Full Text of SB1722 96th General Assembly
SB1722 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 SB1722
Introduced 2/19/2009, by Sen. M. Maggie Crotty SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Elevator Safety and Regulation Act. Provides that special purpose personnel elevators within the scope of section 17.1 of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code (ASME A17.1) and used only by authorized personnel are exempt from regulation under the Act. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning elevator regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Elevator Safety and Regulation Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| (225 ILCS 312/10)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2013)
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| Sec. 10. Applicability.
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| (a) This Act covers the construction, operation, | 10 |
| inspection,
testing,
maintenance, alteration, and repair of | 11 |
| the following equipment, its associated
parts, and
its | 12 |
| hoistways (except as modified by subsection (c) of this | 13 |
| Section):
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| (1) Hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a | 15 |
| car or platform,
which move between 2 or more landings. | 16 |
| This equipment includes, but is not
limited
to, the | 17 |
| following (also see ASME A17.1, ASME A17.3, and ASME | 18 |
| A18.1):
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| (A) Elevators.
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| (B) Platform lifts and stairway chair lifts.
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| (2) Power driven stairways and walkways for carrying | 22 |
| persons between
landings. This equipment includes, but is | 23 |
| not limited to, the following (also
see ASME A17.1 and ASME |
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| A17.3):
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| (A) Escalators.
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| (B) Moving walks.
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| (3) Hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a | 5 |
| car, which serves
2 or more landings and is restricted to | 6 |
| the carrying of material by its
limited
size or limited | 7 |
| access to the car. This equipment includes, but is not | 8 |
| limited
to, the
following (also see ASME A17.1 and ASME | 9 |
| A17.3):
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| (A) Dumbwaiters.
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| (B) Material lifts and dumbwaiters with automatic | 12 |
| transfer
devices.
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| (b) This Act covers the construction, operation, | 14 |
| inspection,
maintenance,
alteration, and repair of automatic | 15 |
| guided transit vehicles on guideways with
an
exclusive
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| right-of-way. This equipment includes, but is not limited to, | 17 |
| automated people
movers (also see ASCE 21).
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| (c) This Act does not apply to the following equipment:
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| (1) Material hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.5.
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| (2)
Manlifts within the scope of ASME A90.1.
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| (3) Mobile scaffolds, towers, and platforms within the | 22 |
| scope of ANSI A92.
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| (4) Powered platforms and equipment for exterior and | 24 |
| interior
maintenance within the scope of ANSI 120.1.
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| (5) Conveyors and related equipment within the scope of | 26 |
| ASME B20.1.
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| (6) Cranes, derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks, and slings
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| within the scope of ASME B30.
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| (7) Industrial trucks within the scope of ASME B56.
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| (8) Portable equipment, except for portable escalators | 5 |
| that are covered by ANSI A17.1.
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| (9) Tiering or piling machines used to move materials | 7 |
| to and from
storage located and operating entirely within | 8 |
| one story.
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| (10) Equipment for feeding or positioning materials at | 10 |
| machine tools,
printing presses, etc.
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| (11) Skip or furnace hoists.
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| (12) Wharf ramps.
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| (13) Railroad car lifts or dumpers.
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| (14) Line jacks, false cars, shafters, moving | 15 |
| platforms, and similar
equipment used for installing an | 16 |
| elevator by a contractor licensed in this
State.
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| (15) (Blank).
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| (16) Conveyances located in a private residence not | 19 |
| accessible to the public. | 20 |
| (17) Special purpose personnel elevators within the | 21 |
| scope of ASME A17.1 and used only by authorized personnel | 22 |
| (Blank) . | 23 |
| (d) This Act does not apply to a municipality with a | 24 |
| population over 500,000.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-698, eff. 11-22-05; 95-573, eff. 8-31-07.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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