Lauderhill, FL Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)

Sec. 6-17(a) defines an elevator broadly as any permanently installed machinery, apparatus and equipment used to raise and lower a car, cage or platform vertically between rails or guides, covering both passenger and freight elevators in the city. Sec. 6-17(b) requires the mirror to be constructed and positioned so that anyone about to enter can see, with the mirror's help, whether another person is concealed inside, and it lets the building department accept a highly polished plexiglass or other reflective surface as an alternate to stainless steel.

Ord. No. 86-147 enacted the requirement on October 27, 1986 and gave existing elevator owners six months from that date to comply, per Sec. 6-17(c). Sec. 6-17(d) puts enforcement in the hands of the Lauderhill Code Enforcement Board under Chapter 7½, alongside any other remedy the law otherwise allows for enforcing municipal ordinances. The requirement sits within Article I of Chapter 6, Buildings and Building Regulations, the same chapter that governs building permits, unsafe structures and the city's newer thirty-year building safety inspection program. Separately, the city's fire department charges a $30.00 fee under Sec. 6-10 to inspect and test elevators as part of its annual fire safety inspection program for commercial and larger residential buildings.