to the division that the installation is complete and ready for
						inspection.
(2) The Division may
						require drawings and details of construction of any portion of an installation
						when complete erection plans are not submitted.
(3) When an installation requires material,
						fabrication, or construction other than recognized standard types or has an
						offset car frame or is an observation type elevator installed in other than a
						fully enclosed hoistway, drawings and details shall be submitted to the
						Division prior to installation.
(4)
						Alterations to existing passenger or freight elevators as defined in section
						3000(h) shall be
						considered as new installations for submittal of plans or notice of intent to
						make the alteration and the subsequent notification that the work is complete
						and ready for inspection. The notice of intent shall include a complete
						description of the alteration.
(5)
						The person or firm doing the work of replacing door locking devices, safety
						devices, governors, or oil buffers on existing installations of passenger or
						freight elevators shall notify the Division when the work is complete and ready
						for inspection.
(6) The person or
						firm installing a new hand power man platform shall notify the Division when
						the installation is complete and ready for inspection.
(7) The person or firm responsible for
						special maintenance operations such as the cleaning of glass or the replacement
						of lamps that cannot be performed from inside the elevator car, shall submit a
						plan to the Division outlining a safe method that will be used to perform the
						maintenance.
(8) The person or firm
						installing a static control shall provide the Division with information showing
						that the control complies with the requirements of Group II, sections
						3040(f)(4) and
						3040(f)(7). This
						information shall be in the form of either:
(A) Electrical schematic diagrams or block
						diagrams of the control and safety circuits; or
(B) A written checkout procedure and
						demonstration of safety and speed control circuits required by sections
						3040(f)(4) and
						3040(f)(7) at the
						time of the inspection.
EXCEPTION TO SECTION
						  3001(a)(8):
						  Installation of static control for Group IV installations shall comply with
						  Group IV, section
						  3141.3.