Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4101:5 - Elevators: Elevator Code › Chapter 4101:5-1 - General Provisions › Section 4101:5-1-02 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
This rule defines terms used in rules
				4101:5-1-01 to
				4101:5-3-02 of the
				Administrative Code.
For definitions
				of terms not contained herein, refer to the
				"ASME" standards listed in rule
				4101:5-3-01 of the
				Administrative Code.
"ASME" means the "American Society of Mechanical Engineers."
				Referenced standards, codes, and related technical information developed by
				this organization can be purchased by logging on to
http://www.asme.org
or by calling
				1-800-the-asme.
"Board" means the board of building standards as established by
				section 3781.07 of the Revised Code and
				authorized by division (A) of section
				4105.011 of the Revised Code to
				formulate rules and regulations governing the design, construction, repair,
				alteration, and maintenance of elevators.
"Board of building appeals" means the board of building appeals
				as established by section
				3781.19 of the Revised
				Code.
"Division" means the division of industrial compliance in the
				department of commerce.
"Elevator" means, a hoisting and lowering apparatus equipped
				with a car, cage, or platform which moves on or between permanent rails or
				guides and serves two or more fixed landings in a building or structure to
				which section 3781.06 of the Revised Code
				applies. "Elevator" includes dumb-waiters other than hand-powered dumb-waiters,
				escalators, manlifts of the endless belt type, moving walks, other lifting or
				lowering apparatus permanently installed on or between rails or guides, and all
				equipment, machinery, and construction related to any elevator; but does not
				include construction hoists and other similar temporary lifting or lowering
				apparatuses, ski lifts, traveling, portable amusement rides or devices that are
				not affixed to a permanent foundation, or nonportable amusement rides or
				devices that are affixed to a permanent foundation.
"Freight elevator" means an elevator normally used for carrying
				freight and on which only the operator and employees in the pursuit of their
				duties, by the permission of the employer, are allowed to ride.
"General inspector" means a state inspector examined and hired
				to inspect elevators and lifting apparatus for that state.
"Inspector" means either a general or special inspector.
"Moving walks" means a type of passenger-carrying device on
				which passengers stand or walk, and in which the passenger-carrying surface
				remains parallel to its direction of motion and is uninterrupted.
"Owner or user" means any person, firm or corporation owning or
				operating any elevator.
"Special inspector" means an inspector examined and
				commissioned by the superintendent to inspect elevators and lifting apparatus
				in the state.
"Superintendent" means the superintendent of the division of
				industrial compliance created in the department of commerce under section
				121.04 of the Revised Code, or
				the person designated by the superintendent as responsible for the enforcement
				of rules
				4101:5-1-01 to
				4101:5-3-02 and
				1301:3-6-01 to
				1301:3-6-06 of the
				Administrative Code.