{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-95-110.3","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-110.3","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(a)\tThe term \"Commissioner\" shall mean the North Carolina Commissioner of Labor or the Commissioner's authorized representative.\n(b)\tThe term \"Director\" shall mean the Director of the Elevator and Amusement Device Bureau of the North Carolina Department of Labor.\n(c)\tThe term \"dumbwaiter\" shall mean a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction, the floor area of which does not exceed nine square feet, the total inside height of which, whether or not provided with fixed or removable shelves, does not exceed four feet, the capacity of which does not exceed 500 pounds, and which is used exclusively for carrying materials.\n(d)\tThe term \"elevator\" shall mean a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides, and which serves two or more floors of a building or structure.\n(e)\tThe term \"escalator\" shall mean a power driven, inclined continuous stairway used for raising and lowering passengers.\n(f)\tThe term \"inclined stairway chair lift\" shall mean a hoisting and lowering mechanism with one or more chairs or a platform for one or more wheelchairs installed on a stairway for the purpose of transporting a physically disabled person.\n(g)\tThe term \"inclined or vertical wheelchair lift\" shall mean a powered platform-elevating device used to transport a physically disabled person in a wheelchair.\n(h)\tThe term \"manlift\" shall mean platforms or brackets and accompanying handholds, mounted on, or attached to, an endless belt operating vertically in one direction only and being supported by, and driven through, pulleys at the top and bottom and intended primarily for the conveyance of persons.\n(i)\tThe term \"moving walk\" shall mean a type of passenger carrying device on which passengers stand or walk and in which the passenger carrying surface remains parallel to its direction of motion and is uninterrupted.\n(j)\tThe term \"operator\" shall mean any person having direct control over the operation of any covered device or equipment.\n(k)\tThe term \"owner\" shall mean any person or authorized agent of such person who owns a device or equipment subject to regulation under this Article, or in the event the device or equipment is leased, the lessee. The term \"owner\" also shall include the State of North Carolina or any political subdivision thereof or any unit of local government.\n(l)\tThe term \"person\" shall mean any individual, association, partnership, firm, corporation, private organization, or the State of North Carolina or any political subdivision thereof or any unit of local government.\n(m)\tThe term \"personnel hoist\" shall mean an elevator installed inside or outside of buildings during construction, alteration or demolition and used primarily to raise and lower workers and other persons connected with or related to the building project.\n(n)\tThe term \"special equipment\" shall mean any permanently or semi-permanently located device, manually or power-operated, used for moving or lifting person or persons and materials but not considered as an elevator, escalator, dumbwaiter, moving walk, personnel hoist, inclined stairway chair lift, inclined or vertical wheelchair lift, or manlift. Special equipment shall include, but not be limited to, manhoists, lift bridges, elevators which are used only for handling building materials and workmen during construction, and stage and orchestra lifts. (1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 990, s. 1; 2025-28, s. 1.6(b).)","path":["Chapter 95. Department of Labor and Labor Regulations.","Article 14A. Elevator Safety Act of North Carolina."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_95/GS_95-110.3.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:14:02Z","sha256":"4863afd8ef0856bea413f32dd84c872574955ff7cb77e9304d2837bb97434751","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-95-110.2","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-95-110.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}