Are there regulations governing small residential buildings?
Commercial or Residential? Only commercial type conveyances may be installed in campground structures covered by the commercial building code and common areas of a campground. A conveyance shared by two or more one- or two-family dwellings is considered to be in a common area therefore must be a commercial type conveyance. These conveyances include typical passenger or freight elevators, outdoor inclined elevators (often called “trams”), limited use/limited application (LULA) elevators, escalators and moving walks, dumbwaiters, type B material lifts, vertical platform lifts, inclined platform lifts and stairway chair lifts. One- and two-family dwellings covered by the uniform dwelling code in campgrounds may utilize either commercial type conveyances or residential type conveyances. Regulation of Devices All conveyances in commercial buildings or in common areas, and elevators and dumbwaiters in one- or two-family dwellings are regulated by the elevator safety program in accordance wit