PRINTER'S NO. 1331
No. 1107 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY GREENWOOD, WENGER, AFFLERBACH AND LEMMOND,
JUNE 26, 1989
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JUNE 26, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 2, 1929 (P.L.1518, No.452), entitled, as
2 reenacted and amended, "An act regulating the construction,
3 equipment, maintenance, operation and inspection of
4 elevators; granting certain authority to and imposing certain
5 duties upon the Department of Labor and Industry; providing
6 fees for inspection of elevators, certificates of operation,
7 and approval of plans; providing penalties for violations of
8 this act; and repealing all acts or parts of acts
9 inconsistent with this act," deleting certain loading dock
10 adjustment equipment from the act.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. The definition of "elevator" in section 1 of the
14 act of May 2, 1929 (P.L.1518, No.452), referred to as the
15 Elevator Regulation Law, reenacted and amended April 8, 1937
16 (P.L.277, No.69), and amended June 23, 1972 (P.L.485, No.156),
17 is amended to read:
18 Section 1. Definitions.--Be it enacted, &c., That, as used
19 in this act, * * *
20 "Elevator" shall mean all the machinery and equipment used in
21 raising and lowering personnel, material, equipment or other
1 goods or cargo by means of a car, cage or platform vertically
2 between permanent rails or guides, and shall also include all
3 elevators, dumb-waiters, escalators, gravity elevators, inclined
4 passenger lifts, hoists, except temporary construction elevators
5 approved and meeting the provisions of sections 3 and 7 of this
6 act, and other lifting or lowering apparatus, except elevators,
7 hoists and lifting or lowering apparatus used in raising and
8 lowering a car, cage or platform in the coal mines and on slopes
9 used in open-pit coal mining in this Commonwealth, and in the
10 breakers, washeries and cleaning plants connected therewith and
11 which are under the jurisdiction of the Department of
12 Environmental Resources and the mine inspectors, and shall not
13 include elevators, hoists and lifting apparatus used on farms,
14 and except elevators, hoists and lifting or lowering apparatus
15 used in raising and lowering a car, cage or platform in any ore
16 mine. The term shall not include truck loading dock adjustment
17 equipment, commonly described as scissor lifts and truck
18 levelers that have a maximum lift of sixty inches and are used
19 to load and unload trucks.
20 * * *
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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