Section SPS 318.1701 - Scope, application, and definitions(1) Substitute the following informational notes for the requirements in ASME A17.1 section 1.1: Note: See sections SPS 318.1002 and 318.1003 for scope and application requirements.
Note: See ASME A18.1 and subchapter V for requirements relating to vertical and inclined platform lifts, and stairway chairlifts serving public buildings and places of employment.
(2) Substitute the following definitions for the corresponding definitions specified in ASME A17.1 section 1.3: (a) "Authority having jurisdiction" means the department of safety and professional services, except as designated under s. SPS 318.1012.(b) "Rated speed, down" means all of the following:1. Prior to passing an acceptance inspection, the speed at which the car, platform, or chair of an electric elevator, dumbwaiter, material lift, vertical platform lift, inclined platform lift, or stairway chairlift is designed to operate in the down direction with rated load.2. Upon acceptance inspection, the actual speed at which the car, platform, or chair of an electric elevator, dumbwaiter, material lift, vertical platform lift, inclined platform lift, or stairway chairlift operates in the down direction with rated load. Note: "Rated speed, down" applies to components where "rated speed" is used to describe the speed in the down direction for determining performance criteria for that code section. For the actual downspeed of a hydraulic elevator, dumbwaiter, or material lift, see the definition for "operating speed in the down direction."
(c) "Rated speed, up" means all of the following:1. Prior to passing an acceptance inspection, the speed which the car, platform, or chair of an elevator, dumbwaiter, material lift, vertical platform lift, inclined platform lift, or stairway chairlift is designed to operate in the up direction with rated load.2. Upon acceptance inspection, the actual speed at which the car, platform, or chair of an elevator, dumbwaiter, material lift, vertical platform lift, inclined platform lift, or stairway chairlift operates in the up direction with rated load. Note: "Rated speed, up" applies to components where "rated speed" is used to describe the speed in the up direction for determining performance criteria for that code section.
(3) This is a department informational note to be used under ASME A17.1 section 1.3:Wis. Admin. Code Department of Safety and Professional Services SPS 318.1701
CR 14-020: cr. Register August 2014 No. 704, eff. 9-1-14.Amended by, CR 19-118: renum. (2) to (2) (intro.) and am., cr. (2) (a) to (c), am. (3) Register May 2020 No. 773, eff. 6/1/2020See subsections SPS 318.1004(8) and (10) (ar) in subchapter I for definitions of "building code" and "elevator" because under section SPS 318.1003(2) (a) those definitions supersede the corresponding definitions in ASME A17.1 section 1.3.