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2018 Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
70.86 Earthquake standards for construction.
70.86.030 Standards for design and construction.
Universal Citation: WA Rev Code § 70.86.030 (2018)
RCW 70.86.030 Standards for design and construction.
Structural frames, exterior walls, and all appendages of the buildings described in RCW 70.86.020, whose collapse will endanger life and property shall be designed and constructed to withstand horizontal forces from any direction of not less than the following fractions of the weight of the structure and its parts acting at the centers of gravity:
Western Washington 0.05.
[ 1955 c 278 ยง 3.]
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