March 8, 2011, Introduced by Senators PROOS, JONES, KOWALL, HANSEN, MEEKHOF, MOOLENAAR, GREEN, PAVLOV, BOOHER, WALKER, NOFS and BRANDENBURG and referred to the Committee on Economic Development.
A bill to amend 1967 PA 227, entitled
"An act to regulate the inspection, construction, installation,
alteration, maintenance, repair and operation of elevators and the
licensing of elevator contractors; to prescribe the functions of
the director of labor; to create, and prescribe the functions of,
the elevator safety board; to provide penalties for violations of
the act; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 6 (MCL 408.806).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 6. (1) An elevator shall be constructed, equipped,
maintained, repaired, and used with respect to the supporting
members, car or platform, hoistways, guides, cables, doors and
gates, safety stops and mechanisms, electrical apparatus and
wiring, mechanical apparatus, counterweights, and all other
appurtenances in accordance with the American standard safety code
for elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators and moving walks, A 17.1-
1965, and subsequent editions and amendments if adopted by rule of
the
board, and with rules made adopted by the board. In
case of
conflict
between the rules and the standard, the rules shall apply.
(2) A beach or residential lift for the intermittent use of
members of a homeowners group composed of not more than 20
residential dwellings may be constructed in compliance with the
standards applying to private residential lifts.