Florida Senate - 2016                             CS for SB 1602
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senator Galvano
       
       580-02678-16                                          20161602c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to elevators; creating s. 399.031,
    3         F.S.; providing a short title; providing clearance
    4         requirements for elevators installed in private
    5         residences; requiring certain doors and gates to
    6         withstand a specified amount of force; requiring
    7         certain doors to reject a sphere of a specified size
    8         under certain circumstances; requiring all such
    9         elevators to be equipped with a certain device;
   10         providing requirements for the device; providing
   11         applicability; providing an effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Section 399.031, Florida Statutes, is created to
   16  read:
   17         399.031 Clearance requirements between elevator doors for
   18  elevators inside a private residence.
   19         (1)This section may be cited as the “Maxwell Erik ‘Max’
   20  Grablin Act.”
   21         (2)For elevators installed in a private residence:
   22         (a)The distance between the hoistway face of the hoistway
   23  doors and the hoistway edge of the landing sill may not exceed
   24  3/4 inch for swinging doors and 2 1/4 inches for sliding doors.
   25         (b)1. Horizontal sliding car doors and gates shall be
   26  designed and installed to withstand a force of 75 pounds applied
   27  horizontally on an area 4 inches by 4 inches at right angles to
   28  and at any location on the car door without permanent
   29  deformation. The deflection may not exceed 3/4 inch and may not
   30  displace the door from its guides or tracks. The force must be
   31  applied while the door is in the fully closed position.
   32         2.Folding car doors shall be designed and installed to
   33  withstand a force of 75 pounds applied horizontally using a 4
   34  inch-diameter sphere at any location within the folds on the car
   35  door without permanent deformation. The deflection may not
   36  exceed 3/4 inch and may not displace the door from its guides or
   37  tracks. The force must be applied while the door is in the fully
   38  closed position.
   39         (c)The distance between the hoistway face of the landing
   40  door and the hoistway face of the car door or gate shall conform
   41  to one of the following:
   42         1. If a power-operated horizontally sliding hoistway and
   43  car doors are used, the measurement between the leading edge of
   44  the doors or sight guard, if provided, may not exceed 4 inches.
   45  If it is possible for a user to detach or disconnect either door
   46  from the operator and such detachment or disconnection allows
   47  the user to operate the door manually, the requirement in
   48  subparagraph 5. applies.
   49         2. If swinging hoistway doors and folding car doors are
   50  used and both doors are in the fully closed position, the space
   51  between the hoistway door and the folding door must reject a 4
   52  inch-diameter sphere at all points.
   53         3. If swinging hoistway doors and car gates are used, the
   54  space between the hoistway door and the car gate must reject a
   55  4-inch-diameter sphere at all points.
   56         4. If the car doors are powered and arranged so that they
   57  cannot be closed until after the hoistway door is closed, and
   58  the car doors automatically open when the car is at a landing
   59  and the hoistway door is opened, the measurement between the
   60  hoistway face of the hoistway door and the hoistway face of the
   61  car door at its leading edge may not exceed 4 inches. If it is
   62  possible for a user to detach or disconnect either door from the
   63  operator and such detachment or disconnection allows the user to
   64  operate the door manually, the requirement in subparagraph 5.
   65  applies.
   66         5. If swinging or horizontally sliding hoistway doors and
   67  manual horizontally sliding car doors are used and both doors
   68  are in the fully closed position, the space between the swinging
   69  or horizontally sliding hoistway door and the manual
   70  horizontally sliding car doors must reject a 4-inch-diameter
   71  sphere at all points.
   72         (3)The underside of the platform of an elevator car shall
   73  be equipped with a device that, if the platform of the elevator
   74  car is obstructed anywhere on its underside in its downward
   75  travel, interrupts the electric power to the driving machine
   76  motor and brake, if provided, and stops the elevator car’s
   77  downward motion within 2 inches. The stroke of the device may
   78  not be less than the stopping distance of the platform of the
   79  elevator car. The force required to operate the device may not
   80  exceed 15 pounds. Downward motion shall be permitted to resume
   81  only after the elevator has been manually reset.
   82         (4)This section applies to all new elevators in a
   83  residential dwelling.
   84         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.