Garland, TX Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)
Key Facts
- Elevator maintenance
- Regulated by state law
- Governing state law
- Health & Safety Code ch. 754
- City elevator permit
- None found in Chapter 30
- Related city license
- Municipal Electrical Maintenance License
- Technician training
- 8 hours, Building-Official approved
- Max related fine
- Up to $2,000 per violation
Summary
Garland's own code does not set separate elevator-maintenance permit rules; its only mention of elevators exempts maintenance, alteration, and repair of elevators and escalators from the city's electrical-licensing scheme because that work is regulated under the Texas Health and Safety Code. The city licenses only general electrical connections tied to that equipment, not the elevator mechanism itself.
Limitations of work. Work that may be performed under this license by an electrical maintenance technician shall be limited to the maintenance of, repair or replacement of devices or lighting fixtures, having the same characteristics as the existing devices or fixtures, in or on existing outlets and shall include, but not be limited to the following: ... (m) Maintenance, alteration, or repair of elevators, escalators, or related equipment, excluding any required power source, regulated under chapter 754, Health and Safety Code;
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4862189; v40 updated 2026-05-19).
Full Breakdown
51 sets up Garland's Municipal Electrical Maintenance License, letting a government entity's own employees perform limited electrical maintenance on property the entity owns or controls after 8 hours of Building-Official-approved training. Subsection (D)(2) lists exactly what that license covers, item by item, down to receptacle voltage and breaker amperage, and item (m) states plainly that 'maintenance, alteration, or repair of elevators, escalators, or related equipment, excluding any required power source,' is 'regulated under chapter 754, Health and Safety Code' rather than by the city's own electrical code.
That is the only place Garland's Code of Ordinances addresses elevators directly; there is no separate city elevator-inspection article, permit, or annual certificate requirement in Chapter 30. Practically, that means a governmental entity's own licensed maintenance technician may still touch the power feed and disconnects the license authorizes (item (n) covers back-up power systems, item (l) covers HVAC and refrigeration connections up to 480 volts), but the elevator car, hoistway equipment, and safety devices themselves stay under the state's licensing and inspection program rather than the city's Building Official.
Building owners and management companies operating elevators in Garland answer to the state program administered under Health and Safety Code chapter 754, not to a city elevator ordinance.
Violations & Fines
Because Chapter 30 does not regulate elevator maintenance directly, there is no city-level fine schedule for it. A violation of the scope limits on a municipal electrical maintenance technician's license, such as touching equipment the license doesn't cover, is enforced like any other Chapter 30 electrical violation: a misdemeanor under section 30.49, punishable under the general penalty of section 10.05, up to $2,000 for fire-safety-related violations or $500 otherwise, with each day a separate offense.
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