Fort Collins, CO Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)

The City adopted the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code (third printing, November 2024) by reference in City Code § 5-46, giving it the same force as if written into the Code itself, and covers minimum standards for premises, structures and equipment including life safety and fire hazard protection. 1, the national safety code for elevators and escalators. The most current certification of inspection has to be on display at all times inside the elevator, attached to the escalator or dumbwaiter, kept available for public inspection in the building operator's office, or posted somewhere publicly conspicuous that the code official approves.

1 as further specified by the State of Colorado's Conveyance Regulations at 7 Colorado Code of Regulations 1101-8, so state conveyance inspectors' schedules control timing even though the maintenance duty itself is a city code obligation. This provision sits in Chapter 5, Division 3, 'Structure and Premises Condition Code,' alongside related maintenance rules for heating, electrical receptacles and emergency escape openings, and it was most recently carried forward under Ord. No. 216, 2025, § 3, adopted December 16, 2025. Responsibility for compliance runs to the building operator, who is also the party required to keep the certificate posted, and the City's building/code enforcement office is the enforcing authority for the Property Maintenance Code generally.