Sen. Don Harmon
Filed: 3/30/2009
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 149
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 149 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Elevator Safety and Regulation Act is | ||||||
5 | amended by changing Sections 25 and 125 as follows:
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6 | (225 ILCS 312/25)
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7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2013)
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8 | Sec. 25. Elevator Safety Review Board.
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9 | (a) There is hereby created within the Office of the State | ||||||
10 | Fire Marshal
the Elevator Safety Review Board, consisting of 16 | ||||||
11 | 14 members. The Administrator
shall appoint 3 members who shall | ||||||
12 | be representatives
of fire
service communities. The Governor | ||||||
13 | shall appoint the remaining 13 11 members of
the Board as | ||||||
14 | follows: one representative from a major elevator | ||||||
15 | manufacturing
company or its authorized representative; one | ||||||
16 | representative from an elevator
servicing company; one |
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1 | representative of the architectural design
profession; one | ||||||
2 | representative of the general public; one representative of an | ||||||
3 | advocacy group for people with physical disabilities; one | ||||||
4 | representative of an advocacy group for senior citizens the | ||||||
5 | senior citizen population ; one representative
of a | ||||||
6 | municipality in this State with a population under 25,000; one
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7 | representative of a municipality in this State with a | ||||||
8 | population of 25,000 or
over but under 50,000; one | ||||||
9 | representative of a municipality in this State with
a | ||||||
10 | population of 50,000 or over but under 500,000 one
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11 | representative of an advocacy group for condominium owners;
one | ||||||
12 | representative of institute of higher education that
operates | ||||||
13 | an in-house elevator maintenance program ; one representative | ||||||
14 | of a
building owner or manager; and one representative of labor | ||||||
15 | involved in the
installation, maintenance, and repair of | ||||||
16 | elevators.
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17 | (b) The members constituting the Board shall be appointed | ||||||
18 | for initial terms
as follows:
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19 | (1) Of the members appointed by the Administrator, 2 | ||||||
20 | shall serve
for a term of 2 years, and one for a term of 4 | ||||||
21 | years.
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22 | (2) Of the members appointed by the Governor, 2 shall | ||||||
23 | serve for a term
of one year, 2 for terms of 2 years, 2 for | ||||||
24 | terms of 3 years, and 4 for terms of
4 years. The | ||||||
25 | representative of the advocacy group for senior
citizens | ||||||
26 | senior citizen population shall serve an initial term of 4 |
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1 | years. The representative of an advocacy
group for | ||||||
2 | condominium owners and the representative of
institute of | ||||||
3 | higher education that operates an in-house
elevator | ||||||
4 | maintenance program shall both serve an initial
term of 4 | ||||||
5 | years.
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6 | At the expiration of their initial terms of office, the | ||||||
7 | members or their
successors shall be appointed for terms of 4 | ||||||
8 | years each. Upon the expiration
of a member's term of office, | ||||||
9 | the officer who appointed
that member shall reappoint that | ||||||
10 | member or appoint a successor who is a
representative of the | ||||||
11 | same interests with which his or her predecessor was
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12 | identified. The Administrator and the Governor may at any time | ||||||
13 | remove any
of their respective appointees for inefficiency or | ||||||
14 | neglect of duty in office.
Upon the death or incapacity of a | ||||||
15 | member, the officer who appointed that member
shall fill the | ||||||
16 | vacancy for the remainder of the vacated term by appointing a
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17 | member who is a representative of the same interests with which | ||||||
18 | his or her
predecessor was identified. The members shall serve | ||||||
19 | without salary, but shall
receive from the State expenses | ||||||
20 | necessarily incurred by them in performance
of their duties. | ||||||
21 | The Governor shall appoint one of the members to serve as
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22 | chairperson. The chairperson shall be the deciding vote in the | ||||||
23 | event of a tie
vote.
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24 | (Source: P.A. 94-698, eff. 11-22-05; 95-573, eff. 8-31-07.)
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25 | (225 ILCS 312/125)
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1 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2013)
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2 | Sec. 125. State law, code, or regulation; rule compliance. | ||||||
3 | Whenever a provision in this
Act is found to be inconsistent | ||||||
4 | with any provision of another applicable State
law, code, or
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5 | rule, the State law shall prevail. This Act, unless | ||||||
6 | specifically
stated otherwise, is
not intended to establish | ||||||
7 | more stringent or more restrictive standards than
standards set
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8 | forth in other applicable State laws. | ||||||
9 | Any rule adopted under this Act that requires compliance | ||||||
10 | specifically beginning in 2009 and any rule adopted under this | ||||||
11 | Act that requires compliance specifically beginning in 2011 | ||||||
12 | shall be deemed to require compliance beginning in 2013 instead | ||||||
13 | of 2009 or 2011.
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14 | Nothwithstanding anything else in this Section, compliance | ||||||
15 | with upgrade code requirements, pursuant to ASME A17.3, that | ||||||
16 | relate to door restrictors, emergency battery pack lights and | ||||||
17 | alarms, phase reversal protection, emergency phones, reopening | ||||||
18 | devices, pit ladders, pit stop switches, or pit lights and | ||||||
19 | ground fault circuit interrupters shall not be required to be | ||||||
20 | completed prior to January 1, 2013. Nothwithstanding anything | ||||||
21 | else in this Section, compliance with upgrade code | ||||||
22 | requirements, pursuant to ASME A17.3, that relate to fire | ||||||
23 | service recall, cylinder replacement, car safeties, or plunger | ||||||
24 | grippers shall not be required to be completed prior to January | ||||||
25 | 1, 2018. | ||||||
26 | (Source: P.A. 95-767, eff. 7-29-08.)
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1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.".
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