Lift and Elevator Codes and Standards in HT

Haiti has no lift-specific law. The Code National du Bâtiment d'Haïti (CNBH), led by the MTPTC, was first published in January 2013 (CNBH 2012, taking IRC 2009 and IBC 2009 as references). Its 2025 revision (CNBH 2025), validated by the MTPTC Minister in 2025 with publication in Le Moniteur planned for 2026 (required to make it binding on third parties), makes the International Building Code 2021 the code for all new buildings through Part 1, a Code Application Document: its Chapter 30 'Ascenseurs et systèmes de transport' reads 'IBC s'applique' (vertical and horizontal transport and material-handling systems, plus fire and emergency-responder provisions), and its Chapter 35 makes the standards referenced by the IBC part of the code. Building permits are issued by the municipality after a favourable technical opinion from the MTPTC. After the 2010 earthquake the MTPTC authorised international codes, and its 2011 interim design rules mention lifts only to exclude lift and goods-lift equipment rooms from a live-load category. Workplace safety falls under the Labour Code (Decree of 24 February 1984), which has a chapter on occupational hygiene and safety; its text was not read. The Bureau Haïtien de Normalisation (BHN, under the Ministry of Trade and Industry, set up December 2012) is the standards body; no lift standard from it was found.

Who regulates lifts

Ministère des Travaux Publics, Transports et Communications (MTPTC) for the building code (technical opinion on every building permit, permits issued by municipalities); lift-specific role not confirmed

Periodic inspection

Not found

Installer and maintenance licensing

Not found

Laws, codes and standards

Code du travail (Décret du 24 février 1984) (1984) — Labour Code of Haiti (Decree of 24 February 1984 updating the Labour Code of 12 September 1961)
Mandatory · Decree of 24 February 1984 updating the Labour Code of 12 September 1961, amended by a law of 5 June 2003 · Government of the Republic of Haiti
CNBH 2025 Partie 1 — Document d'application du Code pour l'IBC 2021 (2025) — Haitian National Building Code 2025, Part 1: Code Application Document for the 2021 International Building Code
Voluntary · Validated by the MTPTC Minister in 2025; publication in Le Moniteur planned during 2026, which the code's site says is needed to make it binding on third parties · Ministère des Travaux Publics, Transports et Communications (MTPTC)
MTPTC Règles de calcul intérimaires pour les bâtiments en Haïti (2011-02-15) — Interim design rules for buildings in Haiti: occupancy loads, wind and seismic considerations
Referenced by law · MTPTC interim rules (World Bank funded) following the MTPTC press note of 9 Feb 2010 authorising international codes · MTPTC

Lift associations and bodies

Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MTPTC)
Haitian Bureau of Standards (BHN)

Last verified 2026-10-23. Standards are copyrighted: we list which one applies and its legal status, not its text.