Cicero, IL Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)
Key Facts
- Inspection frequency
- Every 6 months, twice yearly
- Inspection fee
- $185.00 per unit
- Re-inspection fee
- $90.00
- Covered equipment
- Elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, lifts
- Adopted standard
- ASME A17.1-2005 and related codes
Summary
Cicero requires every elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator and wheelchair lift to be inspected twice a year at $185.00 per inspection, with a $90.00 fee for any required re-inspection. The town has adopted the ASME/ANSI/ASCE elevator safety codes into its own ordinance.
Inspections for elevators must occur at least once every six months for a total of two inspections per year. Fees for the inspection of any elevator shall be as follows: (1) Dumbwaiters .....$185.00 (2) Elevators (passenger and freight) .....185.00 (3) Escalators .....185.00 (4) Wheelchair lifts .....185.00 (c) Should a re-inspection be required for any of the four items mentioned above, there shall be a re-inspection of $90.00 for each re-inspection.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 121).
Full Breakdown
Section 46-10 of the Health and Sanitation chapter sets the inspection schedule and fee structure for vertical transportation equipment townwide. 00 per inspection. 00 re-inspection fee rather than a full inspection fee. 4-2004 Safety Requirements for Personal Hoists and Employee Elevators, and the ASCE 21-2000 Automated People Mover Standards. Building owners are responsible for keeping equipment compliant with those adopted standards between inspections, since the town's own inspectors check against them at the mandated six-month intervals.
Violations & Fines
The section itself is structured as a fee and inspection-frequency mandate rather than a fine schedule; noncompliant equipment failing inspection triggers the $90.00 re-inspection charge, and repeated failures under the adopted ASME/ANSI/ASCE standards can hold up an occupancy or business license tied to the building.
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