Lafayette, LA Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- LCG PMC § 26-279, Elevators/escalators
- Maintenance standard
- ASME A17.1 compliance required
- Inspection schedule
- ASME A17.1 Appendix N intervals
- Certificate posting
- Displayed in car or operator's office
- Multi-elevator rule
- At least 1 running while occupied
Summary
Lafayette requires every elevator, escalator, and dumbwaiter to be maintained to ASME A17.1 and inspected on that standard's Appendix N schedule under Sec. 26-279, with the current inspection certificate posted where the public or the building official can see it, and at least one elevator kept running whenever a multi-elevator building is occupied.
(a)General. Elevators, dumbwaiters and escalators shall be maintained in compliance with ASME A17.1. The most current certificate of inspection shall be on display at all times within the elevator or attached to the escalator or dumbwaiter, be available for public inspection in the office of the building operator or be posted in a publicly conspicuous location approved by the building official. The inspection and tests shall be performed at not less than the periodic intervals listed in ASME A17.1, Appendix N, except where otherwise specified by the authority having jurisdiction.(b)Elevators. In Buildings equipped with passenger elevators, not less than one elevator shall be maintained in operation at all times when the building is occupied. Exception: Buildings equipped with only one elevator shall be permitted to have the elevator temporarily out of service for testing or servicing.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 65).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 1, Appendix N, unless the authority having jurisdiction specifies something else. Compliance isn't just a maintenance file: the section requires the current certificate of inspection to be physically on display inside the elevator car itself, or attached to the escalator or dumbwaiter, or at minimum available for public inspection in the building operator's office or posted somewhere the building official has approved as conspicuous. For buildings with multiple passenger elevators, Sec. 26-279(b) requires at least one car to stay in service at all times the building is occupied, a single-elevator building gets a narrow exception allowing that one elevator to go down temporarily for testing or servicing, but a multi-elevator building can't take every car offline at once.
Enforcement runs through the building official's inspection authority in Sec. 26-257, and a failed or overdue inspection certificate is itself evidence of noncompliance during a PMC inspection.
Violations & Fines
A building operator without a current, posted ASME A17.1 inspection certificate, or one running an elevator past its Appendix N testing interval, is in violation of Sec. 26-279; the building official can order the equipment taken out of service or corrected, escalating to the administrative hearing process under chapter 26, article XVI if the operator doesn't comply.
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