This Code covers the design, construction, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the following equipment and its associated parts, rooms, spaces and hoistways, where located in or adjacent to a building or structure: (a) hoisting and lowering mechanisms, equipped with a car, which move between two or more landings. This equipment includes, but is not limited to elevators (see 1.3). (b) power-driven stairways and walkways for carrying persons between landings. This equipment includes, but is not limited to escalators and moving walks (see 1.3). (c) hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a car which serves two or more landings and is restricted to the carrying of material by its limited size or limited access to the car. This equipment includes, but is not limited to dumbwaiters and material lifts (see 1.3). NOTE 1.1.1(b) and (c): Only elevators are covered in this edition. Other equipment must comply with 1.2(a). Provision is made for other equipment to be covered in future editions.
ANSI/ASME A17.7-2006 history
2006ANSI/ASME A17.7-2006 Performance Based Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators