Current through January, 2025
(a) The department
shall inspect to ensure compliance with chapter
397, HRS, any activity related to the
erection, construction, alteration, demolition, or maintenance of buildings,
structure, bridges, highways, roadways, dams, tunnels, sewers, underground
buildings or structures, underground pipelines or ducts, and other construction
projects or facilities containing elevators or kindred equipment.
(b) Elevators and kindred equipment. The
following shall apply to inspections and tests:
(1) All permit renewal inspections and
witnessing of tests of elevators or kindred equipment as required under this
chapter shall be performed by qualified inspectors employed by the
department;
(2) Where notifications
of discrepancies, recommendations, or requirements are made, these notations
shall refer to the applicable code, rule, or standard;
(3) Elevator or kindred equipment regulated
under this part shall be inspected and tested in accordance with the schedule
in Exhibit C, titled "Inspection and Test Intervals (In Months)", dated January
1, 2017, which is made a part of this chapter and located at the end of this
chapter;
(A) Internal inspection of escalators
and moving walks shall be performed at intervals of thirty-six
months;
(B) Personnel hoists shall
be load tested at intervals of three months;
(C) The category 3 test shall be performed on
all holed and holeless hydraulic elevator systems. The interval may be extended
at the discretion of the department for those hydraulic elevator installations
such as holeless hydraulic elevators in which all components are readily
accessible for visual inspection; and
(D) The period between inspections may be
extended by the department for cause.
A written application by the owner must be received by
the department prior to the expiration date for review;
Any elevator or kindred equipment that is out of
service and not continuously maintained for a period exceeding one year or has
not been inspected in accordance with paragraph (3) shall be taken out of
service by the owner by complying with the following:
(A) Car and counterweight (if any) shall be
landed at the bottom of the hoistway and hoisting ropes shall be disconnected
at both ends. For hydraulic driven elevators and hydraulic driven kindred
equipment, the car shall be lowered to the bottom of the hoistway, oil line
disconnected with partial or total oil supply line removal, and oil removed
from the tank reservoir;
(B) All
electric power shall be removed by disconnected and removing the power feeders;
and
(C) All hoistway entrances or
escalator entrances and exits shall be permanently blocked or barricaded to
prevent inadvertent entry. The owner or the owner's agent shall submit a
certification that the unit has been properly taken out of service as indicated
in this paragraph, on a form provided by the department. Prior to placing the
elevator or kindred equipment back in service, the department shall be notified
and an inspection made; and
(4) While conducting tests and inspections
required by section
12-229-5.1 for
acceptance of new elevators for load testing of elevators, a positive means of
communication, such as a walkie-talkie system, between the various testing and
witnessing personnel shall be furnished by the elevator maintenance company
performing the test or inspection.
(c) Amusement rides. The following shall
apply to amusement rides:
The department shall inspect and witness load tests, in
accordance with ASTM-F24 and chapter
12-250 at least semi-annually, for all
amusement rides at a carnival, circus, fair, amusement park, or other public
venue, for protecting the safety of the public;
(1) After the initial inspection, each
amusement ride shall be inspected as often as necessary to ensure safe
operation but not less than twice annually at intervals of not less than five
months nor greater than seven months;
(2) If the department finds, upon inspection,
that an amusement ride is in a safe operating condition and meets with the
requirements of this chapter and chapter 12250, the department shall affix to
the ride in a prominent location a permit to operate bearing upon its face the
date of the inspection and the permit expiration date; and
(3) No ride shall be operated unless it has
affixed to it a current permit to operate.
