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Subpart 1. To be reported. The owner or part of the damaged installation, construction, person in control of an elevator or other or operating mechanism may be removed installation covered by this code shall notify from the premises until permission is granted the authority having jurisdiction of any by the authority having jurisdiction. accident involving personal injury or damage to equipment covered in this chapter to a person or apparatus on, about, or in 1307.0045 SPECIAL PROVISIONS. connection with an elevator or other Subpart 1. Scope. The special provisions in installation, and shall allow the authority this part apply to the design,construction,and having jurisdiction reasonable access to the installation of equipment governed by ASME equipment and the opportunity to take A17.1-1996 and ASME A17.3-1996. statements from employees and agents of the owner or person in control for investigating Subp. 2. Number of cars in hoistway. the accident and the resultant damage. When there are three or fewer elevator cars in Notification may be given to the authority a building, they may be located within the having jurisdiction by telephone or verbally. same hoistway enclosure. When there are The notification must also be confirmed in four elevator cars, they must be divided in writing. Notification must be made within such a manner that at least two separate one working day of the accident. Failure to hoistway enclosures are provided. When provide the proper notification may be there are more than four elevators, not more considered a violation as described in than four elevator cars may be located within Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.745. a single hoistway enclosure. Subp.2. Investigation. The authority having Subp. 3. Elevator lobby. Elevator lobbies jurisdiction must make or cause to be made it ust be installed and constructed as required an investigation of the accident, and the by the UBC. When firefighters' service is report of the investigation must be placed on installed and an elevator lobby is not file in its office. The report must give in provided, an area of the ceiling outside the detail the cause or causes, so far as can be hoistway opening must bprovided with a determined, and the report must be available draft curtain. The area of the ceiling enclosed for public inspection subject to the by the draft curtain must be large enough so requirements of the Minnesota Government that it surrounds the elevator's smoke Data Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes, detector, encloses the width of the hoistway chapter 13. entrance, and has a minimum area equal to The floor area of the car. The draft curtain Subp. 3. Operation discontinued. When an must consist s of glass set in metal frames or accident involves the failure or destruction of a part of the installation or the operating construction complying with the construction mechanism, the elevator or other installation type of the building. Where a seven-toot must be taken out of service and may not beminimum ceiling height can be maintained used again until it has been made safe and the below the draft curtain, the draft curtain shall reuse approved by the authority having extend down a minimum of 12 inches from jurisdiction. The authority having jurisdiction the ceiling. tN $.2.e Pot,ci may, when necessary, order the Subp. 4. Standby power. Standby power discontinuance of operation of any such when required by chapter 1341, Minnesota elevator or installation until a new certificate Accessibility Code, or UBC section 403 shall of operation has been issued. be capable of providing power to at least one Subp. 4. Removal of parts restricted. No elevator in each bank to serve all floors of the building. Standby power shall be manually 246