Overland Park, KS Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)

1, part of the city's adopted and amended International Property Maintenance Code, sets the maintenance standard for vertical transportation equipment. 1, the national safety code for elevators and escalators, and it requires the current inspection certificate to be displayed at all times inside the elevator, attached to the escalator or dumbwaiter, kept available in the building operator's office, or posted at a publicly conspicuous location the Code Official approves. 5. Building owners and property managers, not the city, are responsible for scheduling the certified inspections and keeping records current; the Code Official can request the certificate during a routine property maintenance inspection under the same chapter.

1 sits inside the property maintenance code rather than the building code, it governs ongoing maintenance of equipment already installed, separate from the permitting and installation standards applied when an elevator is first constructed or altered. A building found with an expired certificate or unmaintained equipment is treated the same as any other Property Maintenance Code violation: the Code Official issues a notice of violation, and if the owner does not correct it, the matter proceeds under the chapter's enforcement and penalty provisions.