Bill Text: HI SB2401 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Elevator Inspections; Third-Party Inspectors
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - (S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. [SB2401 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2401-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ELEVATOR INSPECTIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. According to the report, "Elevator Equipment Inspection Standards Affecting Public Safety" (Dynamic Elevator Systems, LLC, August 25, 2011), there is a backlog of three to seven years of inspections that pose serious public safety problems. Of the State's six thousand seven hundred elevators and related systems, seventy-eight per cent have expired operating permits. The backlog is caused in significant part by the cutback in elevator inspector positions due to the State's budget constraints. The legislature finds that qualified third-party elevator inspectors are needed to assist state employee elevator inspectors in making elevator safety inspections as required by law.
The legislature further finds that existing law allows only employees of the department of labor and industrial relations to qualify as elevator inspectors. A possible solution would be to allow qualified third-party elevator inspectors, in addition to state-employed inspectors, to conduct elevator inspections to alleviate the problem.
The purpose of this Act is to allow qualified third-party elevator inspectors to conduct elevator inspections in all incidents when state-employed inspectors are unable to do so.
SECTION 2. Section 397-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
"(c) All [safety] inspections [required
under this chapter] of elevators and kindred equipment required under
this chapter for the permit to operate under section 397-4 and continued
operation of elevators and kindred equipment shall be performed by [deputy]:
(1) Deputy
elevator inspectors of the department who are qualified elevator inspectors and
who are employed primarily for purposes of elevator and related inspection
work[.]; or
(2) Qualified third-party elevator inspectors, not employed by the State, whose services are procured by the department pursuant to chapter 103D to provide elevator and related inspection work in instances when a timely elevator inspection by deputy elevator inspectors of the department is not feasible; provided that the third-party elevator inspector meets the requirements under subsection (d).
The department may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 necessary to carry out the purposes of this section."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Elevator Inspections; Third-Party Inspectors
Description:
Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to use qualified third-party elevator inspectors when necessary.
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