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399.01  Definitions.--As used in this chapter, the term:

(1)  "Alteration" means any change or addition to the equipment other than maintenance, repair, or replacement.

(2)  "Certificate of competency" means a document issued by the division which evidences the competency of a person to construct, install, inspect, maintain, or repair any elevator.

(3)  "Certificate of operation" means a document that authorizes an elevator owner to operate the elevator and that is issued to the elevator owner when the division finds that the elevator complies with the requirements of this chapter.

(4)  "Division" means the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

(5)  "Elevator" means one of the following mechanical devices:

(a)  A hoisting and lowering mechanism, equipped with a car and platform that moves in guide rails and serves two or more landings to transport material or passengers or both.

(b)  An escalator, which is a power-driven, inclined continuous stairway used for raising or lowering passengers.

(c)  A dumbwaiter, which is a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car of limited size which moves in guide rails and serves two or more landings.

(d)  A moving walk, which is 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.

(e)  An inclined stairway chairlift, which is a device used to transport physically handicapped persons over architectural barriers.

(f)  An inclined or vertical wheelchair lift, which is a device used to transport wheelchair handicapped persons over architectural barriers.

(6)  "Elevator company" means any person that constructs, installs, inspects, maintains, or repairs any elevator.

(7)  "Service maintenance contract" means a contract that provides for routine examination, lubrication, cleaning, adjustment, replacement of parts, and performance of applicable code-required safety tests on a traction elevator and annual relief pressure test on a hydraulic elevator and any other service, repair, and maintenance sufficient to ensure the safe operation of the elevator.

History.--s. 1, ch. 24096, 1947; s. 1, ch. 57-227; ss. 16, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 10, ch. 71-157; s. 1, ch. 71-228; s. 151, ch. 71-377; s. 1, ch. 81-120; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 1, 16, 17, ch. 83-145; s. 1, ch. 90-73; ss. 1, 8, ch. 93-16; s. 47, ch. 94-218.