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CHAPTER 30 ELEVATORS AND CONVEYING SYSTEMS SECTION 3001 GENERAL 3001.1 Scope. This chapter governs the design, construction, installation, alteration and repair of elevators and conveying systems and their components. > Exception: [DSA-AC] For accessibility requirements for platform lifts and elevators, see California Code of Regu- lations, Title 8 and Title 24, Part 2, Chapter 11 B, Sections 11 8-206.6,11 8-206.7, 118-407 and 118-410. 3001.2 Referenced standards. Except as otherwise provided for in this code, the design, construction, installation, altera- tion, repair and maintenance of elevators and conveying sys- tems and their components shall conform to California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Division 1, Chapter 4, Subchapter 6, Elevator Safety Orders, ASME A90.1, ASME 820.1, ALI ALCTV, and ASCE 24 for construction in flood hazard areas established in Section 1612.3. 3001.3 Accessibility. Passenger elevators and platform (wheelchair) lifts required to be accessible by Chapter 11 A or 118 shall conform to Chapter 1 1A for applications listed in Section 1.8.2.1.2 regulated by the Department of Housing and Community Development or Chapter 118 for applica- tions listed in Section 1.9.1 regulated by the Division of the State Architect-Access Compliance. 3001.4 Change in use. A change in use of an elevator from freight to passenger, passenger to freight, or from one freight class to another freight class shall comply with California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Division 1, Chapter 4, Subchap- ter 6, Elevator Safety Orders. 3001.5 Elevators utilized to transport hazardous materials. Elevators utilized to transport hazardous materials shall also comply with the California Fire Code Section 2703.10.4 SECTION 3002 HOISTWAY ENCLOSURES 3002.1 Hoistway enclosure protection. Elevator, dumb- waiter and other hoistway enclosures shall be shaft enclo- sures complying with Section 713. 3002.1.1 Opening protectives. Openings in hoistway enclosures shall be protected as required in Chapter 7. Exception: The elevator car doors and the associated hoistway enclosure doors at the f[oor level designated for recall in accordance with Section 3003.2 shall be permitted to remain open during Phase I Emergency Recall Operation. 3002.1.2 Hardware. Hardware on opening protectives shall be of an approved type installed as tested, except that approved interlocks, mechanical locks and electric con- tacts, door and gate electric contacts and door-operating 2013 CALIFORNIA BUILDING CODE mechanisms shall be exempt from the fire test require- ments. 3002.2 Number of elevator cars in a hoistway. Where four or more elevator cars serve all or the same portion of a build- ing, the elevators shall be located in no fewer than two sepa- rate hoistways. Not more than four elevator cars shall be located in any single hoistway enclosure. 3002.3 Emergency signs. An approved pictorial sign of a standardized design shall be posted adjacent to each elevator call station on all floors instructing occupants to use the exit stairways and not to use the elevators in case of fire. The sign shall read: IN CASE OF FIRE, ELEVATORS ARE OUT OF SERVICE. USE EXIT STAIRS. Exceptions: 1. The emergency sign shall not be required for eleva- ton that are part of an accessible means of egress complying with Section 1007.4. 2. The emergency sign shall not be required for eleva- tors that are used for occupant selftevacuation in accordance with Section 3008. 3002.4 Elevator car to accommodate ambulance stretcher. Where elevators are provided in buildings four or more stories above, or four or more stories below, grade plane, at least one elevator shall be provided for fire depart- ment emergency access to all floors. The elevator car shall be of such a size and arrangement to accommodate an ambu- lance 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 inter- national symbol for emergency medical services (star of life). The symbol shall not be less than 3 inches (76 mm) in height and shall be placed inside on both sides of the hoistway door frame. The following California sections replace the corresponding model code section for applications specified in section 1.11 for the Office of the State Fire Marshal. 3002.4a General stretcher requirements. All buildings and structures with one or more passenger service elevators shall be provided with not less than one medical emergency service elevator to all landings meeting the provisions of Section 3002.4a. Exceptions: 1. Elevators in structures used only by maintenance and operating personnel. 2. Elevators in jails and penal institutions. 3. Elevators in buildings or structures where each Landing is at ground level or is accessible at grade level or by a ramp. 4. Elevator(s) in two-story buildings or structures equipped with stairs of a configuration that will 413