Elgin, IL Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)
Key Facts
- Core elevator standard
- ASME A17.1-2005 (plus 2005 addenda)
- Inspector qualification standard
- ASME QEI-1-2004
- Existing elevators standard
- ASME A17.3-2005
- Platform lifts/chairlifts standard
- ASME A18.1-2005
- Enforcing agency
- Community development department
- Adopted
- Ord. No. G39-08, 2008
Summary
Elgin adopted a package of seven ASME, ANSI and ASCE standards as its elevator safety code under § 16.30.010, covering everything from elevators and escalators to platform lifts and automated people movers. The community development department administers and enforces the entire package.
The following documents ... are hereby adopted as and shall be known as the elevator safety code of the city for establishing minimum requirements, with due regard to function, for the design, operation, inspection, and maintenance of elevators within the city ... A. Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators (ASME A17.1-2005), A17.1(a)-2005, and A17.1(s)-2005 (American Society for Mechanical Engineers); B. Guide for Inspection of Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Walks (ASME A17.2-2004); C. Safety Code for Existing Elevators and Escalators (ASME A17.3-2005); D. Safety Standard for Platform Lifts and Stairway Chairlifts (ASME A18.1-2005); E. Standard for the Qualification of Elevator Inspectors (ASME QEI-1-2004); F. Safety Requirements for Personal Hoists and Employee Elevators (ANSI A10.4-2004); and G. Automated People Mover Standards (ASCE 21-2000).
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 7).
Full Breakdown
4-2004, safety requirements for personal hoists and employee elevators; and ASCE 21-2000, the automated people mover standard. Every regulation, provision, penalty and term of those documents is adopted as if fully set out in the chapter, with the city's own additions and deletions where prescribed. 020 assigns responsibility for enforcing the design, operation, inspection and maintenance rules for elevators to the community development department. 030 requires the more stringent or restrictive provision to control. The chapter dates to Ord. No. G39-08 in 2008 and remains the operative elevator code for the city, meaning inspections and qualifications for elevator work in Elgin must trace back to these seven adopted documents rather than a locally drafted maintenance schedule.
Violations & Fines
Operating, inspecting, or maintaining an elevator, escalator, platform lift, stairway chairlift, personal hoist or automated people mover out of compliance with the adopted ASME, ANSI or ASCE standards violates Chapter 16.30 and is enforced by the community development department. Violations fall under Elgin's general penalty, § 1.20.020: a $50 to $750 fine, with each day of noncompliance a separate offense, and the department can require correction and reinspection before continued operation.
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