Spokane Municipal Code

Title 08 Taxation and Revenue

Chapter 08.02 Fees and Charges

Article III. Building and Construction Permits

Section 08.02.033 Elevator Code

1. New Installation Permit Fees – permit fee includes one new installation inspection.

1. 1. Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Walks.

1. Valuation of one dollar to five thousand dollars:  Two hundred fifty dollars.

2. Valuation over five thousand dollars:  Two hundred fifty dollars plus four dollars for each one thousand dollars in valuation over five thousand dollars.

1. 2. Stair climbers, platform lifts: Eighty eight-dollars (Plan Review Fees not required.)

1. 3. Dumbwaiters, material lifts: One hundred seventy-seven dollars.

1. 4. Temporary Personnel Hoist (construction lift): Two hundred fifty dollars (includes initial semiannual operating permit).

2. Annual Operating Permit Fees.

1. Hydraulic elevators:  One hundred seventy-seven dollars plus twenty-two dollars each additional stop over two.

2. Cable elevators:  Three hundred fifty-three dollars plus twenty-two dollars each additional stop over two.

3. Escalators and Moving Walks:  Three hundred fifty-three dollars.

4. Dumbwaiters, platform lifts, stair climbers, material lifts:  Eighty-eight dollars.

3. Alterations /Repairs/Modernizations/Permit Fees – All Conveyances.

1. 1. Valuation of one dollar to five thousand dollars:  Two hundred fifty dollars.

1. 2. Valuation over five thousand dollars:  Permit fee is two hundred fifty dollars plus four dollars for each one thousand dollars in valuation over five thousand dollars.

4. In addition to the above fees, the processing fee for each permit is twenty-five dollars.  

5. Reinspections.

The fee for reinspections for work that was not ready, or corrections previously identified, or site not accessible is:

1. 1. Hydraulic elevators:  Eighty-eight dollars plus twenty-two dollars per stop over two.

1. 2. Electric elevators:  One hundred seventy-seven dollars plus twenty-two dollars per stop over two.

1. 3. All others:  Seventy-five dollars.

6. Inspections Outside Normal Inspector Working Hours.

The fee for inspections outside normal inspector working hours is three hundred fifty-three dollars and is payable at the time the request is made and before an inspection can be scheduled.

7. Work Done Without Permit Fees.

Where work has commenced without first obtaining the required permit(s), a “work- without-permit penalty fee” equal to the required permit fee will be added to the permit application and must be paid prior to the issuance of the permit(s). 

8. Uncorrected Deficiencies.

The fee for operating a conveyance with uncorrected deficiencies is one hundred seventy-seven dollars. Fees will be assessed at the following intervals from the date of inspection:

1. 1. Ninety days,

1. 2. One hundred twenty days, and

1. 3. One hundred fifty days.

1. Document replacement fee:  Twenty-five dollars.

10. Temporary Personnel Hoist (construction lift) semiannual inspection and operator’s permit renewal.

Following a successful semi-annual inspection, temporary personnel hoists are eligible for a renewal of a semi-annual operator’s permit.

1. 1. Semiannual inspections or jump inspection: One hundred seventy-seven dollars.

1. 2. Semiannual Operating Permit: One hundred seventy-seven dollars.

11. Temporary operating permit fee:  One hundred dollars plus fifteen dollars per stop over two.

12. Plans review fees for new installations, major alterations:  Eighty-eight dollars.

13. Variance request fees with site visit:  One hundred seventy-seven dollars plus eighty-eight dollars per hour after two hours.

14. Variance request fees via desk evaluation only and not requiring a site visit:  Eighty-eight dollars.

15. Technical advice site visit fee:  One hundred seventy-seven dollars plus eighty-eight dollars per hour after two hours.

16. Decommissioning of conveyance fee:  One hundred seventy-seven dollars.

17. Re-commissioning fee of conveyance fee:  One hundred seventy-seven dollars plus eighty-eight dollars per hour after two hours.

18. Operating a Conveyance without an Operator’s Permit.

1. Failure to renew an operator’s permit within thirty days of due date:  A penalty fee of one hundred sixty-four dollars will be added to the operating permit fee and paid prior to issuing an operator’s permit.

2. If an operator’s permit has lapsed one hundred twenty days or more, a conveyance may be removed from service by the inspector.

19. Annual Fee Adjustment. 

Effective January 1, 2012, and the first of January of each year thereafter, the various elevator code fees set forth above shall be adjusted by the City of Spokane building official for an amount equal to the consumer price index adjustment of the previous July - July U.S. All City Average (CPI-U and CPI-W). The newly determined amount shall be rounded up to the nearest dollar. In addition, the adjusted fees shall be presented to the city council for approval and a copy of the approved fees filed with the city clerk and city building official before becoming effective.

Date Passed: Monday, November 26, 2018

Effective Date: Thursday, January 3, 2019

ORD C35699 Section 8