2019 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 198B - Housing, buildings, and construction - building code 198B.540 Notice of defective machinery -- Sealing of dangerous passenger elevator or fixed guideway system.
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198B.540 Notice of defective machinery -- Sealing of dangerous passenger
elevator or fixed guideway system.
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If the department's inspector of elevators and fixed guideway systems or a
general inspector of elevators or fixed guideway systems finds that a
passenger elevator, fixed guideway system, or a part thereof does not afford
reasonable safety, the department or the general inspector shall post a notice
upon the elevator or fixed guideway system prohibiting further use of the
elevator or fixed guideway system until the changes or alterations set forth in
the notice have been made to the satisfaction of the department or the
inspector. The notice shall contain a statement that operators or passengers
are subject to injury by its continued use, a description of the alteration or other
change necessary to be made in order to secure safety of operation, date of
the notice, and name and signature of the department or inspector issuing the
notice.
If any inspector of elevators or fixed guideway systems finds a passenger
elevator or fixed guideway system to be so unsafe as can be reasonably
expected to offer imminent danger of death or physical injury, that unit shall be
sealed out of service, a hazard notice posted thereon, and the department shall
be notified immediately of the exact location and condition of the unit.
A passenger elevator or fixed guideway system, once sealed, shall not be
operated except for the purpose of effecting repairs and in the manner
prescribed by the department, until all defects are corrected and the unit has
been inspected and certified as safe by the department.
Sealing shall consist of rendering a passenger elevator unit or fixed guideway
system inoperable by disconnecting power or by placing a sealing device on
the operation switch and ordering additional measures to be effected by the
owner, such as erection of barricades, as may be required to prevent use of or
public access to the unit.
No seal, notice, or barricade placed on or around an elevator or fixed guideway
system in accordance with this chapter shall be removed, obstructed or in any
way altered without the written consent of the department.
Effective:June 29, 2017
History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 169, sec. 27, effective June 29, 2017. -Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 272, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 157, sec. 13, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1978 Ky.
Acts ch. 123, sec. 6, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch.
232, sec. 9; and ch. 299, sec. 85. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 18.
Formerly codified as KRS 336.680.
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