- Part Number:1917
- Part Number Title:Marine Terminals
- Subpart:1917 Subpart F
- Subpart Title:Terminal Facilities
- Standard Number:
- Title:Elevators and escalators.
- GPO Source:
"Elevator" means a permanent hoisting and lowering mechanism with a car or platform moving vertically in guides and serving two or more floors of a structure. The term excludes such devices as conveyors, tiering or piling machines, material hoists, skip or furnace hoists, wharf ramps, lift bridges, car lifts and dumpers.
"Escalator" means a power-driven continuous moving stairway principally intended for the use of persons.
[48 FR 30909, July 5, 1983, as amended at 49 FR 28551, July 13, 1984; 61 FR 5507, Feb. 13, 1996]