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Bill Text

A4848 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4848 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 4, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides for satisfaction of licensure requirements 
for certain elevator inspectors through certification as qualified elevator 
inspector. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning requirements for certain elevator 
inspector licenses and amending and supplementing P.L.1997, c.336.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1997, 
c.336 (C.52:27D-126f) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� a.� As used in this 
section:

���� "Elevator device" 
means a hoisting and lowering device equipped with a car or platform which 
moves in guides for the transportation of individuals or freight in a 
substantially vertical direction through successive floors or levels of a 
building or structure.� The term includes, without limitation, elevators, 
dumbwaiters, wheelchair lifts, manlifts, stairway chairlifts and any device 
within the scope of ASME A17.1 (Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators) or 
ASME A90.1 (Safety Standard for Belt Manlifts), except escalators and moving 
walks.� It shall not include any conveyor devices that are process equipment.

���� "Qualified elevator 
device inspection firm" means any entity, whether a sole proprietorship, 
partnership, association or corporation, that is engaged in the business of 
inspecting, testing, installing, maintaining or repairing elevator devices, or 
the business of inspecting and testing elevator devices, is registered for 
those purposes with the Department of Community Affairs, and employs at least 
one qualified elevator device inspector. 

���� "Qualified elevator 
device inspector" means any person who is employed by a qualified elevator 
device inspection firm and who is licensed by the Department of Community 
Affairs to conduct the routine, periodic and acceptance inspections and tests 
of elevator devices required pursuant to the provisions of the "State 
Uniform Construction Code Act," P.L.1975, c.217 (C.52:27D-119 et seq.).

���� b.��� No elevator devices 
which, under the provisions of the "State Uniform Construction Code 
Act," P.L.1975, c.217 (C.52:27D-119 et seq.), are subject to routine, 
periodic and acceptance inspections and tests by the local enforcing agency or 
the Department of Community Affairs shall be subject to such inspections and 
tests, nor shall the owner of the structure be charged any fees therefor, if 
those elevator devices are subjected to acceptance testing and are routinely 
and periodically inspected and tested by a qualified elevator device inspection 
firm, and the owner has registered each such elevator device with the 
Department of Community Affairs and has indicated in the registration 
application form, or in a supplement to that form, the identity of the qualified 
elevator device inspection firm that has been given responsibility for 
inspection and testing of the elevator device.

���� The inspections and tests, 
including the frequency thereof, conducted by a qualified elevator device 
inspector shall be in accordance with such rules and regulations as the 
Commissioner of Community Affairs may prescribe pursuant to the "State 
Uniform Construction Code Act," P.L.1975, c.217 (C.52:27D-119 et seq.) and 
subsection e. of this section.� Acceptance testing and the five-year test shall 
be witnessed by the local enforcing agency or the Department of Community 
Affairs in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of 
Community Affairs may prescribe pursuant to the "State Uniform 
Construction Code Act," P.L.1975, c.217 (C.52:27D-119 et seq.) and 
subsection e. of this section.� No qualified elevator device inspector shall 
act in that capacity when his work on the elevator device is the work being 
inspected.

���� c.���� If, upon inspection or 
test, a qualified elevator device inspector shall find that an elevator device 
is in a dangerous condition, or if there is an immediate hazard to persons 
riding on or using any such device, the inspector shall immediately prohibit any 
further use of the device and shall so notify in writing the owner and the 
local enforcing agency or Department of Community Affairs, as the case may be.� 
The device shall remain out of service until such time as the inspector shall 
certify in writing that the dangerous condition or immediate hazard has been 
removed or corrected and that the device is safe for public use.� If the local 
enforcing agency or the department shall determine, in response to a complaint 
or otherwise, that an elevator device is in a dangerous condition or that there 
is an immediate hazard to persons riding on or using that device, the local 
enforcing agency or the department may require the owner of the elevator device 
to make such repairs as may