2022 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 198B - Housing, buildings, and construction - building code 198B.400 Definitions for KRS 198B.400 to 198B.540.
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198B.400 Definitions for KRS 198B.400 to 198B.540.
As used in KRS 198B.400 to 198B.540, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Elevator" means all the machinery, construction, apparatus, and equipment
used in raising and lowering a car, cage, or platform vertically between
permanent rails or guides, and includes all elevators, power dumbwaiters,
escalators, gravity elevators, and other lifting or lowering apparatus
permanently installed between rails or guides, but does not include hand
operated dumbwaiters, manlifts of the platform type with a platform area not
exceeding nine hundred square inches, construction hoists, or other similar
temporary lifting or lowering apparatus;
(2) "Passenger elevator" means an elevator that is designed to carry persons to its
contract capacity;
(3) "Freight elevator" means an elevator used for carrying freight and on which
only the operator, by the permission of the employer, is allowed to ride;
(4) "General inspector" means a state inspector examined and hired to inspect
elevators for the department;
(5) "Special inspector" means an inspector examined and certified by the
department to inspect elevators in the state;
(6) "Inspector" means either a general or special inspector;
(7) "Department" means the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction;
(8) "Certificate of operation" means a certificate issued by the department
authorizing the operation of an elevator which shall be conspicuously posted
on the elevator at all times;
(9) "Escalator" means a moving stairway consisting of steps attached to a
continuously circulating belt that is used to move persons from one (1) level to
another;
(10) "Moving sidewalk" means horizontal flat panels attached to a continuously
circulating belt used to move people;
(11) "Fixed guideway system" means any nonrail system, funicular, or automated
people mover, either air-suspended or wheeled, that is not regulated by the
Federal Transit Administration;
(12) "Mine elevator" means an elevator permanently installed in a mine shaft to
provide vertical transportation of mine personnel, their tools, equipment, and
mine supplies;
(13) "Stage elevator" means a section of a stage arranged to be raised and lowered
above and below the stage in a vertical direction;
(14) "Orchestra elevator" means a platform used for raising and lowering musicians
in an orchestra in a vertical direction;
(15) "Organ console elevator" means a mechanism used for raising and lowering an
organ console, including the organist, in a vertical direction;
(16) "Material lift" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car
that moves within a guide system installed at an angle of greater than seventy
(70) degrees from the horizontal, serving two (2) or more landings, for the
purpose of transporting materials that are manually or automatically loaded or
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unloaded. A person shall not ride on a material lift;
"Elevator contractor" means any sole proprietor, partnership, or corporation
possessing an elevator contractor license issued by the department and who is
engaged in the business of erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing,
repairing, or maintaining elevators or fixed guideway systems;
"Elevator mechanic" means any person who:
(a) Possesses an elevator mechanic license issued by the department;
(b) Is employed by an elevator contractor; and
(c) Is engaged in erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing,
repairing, or maintaining elevators or fixed guideway systems;
"Elevator helper" or "elevator apprentice" means any person who works under
the general supervision of a licensed elevator mechanic. An elevator helper or
elevator apprentice is not subject to licensure;
"Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Housing,
Buildings and Construction;
"Direct and immediate supervision" means that the licensed supervising
authority is on site. The supervisor is not required to have actual or direct sight
of the person being directly supervised;
"General supervision" means that the supervising authority oversees the work
performed overall but is not required to be on-site at all times during work
relating to elevators or fixed guideway systems;
"Accessibility and residential elevator mechanic" means any person who:
(a) Possesses an accessibility and residential elevator mechanic license
issued by the department;
(b) Is employed by an elevator contractor; and
(c) Is engaged in erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing,
repairing, or maintaining accessibility lifts and private residential
elevators;
"Accessibility lift" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism, that moves within
a guide system, serving two (2) or more landings, for the purpose of
transporting a person; and
"Private residential elevator" means a passenger elevator installed within a
structure subject to the Kentucky Residential Code as established in 815 KAR
7:125, but shall not be shared by units if installed in a multifamily dwelling.
Effective:June 29, 2017
History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 169, sec. 17, effective June 29, 2017. -Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 31, sec. 1, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended
2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 261, effective July 15, 2010; and ch. 116, sec. 19,
effective July 1, 2011. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 157, sec. 1, effective July
12, 2006. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 295, sec. 85, effective July 15, 1980. -Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 232, sec. 3; and ch. 299, sec. 77. -- Created 1974
Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 1.
Formerly codified as KRS 336.510.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/2011). 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 116, sec.
39, provides that "KRS 198B.400 to 198B.540 shall be known and may be cited
as the Kentucky Elevator Safety Act."
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/2011). References to the "Office of
Housing, Buildings and Construction" and the "executive director" of housing,
buildings and construction in this section, as amended by 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 116,
sec. 19, have been changed in codification to the "Department of Housing,
Buildings and Construction" and the "commissioner" of housing, buildings and
construction, respectively, to reflect the reorganization of certain parts of the
Executive Branch, as set forth in Executive Order 2009-535 and confirmed by
the General Assembly in 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24. These changes were made by
the Reviser of Statutes pursuant to 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1938.
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