Glen Cove, NY Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)

Section 168-15 of the Housing Standards, in Chapter 168's Article II space requirements group, is the city code provision addressing elevators and escalators in Glen Cove: elevators and escalators shall be maintained in good and safe operating condition, and adequately lighted at all times. It sits between the chapter's public-space lighting rules and the railings and parapet-wall standards of Section 168-16, and it applies to any residential building, hotel unit, lodging unit or multiple dwelling with an elevator or escalator serving the property. The duty is general rather than a numeric inspection schedule: Glen Cove's own code does not set a testing interval, permit fee or licensed-inspector requirement for elevators here, and structural soundness of equipment is otherwise tied to the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code under Section 168-19.

Compliance is folded into the same enforcement machinery as the rest of Chapter 168: the Building Department Administrator is the enforcement officer (§168-54), conducts annual inspections of multiple dwellings, and can order repairs whenever an elevator is found unsafe or inoperative (§168-55, §168-56). An owner who lets an elevator go unmaintained can be issued a written violation order with a compliance deadline, and failing to correct the condition exposes the owner to the same escalating fines, from $1,000 up to $5,000 per repeat offense, plus up to 15 days in jail per count, that apply to any other Housing Standards violation (§168-63A).