elevator regulation at a glance
- Regulator
- Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), Division of Hotels and Restaurants, Bureau of Elevator Safety
- Statute
- Chapter 399, Florida Statutes; Rule Chapter 61C-5, Florida Administrative Code
- Who inspects
- Certified private third-party inspectors; a current, satisfactory inspection is required for the initial certificate and each annual renewal
- Frequency
- Annual: every non-exempt conveyance must pass an inspection with no violations each year
- Certificate
- Certificate of operation per conveyance, $75 per year; all certificates expire July 31; $50 late fee from August 1; ownership change filed within 30 days
- Local programs
- Contracted jurisdictions (including Miami-Dade and Broward counties) run their own permitting and inspection programs
Elevator compliance in Orlando
The Orlando market is hospitality first: International Drive’s hotel corridor, the Orange County Convention Center, resort properties around the theme parks, and Orlando International Airport’s escalators and moving walks. Behind that sit AdventHealth and Orlando Health hospital campuses, the University of Central Florida, a growing downtown office and residential core, and Lake Nona’s medical city.
DBPR’s annual-inspection and July 31 renewal rules apply to all of it. Resorts and convention facilities run large unit counts with heavy duty cycles, which means more wear items, more escalator findings and a maintenance contract whose exclusions matter a great deal. Hotel owners inherit those contracts with the property and rarely re-read them.
How we help Orlando owners and operators
Elevator Compliance Group is an independent, QEI-licensed inspection and consulting firm. We do not sell maintenance, repairs or modernization, so our work in Orlando is only for the owner: inspections and inspection witnessing, review of inspection reports and violations, deficiency tracking to verified correction, maintenance contract review, modernization planning and owner representation when the contractor and the inspector disagree.
- Escalator and moving-walk inspection oversight for convention, airport and resort operators
- Annual DBPR inspections sequenced around peak occupancy
- Maintenance contract review and performance audits for large hotel unit counts
- Modernization planning for 1980s and 1990s resort equipment
- Compliance programs for hospital campuses with accreditation documentation
Nearby communities
Kissimmee, Lake Buena Vista, Winter Park, Lake Nona, Sanford, Altamonte Springs and Daytona Beach.
Regulatory summary based on the agency sources below; requirements change, so confirm current rules with the agency or with us before relying on them.