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...nstallation, maintenance, and repair of elevators and their appurtenances. The superintendent, with the consent of the director, and in compliance with Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, may appoint and hire general inspectors of elevators from the holders of certificates of competency.

...tes of competency in the inspection of elevators, any company that is authorized to insure elevators in the state, may designate persons to inspect elevators covered by such company's policies, and the department of public safety of any city and the clerk of any village may designate persons to inspect elevators in such city or village. Such persons shall, upon the payment of a fee to be established as provide...

...ve as a special inspector may be suspended or revoked by the superintendent of industrial compliance, for the incompetence or untrustworthiness of the holder thereof, or for the falsification of any matter or statement contained in the holder's application or in a report of any inspection.

...If a certificate or commission issued under sections 4105.02 and 4105.04 of the Revised Code is lost or destroyed a new one shall be issued in its place by the division of industrial compliance without another examination, upon the payment of a fee to be established as provided in section 4105.07 of the Revised Code.

...s in the state, the inspection may be made by a special inspector of such company, and the only fee collectible by the state shall be the certificate fee provided for in section 4105.17 of the Revised Code.

...al inspector, the inspection shall be made by a general inspector, and for each inspection there shall be a fee charged as provided in section 4105.17 of the Revised Code.

...r user, giving the type, capacity, and description, name of manufacturer, and purpose for which each is used. Such registration shall be made on a form to be furnished by the division.

...ovided in division (B) of this section, elevators shall be inspected in accordance with the following: (1) Every passenger elevator, escalator, moving walk, and freight elevator, including gravity elevators, shall be inspected twice every twelve months. (2) Power dumb-waiters, hoists, and other lifting or lowering apparatus, not designed to carry persons, permanently installed, either on or between rails or guide...

...The inspection of elevators shall be made by the inspectors authorized in sections 4105.03 and 4105.04 of the Revised Code, under the supervision of the superintendent of industrial compliance, and the superintendent shall enforce this chapter and any rules adopted pursuant thereto. Every inspector shall forward to the superintendent a full and complete report of each inspection made of any elevator and shall...

... adopt, amend, and repeal rules exclusively for the issuance, renewal, suspension, and revocation of certificates of competency and certificates of operation, for the conduct of hearings related to these actions, and for the inspection of elevators. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, the superintendent shall not adopt rules relating to construction, maintenance, and repair of elevators.

...ng members, elevator car, shaftways, guides, cables, doors, and gates, safety stops and mechanism, electrical apparatus and wiring, mechanical apparatus, counterweights, and all other appurtenances, in accordance with state laws and rules as are authorized in respect thereto. Where reasonable safety is obtained without complying to the literal requirements of such rules as in cases of practical difficulty or unnecess...

...erating a passenger elevator shall provide a seat for the use of the operator of such elevator. Any person, firm, or corporation operating a passenger elevator may regulate the use of such seats by the operator. At no time shall a person operating a passenger elevator be compelled to stand a longer period of time than two consecutive hours in any working day.

...nce with rules adopted by the superintendent of industrial compliance pursuant to section 4105.12 of the Revised Code.

...ases where any changes or repairs are made which alter its construction of classification, grade or rated lifting capacity, except when made pursuant to a report of an inspector, an application of specifications in duplicate shall be submitted to the division, containing such information, or approval, except in those municipal corporations which maintain their own elevator inspection departments, in which event...

...ter a repair or after an adjudication under section 4105.11 of the Revised Code, or as a result of the operation of section 4105.08 of the Revised Code and is an elevator required to be inspected under this chapter is one hundred twenty dollars plus ten dollars for each floor where the elevator stops. (B) The fee for each attempted inspection, that due to no fault of the general inspector or the division, is not s...

...d Code do not prevent the inspection of elevators by dealers in elevators or elevator equipment. An inspector by or in behalf of such dealer is not a general or special inspector within such sections. Such sections do not affect the rights of municipal corporations under section 715.26 of the Revised Code, except as specifically provided in such sections. Sections 4105.01 to 4105.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code ...

...le a written report with the superintendent of industrial compliance within seventy-two hours after the occurrence of any accident involving such elevator which results in death or bodily injury to any person.

...olation of this section shall be forwarded to the superintendent of industrial compliance, who shall pay them into the state treasury to the credit of the industrial compliance operating fund created in section 121.084 of the Revised Code.

...perintendent or a general inspector of elevators finds that an elevator or a part thereof does not afford reasonable safety as required by section 4105.13 of the Revised Code, the superintendent or the general inspector may seal such elevator and post a notice thereon prohibiting further use of the elevator until the changes or alterations set forth in the notice have been made to the satisfaction of the super...

... have an elevator contractor licensed under Chapter 4785. of the Revised Code ensure that the required tests are performed at intervals in compliance with the ASME A17.1/CSA B44 Appendix N and ASCE 21. All tests shall be performed by an elevator mechanic licensed under Chapter 4785. of the Revised Code. (B) As used in this section, "ASME A17.1," "ASCE 21," and "conveyance" have the same meanings as in section 4785....

...olates section 4105.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.

...ss the contract therefor expressly provides otherwise.

... he will withdraw from the employment relation in the event that he joins, becomes, or remains a member of any labor organization or of any organization of employers, is contrary to public policy and void.

...ers, agents, or employees, it shall be held in addition to any other liability existing by law that any person in the employ of such employer, in any way having power or authority in directing or controlling any other employee of such employer, is not the fellow servant, but superior to such other employee; any person in the employ of such employer in any way having charge or control of employees in any separate bran...

... to in section 4113.03 of the Revised Code receives any personal injury by reason of any defect or unsafe condition in any ways, works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances, or tools, except simple tools, in any way connected with or in any way used in the business of the employer, such employer is deemed to have had knowledge of such defect before and at the time such injury was so sustained, and when the fa...