KRS 198B.400: Definitions for KRS 198B.400 to 198B.540.

As used in KRS 198B.400 to 198B.540, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Elevator" means all the machinery, construction, apparatus, and equipment

used in raising and lowering a car, cage, or platform vertically between

permanent rails or guides, and includes all elevators, power dumbwaiters,

escalators, gravity elevators, and other lifting or lowering apparatus

permanently installed between rails or guides, but does not include hand

operated dumbwaiters, manlifts of the platform type with a platform area not

exceeding nine hundred square inches, construction hoists, or other similar

temporary lifting or lowering apparatus;

(2) "Passenger elevator" means an elevator that is designed to carry persons to its

contract capacity;

(3) "Freight elevator" means an elevator used for carrying freight and on which

only the operator, by the permission of the employer, is allowed to ride;

(4) "General inspector" means a state inspector examined and hired to inspect

elevators for the department;

(5) "Special inspector" means an inspector examined and certified by the

department to inspect elevators in the state;

(6) "Inspector" means either a general or special inspector;

(7) "Department" means the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction;

(8) "Certificate of operation" means a certificate issued by the department

authorizing the operation of an elevator which shall be conspicuously posted

on the elevator at all times;

(9) "Escalator" means a moving stairway consisting of steps attached to a

continuously circulating belt that is used to move persons from one (1) level to

another;

(10) "Moving sidewalk" means horizontal flat panels attached to a continuously

circulating belt used to move people;

(11) "Fixed guideway system" means any nonrail system, funicular, or automated

people mover, either air-suspended or wheeled, that is not regulated by the

Federal Transit Administration;

(12) "Mine elevator" means an elevator permanently installed in a mine shaft to

provide vertical transportation of mine personnel, their tools, equipment, and

mine supplies;

(13) "Stage elevator" means a section of a stage arranged to be raised and lowered

above and below the stage in a vertical direction;

(14) "Orchestra elevator" means a platform used for raising and lowering musicians

in an orchestra in a vertical direction;

(15) "Organ console elevator" means a mechanism used for raising and lowering an

organ console, including the organist, in a vertical direction;

(16) "Material lift" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car

that moves within a guide system installed at an angle of greater than seventy

(70) degrees from the horizontal, serving two (2) or more landings, for the

purpose of transporting materials that are manually or automatically loaded or

unloaded. A person shall not ride on a material lift;

(17) "Elevator contractor" means any sole proprietor, partnership, or corporation

possessing an elevator contractor license issued by the department and who is

engaged in the business of erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing,

repairing, or maintaining elevators or fixed guideway systems;

(18) "Elevator mechanic" means any person who:

(a) Possesses an elevator mechanic license issued by the department;

(b) Is employed by an elevator contractor; and

(c) Is engaged in erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing,

repairing, or maintaining elevators or fixed guideway systems;

(19) "Elevator helper" or "elevator apprentice" means any person who works under

the general supervision of a licensed elevator mechanic. An elevator helper or

elevator apprentice is not subject to licensure;

(20) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Housing,

Buildings and Construction;

(21) "Direct and immediate supervision" means that the licensed supervising

authority is on site. The supervisor is not required to have actual or direct sight

of the person being directly supervised;

(22) "General supervision" means that the supervising authority oversees the work

performed overall but is not required to be on-site at all times during work

relating to elevators or fixed guideway systems;

(23) "Accessibility and residential elevator mechanic" means any person who:

(a) Possesses an accessibility and residential elevator mechanic license

issued by the department;

(b) Is employed by an elevator contractor; and

(c) Is engaged in erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing,

repairing, or maintaining accessibility lifts and private residential

elevators;

(24) "Accessibility lift" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism, that moves within

a guide system, serving two (2) or more landings, for the purpose of

transporting a person; and

(25) "Private residential elevator" means a passenger elevator installed within a

structure subject to the Kentucky Residential Code as established in 815 KAR

7:125, but shall not be shared by units if installed in a multifamily dwelling.