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The Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators is a nationally accepted guide for the design, construction, installation, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, moving walks, material lifts and dumbwaiters with automatic transfer devices, and wheelchair and stairway chairlifts. It is the basis in total or in part for the elevator codes used throughout the United States.

The Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators is only a guide unless adopted as law by the authority having jurisdiction.

Local jurisdictions in their adopting legislation may sometimes revise and/or include requirements in addition to those found in this Code. It is therefore advisable to check with the local jurisdiction before applying these Rules in any area.

Paragraph 1.2 outlines examples of equipment not covered by the ASME A17.1 Code. Paragraph 1.3 specifies those Parts of the Code which apply only to new installations as well as those Parts which apply to both new and existing installations.