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Part 2 Permits, Plan Checks, Fees, Inspections
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- The Department shall cause to be inspected and tested once every year all elevator equipment or related devices governed by this Code.
- The Department shall have its representative present to witness all tests made on elevator safety devices, governors and other safety equipment. Every such device shall be stamped with the proper identification and date before the Department may approve such device for use.
- The Department shall charge and collect a fee for each periodic inspection made by the Department as follows:
Private residence elevator.....$58.00
Dumbwaiter.....$71.00
(with automatic transfer).....$123.00
Sidewalk elevator.....$162.00
Hand elevator.....$58.00
Escalator and Moving Walk.....$162.00
Inclined Elevator.....$162.00
Hydraulic Elevator - Direct Plunger and Cabled.....$162.00
Cabled elevator:
10 landings or under.....$214.00
11 landings but under 20 landings.....$286.00
21 landings and over.....$357.00
Fire or Emergency Operation.....$84.00
Seismic device operation.....$84.00
Manlift.....$156.00
Vertical Platform (wheelchair) Lift.....$71.00
Inclined Platform (wheelchair) Lift.....$71.00
Stairway Chair lift.....$71.00
Material Lift with Automatic Transfer Device.....$214.00
Vertical and Inclined Reciprocating Conveyor.....$214.00
Rack and Pinion Elevator.....$214.00
Special Purpose Personnel Elevator.....$214.00
Automated Guided Vehicles on Guide Ways.....$143.00 per hour
Conveyance used for Construction.....$143.00 per hour
- The periodic inspection fees for any conveyance not listed in Subsection (c), above, that is required to be inspected pursuant to this section, shall be based on similar devices as determined by LAMC Section 92.0202.
Whenever special enforcement procedures are required to obtain compliance with properly executed Department notices or orders, a fee, as specified in LAMC Section 98.0407, shall be assessed.
Whenever any work for which a permit is required under the provisions of this Code has been commenced without the authorization of such permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for such work. In addition to the permit fee, an investigation fee shall be collected under LAMC Section 98.0402.
No permit shall be issued when an investigation fee is due until such fee has been paid.
The payment of the investigation fee shall not exempt any person from compliance with the provisions of this Code nor from any penalty prescribed by law.
No permit shall be issued when an investigation fee is due until such fee has been paid.
The payment of the investigation fee shall not exempt any person from compliance with the provisions of this Code nor from any penalty prescribed by law.
- No person shall install, construct or reconstruct any device regulated by this Code without first obtaining a permit from the Department.
- No person shall perform any work in or on any existing elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, moving walk, inclined elevator, manlift, private residential elevator, private residential inclined elevator, private residential inclined stairway chairlift, private residential wheelchair lift, reciprocating conveyor, wheelchair lift and inclined stairway chair lift and related devices regulated by this Code so as to change its type, design or purpose to a different type, design or purpose without first obtaining a permit from the Department.
- The Department shall, before issuance of a Certificate of Inspection, charge and collect a fee of $26.00 for each installation permit.
The fees specified in this subsection shall be increased by 12.5% for all construction or work required to comply with Title 24, California Administrative Code, Section 1-110, et seq., the state's handicapped access and adaptability requirements. - Upon completion of any of the work enumerated in this section for which an installation permit has been issued, the Department shall inspect the work and collect a fee of $143.00 for each hour or portion of an hour for each acceptance inspection and issue a Certificate of Inspection, if and when the work is found to comply with the requirements of this Code.
The fees specified in this section shall be increased by 12.5% for all construction or work required to comply with the State's disabled access and adaptability requirements in Title 24, of the California Code of Regulations. - Application for all permits shall be made upon forms provided by the Department.
- The fee for field consultations shall be $143.00 per hour or any fraction of an hour.
- Before formally accepting a set of plans and specifications for checking, the Department shall collect a plan check fee.
- Plan checking fees shall be as follows:
Dumbwaiter, each.....$100.00If plan check time exceeds 2 hours, the Department will collect a plan check fee as specified in LAMC Section 98.0415(e).
Sidewalk elevators, each.....$100.00
Private residential elevator, each.....$100.00
Escalators and moving walks, each.....$158.00
Hydraulic elevator-Direct Plunger, each.....$129.00
Hydraulic Elevator-Cabled, each.....$432.00
Cabled elevators, each.....$432.00
Inclined elevator, each.....$432.00
Vertical Platform (Wheelchair) Lift, each.....$100.00
Inclined Platform (Wheelchair) Lift, each.....$100.00
Stairway Chair Lift, each.....$100.00
Material Lift, each.....$129.00
Reciprocating Conveyer, each.....$129.00
Rack and Pinion Elevator, each.....$432.00
Conveyances not covered in this list.....$208.00/unit.
Modernizations and Alterations.....$208.00.
If plan check time exceeds 2 hours, the Department will collect a fee as specified in LAMC Section 98.0415(e). - The plan check fees required by the provisions of this section are in addition to the inspection fees required elsewhere in this Code. The total plan check fee shall be paid at the time plans are submitted for plan check.
- The Department may collect a plan check fee as specified in LAMC Section 98.0415(e) for the plan checking of any custom, specialized or non-standard elevator or related equipment, or for any elevator or related equipment not included in the above plan check schedule.
- Off-hour Plan Check. Upon request by an applicant and accepted by the Department, an off-hour plan check fee per LAMC Section 98.0422 may be collected.
The Department may, at its discretion, make emergency inspections at other than normal working hours, upon the request of a permittee, provided that additional fees are paid as specified in LAMC Section 98.0406.
- No person shall cause or permit any repairs, replacements, alterations, or modifications to any elevator or equipment regulated by this Code unless a permit has first been obtained from the Department.
For the purposes of this section, the term "alteration" shall include any work which entails the installation or replacement of any of the mechanical devices or apparatus specified in Subsection (d) or Notes A, B, C of this section and any alterations, repairs and replacements listed in the California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Section 3000(h). - The Department shall charge and collect the sum of $26.00 for each inspection permit to do any work and the sum of $143.00 per hour or any portion of an hour for the inspection of the work specified in Notes A, B, C of this section and alterations, repairs and replacements listed in the California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Sections 3000(h), 3141.0 and 3141.2, on each particular elevator, escalator or dumbwaiter including lifts or moving walks. No repair, replacement, alteration or modification permit shall allow any person to alter the type or design of the installation, and in the event that the work is of a nature that would alter the type, design or purpose of the installation, then a permit shall be obtained pursuant to the provisions of LAMC Section 92.0129.
- Application for all such permits shall be made upon forms provided by the Department.
- The fee for any repairs, replacements, alterations or modifications for which a permit is required, but for which no fee is provided here, shall be as provided under LAMC Sections 92.0129 or 92.0132(b).
- The fee for field consultations will be $143.00 per hour or any fraction thereof.
NOTE A: For the purpose of this section, the following shall be considered alterations for electric elevators:- Increase in rated load or speed
- Increase in dead weight of car
- Increase or decrease in travel
- Change in type of operation or control (including modification of fire and emergency operation)
- Change in size or number of hoisting or counterweight ropes
- Change in size or type of guide rails
- Replacement of or change in type of car or counterweight safety
- Permissive use of freight elevators to transport employees
- Change in classification from freight to passenger service
- Change in power supply
- Replacement of an existing driving machine by a new driving machine
- Replacement of an existing controller by a new controller
- Replacement of an existing driving machine brake by a new brake
- Replacement of hoistway doors
- Addition or replacement of hoistway door locking devices or car door or gate electric contact
- Addition of hoistway access switches
- Addition of top-of-car operating devices
- Addition of hoistway door and/or car-door or gate operating devices
- Addition of rope equalizers
- Addition of auxiliary rope-fastening devices
- Addition of car-leveling or truck zoning devices
- Addition of roller guide shoes
- Replacement of elevator ropes
- Land Elevator
- Replacement of an existing control valve with a valve of a different type;
- Replacement and repair of existing relief and check valves;
- Replacement of existing supply piping and fittings;
- Replacement of existing tanks;
- Replacement of cylinder and/or plunger with a cylinder or plunger of different material, size or design;
- Increase of working pressure;
- Earthquake restraints.
- Each periodic inspection shall be entitled to a maximum of two inspection trips.
- A fee as specified in LAMC Section 98.0412(b) shall be paid for each additional inspection trip in excess of the two trips allowed in Subsection (a) of this section.
- The fees charged under this section are in addition to any other fees shown in this division, and the payment of the fees required by this section shall not exempt any person from compliance with other provisions of the Code, nor from any penalty prescribed by law.
All elevator equipment, including controls, doors, interlocks, machinery, governor, safety devices, switches and any other devices designed for the operation of the equipment governed by this Code shall be approved by the Superintendent of Building before they may be in stalled or used. The Superintendent of Building shall have the authority to establish rules and regulations in connection therewith.