The amendments to the 2017 edition of the ASME Safety Standard for Platform Lifts and Stairway Chairlifts are listed hereafter by section. The last digits of the number (after the title and chapter digits) are the sections of the Safety Standard for Platform Lifts and Stairway Chairlifts to which the amendments refer.
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)
Amend the definition of "Application" to read as follows:
"This Standard applies to new installations only, except sections 10 and 11, which apply to new and existing installations."
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)
A. 
Machine Driving. Amend section 1.3 by adding the following definition:
"Chained-hydraulic driving machine: a hydraulic driving machine in which the plunger or piston is connected to the platform with roller chains and sprockets. It includes the cylinder, the plunger or piston, and multiplying sprockets, if any, and their guides."
B. 
Installation placed out of service. Amend the definition of "Installation, placed out of service" to read as follows:
"An installation whose power feed lines have been disconnected from the machine disconnect switch, whose suspension means, driving belts, etc. have been removed from the premises, whose car and counterweight rests at the bottom of the runway, whose pressure piping has been disassembled and a section removed from the premises, and whose hoistway doors are permanently barricaded or sealed in the closed position on the runway side, except for the bottom landing door/gate which can be sealed or barricaded on the outside of the runway with a permanent and tamper proof means."
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)
Amend section 2.1.1.7 by adding the following sentence to the end of the section:
"Running clearance between platform enclosure walls and the runway enclosure walls, vertical face of the machine housing, or other rigid surfaces shall not exceed 75mm (3 in.) when the open space is of a width 300mm (12 in.) or greater."
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)
Amend section 10.1.2 by replacing subsections 10.1.2.1 through 10.1.2.3 with the following:
"The owner or the owner's authorized agent shall have all of the periodic tests required by 10.3 performed by Lift personnel, as defined in 1.3 of the A18.1-2017. All periodic tests required by 10.3 shall be permitted to be witnessed by the Lift personnel. Periodic test results shall be reviewed for compliance by a Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) Elevator Inspector during their routine inspections required by 10.2. The Lift personnel shall record the test results on the approved MOA A18.1-2017 periodic test form. The MOA A18.1-2017 periodic test form shall be placed on the lower exterior of the lift tower (if the lift is a vertical platform lift), or adjacent to the top or bottom ends of the lift (if the lift is an inclined platform lift or stairway chairlift) for review by the MOA Elevator Inspector during their routine inspections required by 10.2."
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)
Amend the title and language of section 10.2.1 to read as follows:
"Inspection and Test Periods. The routine inspections and tests of sections 2 through 4 lifts (lifts installed in locations other than in or at a private residence) shall be made at intervals not longer than 24 months."
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)
Amend the title and language of section 10.3.1.7 to read as follows:
"Slack-Rope or Slack-Chain Device on Roped-Hydraulic and Chained-Hydraulic Machines. Slack-rope or slack-chain devices for roped-hydraulic or chained-hydraulic lifts will be tested for conformance by lowering the platform or blocking and creating slack rope or chain causing the device to operate. The slack rope or chain can also be obtained by operation of the safety during the annual safety test."
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)
Amend the first sentence in section 10.3.3.4 to read:
"Ropes or chains used on roped-hydraulic or chained-hydraulic lifts shall be inspected."
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)
Amend section 11.3.1 by adding subsection (e) as follows:
"(e) for lifts that have a runway enclosure, the required on-site documentation logs shall be kept outside the tower but within the lower end of runway enclosure, so that they are available to lift and inspection personnel, but not to the general public (one-year and five-year test forms shall still be in their own plastic sleeve on the lower exterior of the lift tower, per local amendment to section 10.1.2, and the test forms shall not be covered up by the written maintenance program logs). For lifts that have no runway enclosure, the required on-site documentation shall be kept in a secure on-site location chosen by the building owner or their representative, so that the written documents are available to lift and inspection personnel, but not where they are available to the general public. For those documents kept in a secure-on-site location, instructions to locate the written documents shall be placed on the lower exterior of the lift tower adjacent to the test forms, if the lift is a AO Updating Electric, Elevator, Lift Codes Page 23 of 23 vertical platform lift, or adjacent to the top or bottom ends of the lift adjacent to the test forms, if the lift is an inclined platform lift or stairway chairlift."
(AO No. 2020-85, § 1, 10-27-2020)