23-491. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Authorized representative" means the elevator inspector employed by the division.

2. "Certificate" means a certificate of inspection issued by the division.

3. "Chief" means the chief of the division.

4. "Commission" means the industrial commission of Arizona.

5. "Conveyance":

(a) Means an elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, moving walk, manlift, personnel hoist, material hoist, stage lift and special purpose personnel elevator.

(b) Does not include conveyances located at mines that are subject to regulation and inspection by the state mine inspector pursuant to title 27, chapter 3.

6. "Division" means the elevator division of the commission.

7. "Dumbwaiter" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism with a car of limited capacity and size that moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction and that is used exclusively for carrying material.

8. "Elevator" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform that moves in guides in substantially vertical direction and that serves two or more floors of a building or structure.

9. "Elevator company" means a person that is engaged in the business of erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing, repairing or maintaining conveyances.

10. "Escalator" means a power-driven, inclined, continuous stairway used for raising or lowering passengers.

11. "Interested party" means the commission and its agents and the owner or operator who has been issued a correction order.

12. "Manlift" means a device that consists of a power-driven endless belt moving in one direction only and provided with steps or platforms and attached handholds for the transportation of personnel from floor to floor.

13. "Material hoist" means a hoist for raising and lowering materials only and prohibiting the hoisting of persons.

14. "Moving walk" means 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.

15. "Owner" or "operator":

(a) Means an individual or organization, including this state and all political subdivisions of this state, that has title to, controls or has the duty to control the operation of one or more conveyances.

(b) Does not include an individual or organization that is engaged in mining or metallurgical operations and whose operation is subject to regulation and inspection by the state mine inspector pursuant to title 27, chapter 3.

16. "Personnel hoist":

(a) Means a mechanism that is used in connection with the construction, alteration, maintenance or demolition of a building, structure or other work, that is used for hoisting and lowering workers and materials and that is equipped with a car that moves on guide members during its vertical movement. 

(b) Includes a hoistway of a personnel hoist.

17. "Private elevator inspector" means an individual who is authorized by the commission under section 23-491.16 to conduct inspections under this article.

18. "Special purpose personnel elevator" means a passenger, hand-powered, counterweighted device or an electric-powered device that travels vertically in guides and that serves two or more landings.

19. "Stage lift" means a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a platform that moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction and that serves one or more landings.