On May 16, 2013, the Department issued a Final Order that was in response to a Petition for Variance from Trinity Town Center, LLLP, filed February 14, 2013 and advertised on February 18, 2013, in Vol. 39 , No. 33 , of the Florida Administrative ...

 

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION

Division of Hotels and Restaurants

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

61C-5.001:Safety Standards

The Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Hotels and Restaurants, Bureau of Elevator Safety hereby gives notice:

On May 16, 2013, the Department issued a Final Order that was in response to a Petition for Variance from Trinity Town Center, LLLP, filed February 14, 2013 and advertised on February 18, 2013, in Vol. 39, No. 33 , of the Florida Administrative Register. No comments were received in response to the petition. The Final Order on the Petition for Variance denies the Petitioner a variance from Rule 3.1, 3.4.4,3.4.5, 3.4.7, 3.4.8, 3.7, 3.8, 3.16.3, 3.19.2.6, 3.19.4.1, 3.19.4.4, 3.19.4.5, 3.21, 3.21.2, 3.24.3.1, 3.25.1.2, 3.25.1.3, 3.25.1.4, 3.26.2, 3.26.4.2, 3.27, 3.27.1, 3.27.2, 3.27.3, 3.27.4, 2.1.1.1.2, 2.2.2.5, 2.3.3.1, 2.7.1.1.2, 2.7.1.3.1, 2.7.8.1, 2.8.3.3.2, 2.8.3.3.4, 2.11.1.4, 2.11.15, 2.11.19, 2.12.7.3.2, 2.13.4, 2.14.2.1.2, 2.14.7.1.4, 2.21.4, 2.26.1.4.1, 2.26.2.38, 2.26.4.3, 2.26.8.2, 2.26.9.3, 2.26.9.4, 2.26.9.5, 2.26.9.5.2, 2.26.9.5.3, 2.26.9.5.4, 2.26.9.6.1, 2.27.3, 2.27.3.1.6, 2.27.3.2.2, 2.27.3.2.4, 2.27.3.3.1, 2.27.3.4, 2.27.8, 2.27.9, 2.7.3.4.5, 2.7.3.4.6, 2.13.3.4, 2.13.5, 2.13.6, 2.14.1.7, 2.14.6.2.1, 2.16.9, 2.16.5.1.2, 2.19.2, 2.19.3.2, 2.26.1.5.5, 2.26.2, 2.26.4.4, 2.26.4.4.1, 2.26.4.4.2, 2.26.9.3, 2.27.3.1.6, 2.27.3.3.7, 2.27.4.2, 2.27.8, 2.1.4, 2.4.6, 2.4.6.2, 2.4.8, 2.12.7.3.7, 2.14.1.6, 2.14.1.6.2, 2.14.1.7, 2.14.1.7.2, 2.14.1.7.3, 2.14.1.7.4, 2.14.4.2.6, 2.27.1.1.3, 2.27.3.1.6, 2.27.3.2.2, 2.27.3.3.1, 2.27.3.3.7, 2.27.3.4, 2.27.4, ASME A17.1S, 2005 edition, A17.1, 2007 edition, A17.1a 2008 edition, A17.1b 2009 edition, as adopted by 61C-5.001(1)(a), Florida Administrative Code that requires upgrading the elevators construction of hoistways, and hoistway enclosures, maximum upward movement, top of car clearances, equipment of top of car not permitted to strike overhead structure, machinery spaces, machine rooms, control spaces, and control rooms, electrical equipment, wiring pipes, and ducts in hoistway, machinery spaces, machine room, control spaces and control rooms, capacity and data plates, pressure piping, shutoff valve, manual lowering valve, pressure gauge fittings, counterweights, covers and venting, location of stopping devices, requirements for stopping devices on the car or in the hoistway, inspection operation, electrical protective devices, emergency operation and signaling devices, phase I emergency recall operations after device actuation, phase I emergency recall operations prior to device actuation, device actuation at recall level, device actuation with phase II emergency in-car operation in effect, construction of hoistways and hoistway enclosures, pits, remote counterweight hoistways, machinery spaces, machine rooms, control spaces, and control rooms, floors, remote machine rooms and control rooms, pipes, ducts, tanks and sprinklers, protection of hoistway openings access openings for cleaning of car and hoistway enclosures, marking, gasketing of hoistway entrances, hoistway access switches, closing limitations for power-operated horizontally sliding hoistway doors and horizontally sliding car doors or gates, passenger-car enclosures, illumination of cars and lighting fixtures, compensation means, inspection operations, retractable ladder electrical device, electrical equipment and wiring, release and application of driving-machine brakes, control and operating circuits, firefighters’ emergency operation: automatic elevators, phase I emergency recall operation, phase II emergency in-car operation, interruption of power, switch keys, elevator corridor call station pictograph, control of smoke and gases, maximum upward movement of the car counterweighted elevators, top of counterweight clearances, hoistway access switches, car enclosure tops, passenger and freight car doors and gates, general requirements, car emergency signaling devices, firefighters emergency operation automatic elevators-phase I emergency recall operation, phase I emergency recall operation by fire alarm initiating devices, phase II emergency in-car operation, interruption of power and nonautomatic elevators because the Petitioner has not demonstrated that the purpose of the rule will be met or that Petitioner would suffer a substantial hardship if required to comply with this rule (VW2013-049).

A copy of the Order or additional information may be obtained by contacting: Mark Boutin, Bureau of Elevator Safety, 1940 North Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1013, 850-488-1133.