2019 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 198B - Housing, buildings, and construction - building code 198B.510 Certificates of operation -- Renewal -- Elevator or fixed guideway system installations -- Certification of compliance -- State inspectors.
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198B.510 Certificates of operation -- Renewal -- Elevator or fixed guideway system
installations -- Certification of compliance -- State inspectors.
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No certificate of operation for any passenger elevator or fixed guideway system
shall be issued until the elevator or fixed guideway system has been inspected and
the inspection report filed with the department. The certificate of operation, when
issued, shall bear the date of inspection, and shall be renewed as of the date of the
subsequent inspection, provided the inspection is made at least one (1) year after the
issuance of this certificate. If the inspection is made during the year the certificate is
in force, the renewal date shall be one (1) year from the date of the certificate being
renewed and the renewal certificate shall show the date of inspection.
All new elevator or fixed guideway system installations shall be performed by a
licensed elevator contractor. Subsequent to installation, the elevator contractor shall
certify compliance with the applicable sections of KRS 198B.400 to 198B.540. The
licensed elevator contractor shall complete and submit the initial registration for
each new installation.
(a) A state inspector shall inspect, in accordance with KRS 198B.400 to
198B.540, all newly installed elevators, platform lifts, and stairway chairlifts
in private residences.
(b) A state inspector may inspect, in accordance with KRS 198B.400 to
198B.540, any existing installed elevators, platform lifts, and stairway
chairlifts in private residences at the request of the owner of the private
residence.
Effective: July 1, 2011
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 269, effective July 15, 2010; and ch. 116,
sec. 27, effective July 1, 2011. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 157, sec. 10, effective
July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 232, sec. 7; and ch. 299, sec. 82. -Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 14.
Formerly codified as KRS 336.640.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/2011). This section was amended by 2010
Ky. Acts chs. 24 and 116, which do not appear to be in conflict and have been
codified together.
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