File #: Int 0795-2022    Version: * Name: Elevator requirements in newly built residential buildings.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 10/27/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city building code, in relation to elevator requirements in newly built residential buildings
Sponsors: Rita C. Joseph, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would amend the city Building Code to require that new five or six story buildings need only have an elevator that accommodates a wheelchair, and not an elevator that accommodates an ambulance stretcher. For new buildings built seven or more stories high, the requirement to install elevators that can accommodate an ambulance stretcher would continue to apply.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 795, 2. Int. No. 795, 3. October 27, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-27-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 27, 2022

Int. No. 795

 

By Council Members Joseph and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city building code, in relation to elevator requirements in newly built residential buildings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 3002.4.2 of the New York city building code, as amended by local law 126 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

3002.4.2 Elevator car to accommodate ambulance stretcher. Where elevators are provided in buildings [five] seven or more stories above, or [four] six or more stories below grade plane, or underground buildings as described in Section 405.1, not fewer than one elevator subject to Section 3003.3 shall be provided with an elevator car of such a size and arrangement to accommodate an ambulance stretcher 24 inches by 84 inches (610 mm by 2134 mm), with not less than 5 inch (127 mm) radius corners, in the horizontal, open position and shall be identified by the international symbol for emergency medical services (star of life). The symbol shall be not less than 3 inches (76 mm) in height and shall be placed on both jambs of the hoistway entrances on each floor. Standby power shall be required for such an elevator if it serves a building subject to Section 3002.4.1.

 

Exceptions:

 

1.                     An elevator serving not more than one individual dwelling unit in a building pursuant to Section 3002.4.3.1 or 3002.4.3.2.

 

2.                     Limited-Use/Limited-Application (LULA) elevators (25 feet maximum rise).

 

§ 2. Chapter 30 of the New York city building code is amended by adding a new section 3002.4.2.1 to read as follows:

3002.4.2.1 Elevator car to accommodate wheelchair. Where elevators are provided in buildings five or more stories above, or four or more stories below grade plane, or underground buildings as described in Section 405.1, not fewer than one elevator subject to Section 3003.3 shall be provided with an elevator car of such a size and arrangement to accommodate a wheelchair, meeting the dimensional requirements in Section 407.4.1 of ICC A117.1. Standby power shall be required for such an elevator if it serves a building subject to Section 3002.4.1.

 

Exceptions:

 

1.  An elevator serving not more than one individual dwelling unit in a building pursuant to Section 3002.4.3.1 or 3002.4.3.2.

 

2.   Limited-Use/Limited-Application (LULA) elevators (25 feet maximum rise).

 

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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