§ 14-16-30. Additional inspections and tests.

A.

Car safeties, counterweight safeties where provided, overspeed governors and oil buffers of electric elevators and car safeties, counterweight safeties, where provided and overspeed governors of hydraulic elevators having roped-hydraulic driving machines, shall be tested, as required by Part IX, section 900, Rule 900.7d, of the Elevator Safety Code, once every five years following the date of the initial test required by section 14-16-27 for elevators having traction driving machines and once every two and one-half years following the date of the initial test required by such sections for elevators having drum type or roped-hydraulic drum machines. These tests shall be in lieu of one of the periodic tests of such devices required by Part IX, section 900, Rules 900.6h and 900.9i respectively, of the Elevator Safety Code.

B.

Hydraulic elevator pressure tanks and piston rods of roped-hydraulic elevators shall, in addition to the periodic inspections and tests required by Part IX, section 901, Rule 901.2, of the Elevator Safety Code, be cleaned, inspected and tested once every three years, following the date of the initial tests and inspection required by section 14-16-27, as required by Part IX, section 901, Rule 901.3d of the Elevator Safety Code.

C.

The inspections required by this section shall be made by an elevator inspector licensed by the city, who shall also, except as hereinafter provided, witness the tests. The tests required by this section shall be made by a person competent to perform such service, provided that where such licensed inspector is not available at the time the required tests are made, the person conducting such tests shall submit to the office of planning and development an affidavit, upon a form furnished by the division, certifying that the tests have been made and the results thereof.

D.

In addition to inspections specifically provided for in this article, the director of planning and development may designate a licensed inspector in the employ of the city to make such additional inspections as may be required to enforce the provisions of this chapter. No fee shall be charged for such inspection.

(Code 1967, § 49-50; Code 1985, § 46-56)