Chapter 30 — ELEVATORS AND CONVEYING SYSTEMS
Section 3006 — ELEVATOR LOBBIES AND HOISTWAY OPENING PROTECTION
2025 California Building Code (Title 24, Part 2) · 2025 edition · ingested 2026-07-07 · California
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3006.1 General. ¶
3006.1 General. Enclosed elevator lobbies and elevator hoistway door protection shall be provided in accordance with the following: 1. Where elevator hoistway door protection is required by Section 3006.2, such protection shall be provided in accordance with Section 3006.3. 2. Where enclosed elevator lobbies are required for underground buildings, such lobbies shall comply with Section 405.4.3. 3. Where an area of refuge is required and an enclosed elevator lobby is provided to serve as an area of refuge, the enclosed elevator lobby shall comply with Section 1009.6.4. 4. Where fire service…
3006.2 Elevator hoistway door protection required. ¶
3006.2 Elevator hoistway door protection required. Elevator hoistway doors shall be protected in accordance with Section 3006.3 where an elevator hoistway connects more than two stories in any state institution or other state-owned or specified state occupied building regulated by the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and more than three stories for all other buildings. Hoistway opening protec- tion is required to be enclosed within a shaft enclosure in accordance with Section 712.1.1 and any of the following conditions apply: 1. The building is not protected throughout with an automatic…
3006.3 Elevator hoistway door protection. ¶
3006.3 Elevator hoistway door protection. Where Section 3006.2 requires protection of the elevator hoistway doors, the protection shall be provided by one of the following: 1. An enclosed elevator lobby shall be provided at each floor to separate the elevator hoistway doors from each floor with fire partitions in accordance with Section 708. In addition, doors protecting openings in the fire partitions shall comply with Section 716.2.2.1. Penetrations of the fire partitions by ducts and air transfer openings shall be protected as required for corridors in accordance with Section 717.5.4.1. 2.…