[Added 12-23-1985 by Ord. No. 31-1985]
[Amended 2-23-2015 by Ord. No. 7-2015]
All elevators within the City of East Orange shall be inspected by the designee of the Director of the Department of Property Maintenance and Code Enforcement in accordance with the New Jersey Statutes and the New Jersey Administrative Code.
A. 
All operating and electrical parts and accessory equipment for elevator devices shall be maintained in good working order and free of hazards.
[Amended 2-23-2015 by Ord. No. 7-2015]
The following fee schedule for elevator inspections, payable to the City of East Orange, is hereby established:
Inspection
Fee
Final-acceptance inspections and tests
$250
Semiannual inspections
$125
Annual inspections and tests
$150
Reinspection
$65
3-year inspections and tests
$75
5-year inspections and tests
$250
[Added 10-10-1989 by Ord. No. 23-1989]
A. 
Horizontally sliding doors shall be provided at each elevator car entrance. The use of collapsible-type gates to guard the entrance to elevator cars is expressly prohibited, except as otherwise provided in this section.
B. 
The use of control systems capable of receiving floor calls prior to the establishment of the car gate and hoistway door contacts or capable of the retaining of more than one floor call subsequent to the establishment of the car gate and hoistway door contacts, when used in conjunction with collapsible-type car entrance gates, shall be prohibited.
C. 
Collapsible-type gates in presently existing structures shall be removed and replaced with horizontally sliding doors within six months of the effective date of this chapter.
D. 
Elevators within incorporate collapsible-type gates and which do not conform to the distance allowed from car gate to hoistway door provided by the code of the American National Standard Institute A17.1, Rule 204.4, Section 204.4e, entitled "Location" shall be removed from service immediately, whereupon they shall be made conformant and returned to service, pending gate replacement.
E. 
Elevators which incorporate the following systems — accept calls (inserted by the pressing of car or hall buttons requesting elevator response) placed without the hoistway door and car gate being closed; or retain more than one call placed subsequent to the closing of the hoistway door and gate; and which utilize a collapsing gate to guard the car entrance — shall be removed from service immediately and have their control systems altered to conform to this section and returned to service, pending gate replacement.