New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 23 - UNIFORM CONSTRUCTION CODE › Subchapter 12 - ELEVATOR SAFETY SUBCODE › Section 5:23-12.9 - Certificate of compliance requirements

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A device shall be
				granted a certificate of compliance by the construction official for the time period
				specified based upon
				5:23-12.3. No device shall be operated
				unless a valid certificate of compliance has been issued except for the initial
				period after work under a permit has been completed as per (f) below. Any violation
				shall be corrected before a new certificate of compliance may be issued.
(b) A temporary certificate of compliance may be
				issued by the construction official for a device in order to keep the device in
				operation on which work, as a result of violations, is being diligently performed,
				if the elevator subcode official finds that no hazard to the public is thereby
				created. A temporary certificate of compliance may be issued for no longer than the
				inspection cycle.
(c) The elevator
				subcode official shall provide written notice to the construction official whenever
				a temporary certificate of compliance or certificate of compliance is granted by the
				construction official.
(d) No
				certificate of compliance shall be issued for any elevator device in use on or
				before July 1, 1992 that is subject to these rules and is not registered with the
				Department in accordance with
				5:23-12.4, except elevator devices in
				structures classified as Group R-3, R-4, or R-5 shall be exempt from registration.
				Elevator devices wholly within dwelling units in structures of Group R-2 and not
				accessible to the general public shall also be exempt.
(e) No certificate of compliance or temporary
				certificate of compliance shall be issued for any elevator device, as required by
				this section, which has been approved to operate during the initial period, after a
				permit, in accordance with (f) below if the device has not been registered pursuant
				to this subchapter by its first cyclical inspection, even if a certificate of
				occupancy, temporary certificate of occupancy, or certificate of approval has been
				issued.
(f) Except as otherwise provided
				in (e) above, a new device or an existing device which has had work done under a
				permit shall be issued a certificate of compliance upon the first cyclical
				inspection based on the following:
1. A device has
				been approved following the inspection and witnessing of an acceptance test, as
				required by 5:23-12.2, by the application of an
				Inspection Sticker Approval for Elevator and a recommendation by the elevator
				subcode official on an Elevator Subcode Technical Section form for a certificate of
				occupancy or approval, as the case may be.
i. The
				date of the approval shall begin the cycle of inspections and tests for new devices
				in a new building and for new devices in an existing building which did not have
				elevator devices previously.
ii. The
				date of the approval of an existing device in an existing building shall not change
				the device's existing cycle of inspections and tests. The cycle shall remain
				consistent with the inspection cycle in the building, except the device shall not be
				subject to the five year test before it is due as long as the acceptance test
				performed under the permit was a full five year test.