North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 13 - LABOR › Chapter 15 - ELEVATOR AND AMUSEMENT DEVICE DIVISION › Section .0200 - CODES AND STANDARDS › Section 15 .0202 - EXISTING INSTALLATIONS OF ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS, DUMBWAITERS AND MOVING WALKS, ALTERATIONS, REPAIRS AND EXCEPTIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a)
				Existing Installations. Existing installations of elevators, escalators,
				dumbwaiters, and moving walks shall be maintained under the departmental
				standards (if any) in effect at the time of their installation. Existing
				installations shall also meet the following standards, whether or not there
				were departmental standards in effect at the time of their installation:
(1) Electrically-powered elevator driving
				machines shall be equipped with a friction brake applied by a spring or springs
				or by gravity and released electrically.
(2) The car of every elevator suspended by
				wire ropes shall be provided with one or more safety devices. The safeties
				shall be attached to the car frame and one safety shall be located within or
				below the lowest members of the car frame (safety plank). All safeties shall be
				designed and installed in accordance with Section 2.17 of the A17.1 - American
				National Standard Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators.
(3) Operating devices for
				electrically-powered or electrically-controlled elevators shall be of the
				enclosed electric type. Rope or rod operating devices activated directly by
				hand, or rope operating devices activated by wheels, levers or cranks shall not
				be used.
(4) Elevator hoistways
				shall be enclosed throughout their height and all hoistway landing openings
				shall be protected with doors or gates. Hoistway enclosures shall be
				constructed to have a fire resistive rating of not less than one
				hour.
(5) Hoistway enclosure doors
				or gates shall be equipped with electric interlocks.
(6) Each elevator car shall be permanently
				enclosed on all sides and the top, except the sides for entrance and exit. Car
				side enclosures shall be of such strength and so designed and installed that
				when subjected to a pressure of 75 pounds applied horizontally at any point on
				the walls of the enclosure, the deflection will not exceed one inch.
(7) Car top enclosures shall be so designed
				and installed as to be capable of sustaining a load of not less than 100 pounds
				at any one point.
(8) An emergency
				exit with a cover shall be provided in the top of all elevator cars. The exit
				opening shall have an area of not less than 400 square inches and shall not
				measure less than 16 inches on any side. The exit shall be so located as to
				provide a clear unobstructed passage through it. The exit cover shall open
				outward and be hinged or otherwise attached to the car top and arranged to be
				opened from the top of the car only.
(9) A door or gate shall be provided at each
				entrance to the car.
(10) Doors
				shall be of the horizontally or vertically sliding type. Gates shall be of the
				vertically sliding or horizontally sliding collapsible type located not more
				than 1-3/4 inches from the car sill. Gates shall extend from a point not less
				than one inch above the car floor to not less than six feet above the car
				floor.
(11) Vertically sliding
				gates when in the fully opened position shall provide an entrance of not less
				than six feet in height. Such gates shall be provided with pull straps to
				facilitate closing of the gate.
(12) Each car door shall be equipped with a
				car door or gate electric contact so located as to be inaccessible from inside
				the car door and shall stop the car when the gate is opened a maximum of two
				inches.
The completion of any of the items in Subparagraphs (a)(1)
				  through (12) of this Rule that increases the gross load of the elevator shall
				  not reduce the safety factor of the driving machine below that required by Rule
				  2.24.3 of the A17.1 - American National Standard Safety Code for Elevators and
				  Escalators.