Section 27-701. Allowable lateral load  


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  • For plumb piles fully embedded in the
      ground, the lateral load applied at the top of the pile shall not exceed
      one  ton per pile unless it has been demonstrated by tests that the pile
      will resist a lateral load of two  hundred  per  cent  of  the  proposed
      working  lateral  load without lateral movement of more than one inch at
      the ground level and will  resist  the  proposed  working  lateral  load
      without  a  movement of more than three-eighths of an inch at the ground
      level. For piles projecting above the ground level the shear and bending
      stresses computed on the basis of cantilever action to a level  of  five
      feet  below grade in soils of class 8-65 or better and to ten feet below
      grade in poorer soils shall not exceed the  allowable  values  for  like
      materials  established in subchapter ten of this chapter. The provisions
      of subdivision (f)  of  section  27-700  of  this  article  relating  to
      combination of loads shall apply.