2025 California Code
Labor Code - LAB
DIVISION 5 - SAFETY IN EMPLOYMENT
PART 3 - SAFETY ON BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 2 - Elevators, Escalators, Platform and Stairway Chair Lifts, Dumbwaiters, Moving Walks, Automated People Movers, and Other Conveyances
Section 7321.

Universal Citation:
CA Labor Code § 7321 (2025)
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7321. (a) The division may assess a civil penalty not to exceed seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) against any person owning or having custody, management, or control of the operation of a conveyance, who operates or permits the operation of the conveyance in a condition that is dangerous to the life or safety of any person, or who operates or permits the operation of the conveyance in violation of an order prohibiting use issued pursuant to Section 7301, 7305, or 7314.

(b) The division shall issue an order prohibiting use and may assess a civil penalty not to exceed seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) against any person who constructs, installs, or materially alters a conveyance without a permit issued pursuant to Section 7301.1 that is dangerous to the life or safety of any person.

(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1149, Sec. 36. Effective January 1, 2003.)

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