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4.2.3.1 — Wood

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(1) Wood used in foundations or in support of soil or rock shall conform to the appropriate requirements of Subsection 4.3.1.

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foundation

means a system or arrangement of foundation units through which the loads from a building are transferred to supporting soil or rock.

rock

means a portion of the earth’s crust that is consolidated, coherent and relatively hard and that is a naturally formed, solidly bonded, mass of mineral matter that cannot readily be broken by hand.

soil

means , except for the purposes of Part 8 of Division B, a portion of the earth’s crust that is fragmentary or such that individual particles of a dried sample may be readily separated by agitation in water, and includes boulders, cobbles, gravel, sand, silt, clay and organic matter.

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