Section 27-559. Columns in parking areas  


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  • Unless specially protected, columns
      in  parking areas subject to impact of moving vehicles shall be designed
      to resist the lateral  load  due  to  impact  and  this  load  shall  be
      considered a load of infrequent occurrence. For passenger vehicles, this
      lateral  load  shall be taken as a minimum of twenty-five hundred pounds
      applied  at  least  twenty-one  inches  above  the  roadway  and  acting
      simultaneously with other design loads.