Code of Alabama - Title 25: Industrial Relations and Labor - Chapter 13 - Elevator Safety

• Section 25-13-1 Purpose
  (a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the safety of life and limb and to promote public safety awareness. The use of...
• Section 25-13-2 Definitions
  (a) As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ADMINISTRATOR. The Secretary of the Department of Labor or his...
• Section 25-13-3 Applicability
  (a) Unless otherwise provided herein, this chapter covers the design, construction, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the following equipment, its associated parts,...
• Section 25-13-4 License required
  (a) No person shall erect, construct, alter, replace, maintain, remove, or dismantle any conveyance contained within buildings or structures in the jurisdiction of this state...
• Section 25-13-5 Elevator Safety Review Board - Created; composition
  (a) There is created the Elevator Safety Review Board, herein referred to as the "board," consisting of 10 members, one of whom shall be the...
• Section 25-13-6 Elevator Safety Review Board - Powers and duties
  (a) The board may consult with engineering authorities and organizations concerned with standard safety codes, rules, and regulations governing the operation, maintenance, servicing, construction, alteration,...
• Section 25-13-7 Application for license
  (a) Elevator Contractor. Any sole proprietor, firm, or corporation wishing to engage in the business of elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, moving sidewalk, or other conveyance installation,...
• Section 25-13-8 Qualifications for mechanic license; issuance without examination
  (a) No license shall be granted to any person who has not proven his or her qualifications and abilities. Applicants for a mechanic license must...
• Section 25-13-9 Qualifications for inspector's license
  No inspector's license shall be granted to any person unless he or she demonstrates to the satisfaction of the administrator or other officer designated by...
• Section 25-13-10 Requirements for contractor's license
  No license shall be granted to any sole proprietor, firm, or corporation that has not demonstrated the requisite qualifications and abilities. Duly authorized applicants for...
• Section 25-13-11 Comity
  A license may be issued to a sole proprietor, firm, or corporation holding a valid license from a state having standards substantially equal to those...
• Section 25-13-12 Issuance of license; fees; emergency and temporary elevator mechanic licenses; renewal; continuing education
  (a) Upon approval of an application, the administrator may issue a license which shall be renewable biennially. The fee for such license and for any...
• Section 25-13-13 Suspension, revocation, etc., of license
  (a) A license issued pursuant to this chapter may be suspended, revoked, or subject to civil penalty by the administrator upon verification that any one...
• Section 25-13-14 Registration of conveyances
  Within six months after the date of the appointment of the board, the owner or lessee of every existing conveyance shall register with the board...
• Section 25-13-15 Installation, service, maintenance of conveyances
  It shall be the responsibility of individuals, firms, or corporations licensed by this chapter to ensure that installation and/or service and maintenance of elevators and...
• Section 25-13-16 Conveyance permit required
  (a) No conveyance covered by this chapter shall be erected, constructed, installed, or altered within buildings or structures within this jurisdiction unless a permit has...
• Section 25-13-17 Revocation of permit; extension of time
  (a) Permits may be revoked for the following reasons: (1) Where any false statements or misrepresentations were made as to the material facts in the...
• Section 25-13-18 Installation by licensee; certification of compliance; certificate of operation; inspection
  (a) All new conveyance installations shall be performed by a sole proprietor, firm, or corporation to which a license to install or service conveyances has...
• Section 25-13-19 Insurance policies
  (a) Elevator contractors shall submit to the administrator an insurance policy, or certified copy thereof, issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in...
• Section 25-13-20 Enforcement program; investigation
  (a) It shall be the duty of the administrator to develop an enforcement program which will ensure compliance with regulations and requirements referenced in this...
• Section 25-13-21 Liability under chapter
  This chapter shall not be construed to relieve or lessen the responsibility or liability of any person, firm, or corporation owning, operating, controlling, maintaining, erecting,...
• Section 25-13-22 Penalties
  Any owner or lessee who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not to...
• Section 25-13-23 Compliance with chapter
  The provisions of this chapter are not retroactive unless otherwise stated, and equipment shall be required to comply with the applicable code at the date...
• Section 25-13-24 Annual inspections required
  (a) It shall be the responsibility of the owners of all new and existing conveyances located in any building or structure to have the conveyances...
• Section 25-13-25 Relation to other laws, etc
  Whenever a provision in this chapter is found to be inconsistent with any provision of applicable state law, any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, or...

Last modified: May 3, 2021