N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 12 §§ 8-2.1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 53, December 31, 2024

Section 8-2.1 - Definitions

(a) Approved shall mean approved by the Industrial Commissioner.

(b) Existing installations shall mean installations made before March 1, 1923.

(c) Future installations; installations hereafter shall mean installations after March 1, 1923.

(d) Hand power elevator shall mean a raising and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction, operated by hand or gravity, the floor area of which exceeds nine square feet in a horizontal section and four feet in height.

(e) Hand power passenger elevator shall mean an elevator on which passengers or employees are permitted to ride.

(f) Hand power freight elevator shall mean an elevator operated by hand or gravity used for carrying freight on which only the operator and the employees necessary for loading and unloading shall be permitted to ride.

(g) Hand power platform elevator shall mean a freight elevator, the platform of which is suspended by chains or cables from its four corners and is without car crossheads and safeties.

(h) Hand power sidewalk elevator shall mean a hand power elevator the travel of which is from a point below sidewalk level to the sidewalk level or to a height not to exceed wagon or freight car loading level.

(i) Hand power dumbwaiter shall mean a raising or lowering mechanism operated by hand and equipped with a car or platform, the dimensions of which do not exceed nine square feet in a horizontal section and four feet in height.

(j) Hand hoist shall mean all mechanisms, apparatus and equipment, operated by hand and used for raising or lowering freight (without platform or car) by means of a sling or hook in a hoistway.

(k) Hoistway shall mean any shaft, well-hole, hatchway or other vertical opening or space, unenclosed, partly or wholly enclosed, in which the elevator car or dumbwaiter travels or in which material is raised or lowered by means of a sling or hook.

(l) Landing shall mean that portion of a floor, balcony or platform used to receive or discharge passengers or freight.

(m) Travel shall mean the vertical distance traveled by an elevator, dumbwaiter or hoist from the lowest to the highest landing.

(n) Sliding door or gate shall mean a door or gate sliding in a vertical or horizontal direction.

(o) Self-closing door or gate shall mean a door or gate which is opened manually and which closes automatically through the action of the car as it leaves the landing.

(p) Full automatic door or gate shall mean a door or gate which is opened automatically by the action of the elevator car approaching any landing and closed automatically through the action of the car as it leaves or passes any landing.

(q) Fire door means a door so constructed and of such material as specified in section 8-2.18.

(r) Owner means the owner or owners of the freehold of the premises, or the lessee or joint lessees of the whole thereof, or his, her or their agent in charge of the property.

(s) Tenant means the person, firm or corporation in actual possession of the premises.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 12 §§ 8-2.1