Skokie, IL Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)
Key Facts
- Inspection frequency
- at least every 6 months
- Maintenance standard adopted
- ASME A17.3-90
- Certificate posting
- required inside each elevator
- New equipment
- barred from use until first inspection passes
- Pre-2005 elevators
- must meet ASME A17.3 standby/alarm rules
Summary
Skokie requires every elevator, escalator, dumbwaiter and movable stage or orchestra floor in the Village to be inspected under the Village Manager's direction at least once every six months, with unsafe equipment ordered stopped until it is brought back into compliance.
Add 3001.5.2 Inspections. Every elevator, movable stage, movable orchestra floor, movable platform, dumbwaiter or escalator shall be inspected under the direction of the Village Manager or designee at least once every 6 months, and no new equipment shall be placed in operation until an inspection of such equipment has been made. When the required inspection shows that all equipment and safety devices are in good working condition and good repair, it shall be the duty of the Village Manager or designee to cause to be issued a certificate setting forth the result of such inspection and tests and containing the date of inspection, the weight which such equipment will safely carry, and a statement that all equipment complies with the applicable provisions of the code. It shall be the duty of the Village Manager or designee to order that all equipment found to be in an unsafe condition be stopped and remain inoperative until equipment is found to be in compliance with all provisions of this code.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 205 | Zoning: Supplement 89).
Full Breakdown
Section 22-33(46) through (49) of the Skokie Village Code amends the 2021 International Building Code to add the Village's own elevator safety chapter. 1 makes it unlawful to install or alter an elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator or lifting mechanism for a stage, orchestra floor or platform without first obtaining a Village permit supported by drawings and specifications. 2 requires every elevator, movable stage, movable orchestra floor, movable platform, dumbwaiter or escalator to be inspected under the direction of the Village Manager or designee at least once every six months, and bars any new equipment from operating until it has passed an initial inspection.
3 requires that certificate to be framed and posted in a conspicuous place in each elevator and near every dumbwaiter, movable stage, orchestra floor, platform lift or escalator. If an inspection instead finds equipment unsafe, the Village Manager or designee must order it stopped and kept inoperative until it is brought back into compliance. 1 in buildings four stories or taller, with a limited exemption for four-to-seven story buildings that installed an approved fire alarm and central-station notification system before January 1, 2010.
Violations & Fines
Operating an elevator or related lifting equipment without the required Village permit, or continuing to run equipment an inspector has ordered stopped as unsafe, violates Section 22-33 and is enforced under the general penalty in Section 1-6; equipment found out of compliance must remain inoperative until it passes a follow-up inspection.
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