2009 Iowa Code
Title 3 - Public Services and Regulation
Subtitle 2 - Employment Services
CHAPTER 89A - ELEVATORS
89A.1 - DEFINITIONS.

        89A.1  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter, except as otherwise expressly provided:
         1.  "Alteration" means any change made to an existing
      conveyance, other than the repair or replacement of damaged, worn, or
      broken parts necessary for normal maintenance.
         2.  "Commissioner" means the labor commissioner, appointed
      pursuant to section 91.2, or the labor commissioner's designee.
         3.  "Conveyance" means an elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator,
      moving walk, lift, or inclined or vertical wheelchair lift subject to
      regulation under this chapter, and includes hoistways, rails, guides,
      and all other related mechanical and electrical equipment.
         4.  "Division" means the division of labor services of the
      department of workforce development created under section 84A.1.
         5.  "Dormant conveyance" means a conveyance whose power feed
      lines have been disconnected from the mainline disconnect switch and
      is one of the following:
         a.  An electric elevator, material lift, or dumbwaiter whose
      suspension ropes have been removed, whose car and counterweight rest
      at the bottom of the hoistway, and whose hoistway doors have been
      permanently barricaded or sealed in the closed position on the
      hoistway side.
         b.  A hydraulic elevator, material lift, or dumbwaiter whose
      car rests at the bottom of the hoistway, whose pressure piping has
      been disassembled and a section removed from the premises; whose
      hoistway doors have been permanently barricaded or sealed in the
      closed position on the hoistway side; and, if provided, whose
      suspension ropes have been removed and the counterweights landed at
      the bottom of the hoistway.
         c.  An escalator or moving walk whose entrances have been
      permanently barricaded.
         d.  A rack and pinion or screw column elevator, whose motor
      has been removed, platform lowered to the bottom, and entrances
      barricaded.
         6.  "Dumbwaiter" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism
      equipped with a car which moves in guides in a substantially vertical
      direction, when the floor area does not exceed nine square feet, the
      total compartment height does not exceed four feet, the capacity does
      not exceed five hundred pounds, and which is used exclusively for
      carrying materials.
         7.  "Elevator" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism
      equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in a
      substantially vertical direction, and which serves two or more floors
      of a building or structure.  "Elevator" does not include a
      dumbwaiter, endless belt, conveyor, chain or bucket hoist,
      construction hoist, or other device used for the primary purpose of
      elevating or lowering building or other materials and not used as a
      means of conveyance for individuals, and does not include tiering,
      piling, feeding, or other machines or devices giving service within
      only one story.
         8.  "Escalator" means a power-driven, inclined, continuous
      stairway used for raising or lowering passengers.
         9.  "Freight elevator" means an elevator used for carrying
      freight and on which only the operator and persons necessary for
      unloading and loading the freight are permitted to ride.
         10.  "Inclined or vertical wheelchair lift" means a lift used
      to transport a wheelchair as specified in the American society of
      mechanical engineers safety standard for platform lifts and stairway
      chairlifts, A18.1.
         11.  "Inspector" means an inspector employed by the division
      for the purpose of administering this chapter.
         12.  "Lift" means a device consisting of a power-driven
      endless belt, provided with steps or platforms and handholds attached
      to it for the transportation of persons from floor to floor.
         13.  "Material lift elevator" means an elevator limited in use
      to the movement of materials.
         14.  "Moving walk" 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 in
      motion and is uninterrupted.
         15.  "New installation" means a conveyance the construction or
      relocation of which is begun, or for which an application for a new
      installation permit is filed, on or after the effective date of rules
      relating to those permits adopted by the commissioner under authority
      of this chapter.  All other installations are existing installations.

         16.  "Owner" means the owner of a conveyance, unless the
      conveyance is a new installation or is undergoing major alterations,
      in which case the owner shall be considered the person responsible
      for the installation or alteration of the conveyance until the
      conveyance has passed final inspection by the division.
         17.  "Passenger elevator" means an elevator that is used to
      carry persons other than the operator and persons necessary for
      loading and unloading.
         18.  "Safety board" means the elevator safety board created in
      section 89A.13.
         19.  "Special inspector" means an inspector commissioned by
      the labor commissioner, and not employed by the division.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 104.1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         84 Acts, ch 1094, § 1; 86 Acts, ch 1157, § 1, 2; 86 Acts, ch 1245,
      § 937
         C87, § 89A.1
         88 Acts, ch 1025, §3; 96 Acts, ch 1186, § 23; 99 Acts, ch 68, §4;
      2000 Acts, ch 1097, §2; 2004 Acts, ch 1107, §11, 12, 30; 2007 Acts,
      ch 16, §2; 2008 Acts, ch 1029, §1