As used in this article:
(a) “Construction elevator” includes any means used to hoist persons or material of any kind on a building under course of construction, when operated by any power other than muscular power.
(b) “Building” includes structures of all kinds during the course of construction, regardless of the purposes for which they are intended and whether such construction be below or above the level of the ground.
(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)