{"id":327,"date":"2016-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/mandatory-garage-door-safety-features\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:09:14","slug":"mandatory-garage-door-safety-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/mandatory-garage-door-safety-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Garage Door Safety Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/defective-products\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Defective Products<\/a> | April 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>If you have a garage door that was installed in the last two decades, and if it has an automatic, motorized opening system, it probably has a light sensor and a pressure sensor. When something breaks the light beam, if the door is coming down, it stops and reverses direction. The same is true if it encounters unexpected pressure before it is all the way down.<\/p>\n<p>These safety features are now mandatory and required by law. This has not always been the case, though, as the laws saying they must be used were instituted in 1992. This happened after a landmark court case in which the safety and design of these doors was called into question. The safety features had been options before, meaning people had to pay extra to get them, but the new laws said they had to be used on all doors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/mandatory-garage-door-safety-features\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Mandatory Garage Door Safety Features\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defective Products | April 15, 2016 If you have a garage door that was installed in the last two decades, and if it has an automatic, motorized opening system, it probably has a light sensor and a pressure sensor. 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