Bill Text: IL SB2996 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Elevator Safety and Regulation Act. Provides that the Act applies to any State-owned buildings within a municipality with a population over 500,000. Provides that the amendatory Act is a clarification of existing law and shall be retroactive to June 1, 2003.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - Referred to Assignments [SB2996 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB2996-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB2996 Introduced 1/5/2022, by Sen. Bill Cunningham SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 312/10
Amends the Elevator Safety and Regulation Act. Provides that the Act applies to any State-owned buildings within a municipality with a population over 500,000. Provides that the amendatory Act is a clarification of existing law and shall be retroactive to June 1, 2003.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Elevator Safety and Regulation Act is
amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
(225 ILCS 312/10)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2023)
Sec. 10. Applicability.
(a) This Act covers the construction, operation,
inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of
the following equipment, its associated parts, and its
hoistways (except as modified by subsection (c) of this
Section):
(1) Hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a
car or platform, which move between 2 or more landings.
This equipment includes, but is not limited to, the
following (also see ASME A17.1, ASME A17.3, and ASME
A18.1):
(A) Elevators.
(B) Platform lifts and stairway chair lifts.
(2) Power driven stairways and walkways for carrying
persons between landings. This equipment includes, but is
not limited to, the following (also see ASME A17.1 and

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ASME A17.3):
(A) Escalators.
(B) Moving walks.
(3) Hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a
car, which serves 2 or more landings and is restricted to
the carrying of material by its limited size or limited
access to the car. This equipment includes, but is not
limited to, the following (also see ASME A17.1 and ASME
A17.3):
(A) Dumbwaiters.
(B) Material lifts and dumbwaiters with automatic
transfer devices.
(b) This Act covers the construction, operation,
inspection, maintenance, alteration, and repair of automatic
guided transit vehicles on guideways with an exclusive
right-of-way. This equipment includes, but is not limited to,
automated people movers (also see ASCE 21).
(c) This Act does not apply to the following equipment:
(1) Material hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.5.
(2) Manlifts within the scope of ASME A90.1.
(3) Mobile scaffolds, towers, and platforms within the
scope of ANSI A92.
(4) Powered platforms and equipment for exterior and
interior maintenance within the scope of ANSI 120.1.
(5) Conveyors and related equipment within the scope
of ASME B20.1.

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(6) Cranes, derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks, and slings
within the scope of ASME B30.
(7) Industrial trucks within the scope of ASME B56.
(8) Portable equipment, except for portable escalators
that are covered by ANSI A17.1.
(9) Tiering or piling machines used to move materials
to and from storage located and operating entirely within
one story.
(10) Equipment for feeding or positioning materials at
machine tools, printing presses, etc.
(11) Skip or furnace hoists.
(12) Wharf ramps.
(13) Railroad car lifts or dumpers.
(14) Line jacks, false cars, shafters, moving
platforms, and similar equipment used for installing an
elevator by a contractor licensed in this State.
(15) (Blank).
(16) Conveyances located in a private residence not
accessible to the public.
(17) Special purpose personnel elevators within the
scope of ASME A17.1 and used only by authorized personnel.
(18) Personnel hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.4.
(d) This Act does not apply to a municipality with a
population over 500,000, except for any State-owned buildings
within such municipality. This amendatory Act of the 102nd
General Assembly is a clarification of existing law and shall

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be retroactive to June 1, 2003.
(Source: P.A. 95-573, eff. 8-31-07; 96-54, eff. 7-23-09;
96-342, eff. 8-11-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)