When it is intended to discontinue the service of an elevator or other hoisting device covered by this Article, the Department shall be so notified by the owner or user. The hoistway doors or entrance shall be permanently boarded up or barricaded. The cables shall be removed and the car and counterweights landed at the bottom of the hoistway. On elevators or devices not suspended by cables. the power must be satisfactorily disconnected. Plunger elevators shall have the liquid line to the plunger disconnected. Prior to placing the hoisting device back into service the Department shall be notified and an inspection made.
SOURCE: GC § 36002.