(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, this article applies to the design, construction, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the following equipment:

(a) Hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a car or platform that moves between two or more landings. Such equipment includes elevators and platform lifts, personnel hoists, and dumbwaiters.

(b) Power-driven stairways and walkways for carrying persons between landings. Such equipment includes, but is not limited to, escalators and moving walks.

(c) Automated people movers as defined in ASCE 21.

(2) This article does not apply to the following:

(a) Material hoists;

(b) Manlifts;

(c) Mobile scaffolds, towers, and platforms;

(d) Powered platforms and equipment for exterior and interior maintenance;

(e) Conveyors and related equipment;

(f) Cranes, derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks, and slings;

(g) Industrial trucks within the scope of ASME publication B56;

(h) Items of portable equipment that are not portable escalators;

(i) Tiering or piling machines used to move materials between storage locations that operate entirely within one story;

(j) Equipment for feeding or positioning materials at machine tools, printing presses, and other similar equipment;

(k) Skip or furnace hoists;

(l) Wharf ramps;

(m) Railroad car lifts or dumpers;

(n) Line jacks, false cars, shafters, moving platforms, and similar equipment used by a certified conveyance contractor for installing a conveyance;

(o) Conveyances at facilities regulated by the mine safety and health administration in the United States department of labor, or its successor, pursuant to the "Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977", Pub.L. 91-173, codified at 30 U.S.C. sec. 801 et seq., as amended;

(p) Elevators within the facilities of gas or electric utilities that are not accessible to the public;

(q) A passenger tramway defined in section 25-5-702, C.R.S.;

(r) Conveyances in a single-family residence; or

(s) Stairway chair lifts as defined in ASME A18.1 - 2005.

(3) This article shall not be construed to prohibit a local jurisdiction from regulating conveyances if the local jurisdiction has standards that meet or exceed the standards established by this article.