New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Chapter I - Industrial Board Of Appeals › Subchapter A - The Industrial Code › Part 8 - Construction, Guarding, Equipment, Maintenance And Operation Of Elevators, Dumbwaiters, Escalators, Hoists And Hoistways In Factories And Mercantile Establishments › Subpart 8-2 - Hand Power › Definition of Terms › Section 8-2.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Approved shall
						mean approved by the Industrial Commissioner.
(b) Existing installations shall mean
						installations made before March 1, 1923.
(c) Future installations; installations
						hereafter shall mean installations after March 1, 1923.
(d) Hand power elevator shall mean a raising
						and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in
						a substantially vertical direction, operated by hand or gravity, the floor area
						of which exceeds nine square feet in a horizontal section and four feet in
						height.
(e) Hand power passenger
						elevator shall mean an elevator on which passengers or employees are permitted
						to ride.
(f) Hand power freight
						elevator shall mean an elevator operated by hand or gravity used for carrying
						freight on which only the operator and the employees necessary for loading and
						unloading shall be permitted to ride.
(g) Hand power platform elevator shall mean a
						freight elevator, the platform of which is suspended by chains or cables from
						its four corners and is without car crossheads and safeties.
(h) Hand power sidewalk elevator shall mean a
						hand power elevator the travel of which is from a point below sidewalk level to
						the sidewalk level or to a height not to exceed wagon or freight car loading
						level.
(i) Hand power dumbwaiter
						shall mean a raising or lowering mechanism operated by hand and equipped with a
						car or platform, the dimensions of which do not exceed nine square feet in a
						horizontal section and four feet in height.
(j) Hand hoist shall mean all mechanisms,
						apparatus and equipment, operated by hand and used for raising or lowering
						freight (without platform or car) by means of a sling or hook in a
						hoistway.
(k) Hoistway shall mean
						any shaft, well-hole, hatchway or other vertical opening or space, unenclosed,
						partly or wholly enclosed, in which the elevator car or dumbwaiter travels or
						in which material is raised or lowered by means of a sling or hook.
(l) Landing shall mean that portion of a
						floor, balcony or platform used to receive or discharge passengers or
						freight.
(m) Travel shall mean the
						vertical distance traveled by an elevator, dumbwaiter or hoist from the lowest
						to the highest landing.
(n) Sliding
						door or gate shall mean a door or gate sliding in a vertical or horizontal
						direction.
(o) Self-closing door or
						gate shall mean a door or gate which is opened manually and which closes
						automatically through the action of the car as it leaves the landing.
(p) Full automatic door or gate shall mean a
						door or gate which is opened automatically by the action of the elevator car
						approaching any landing and closed automatically through the action of the car
						as it leaves or passes any landing.
(q) Fire door means a door so constructed and
						of such material as specified in section
						8-2.18.
(r) Owner means the owner or owners of the
						freehold of the premises, or the lessee or joint lessees of the whole thereof,
						or his, her or their agent in charge of the property.
(s) Tenant means the person, firm or
						corporation in actual possession of the premises.