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There are no amended sections in this chapter.
(Adopted by the State of Oregon as part of the Oregon Structural Specialty Code.)
Patio covers shall be permitted to be detached from or attached to dwelling units. Patio covers shall be used only for recreational, outdoor living purposes and not as carports, garages, storage rooms or habitable rooms.
Openings shall be permitted to be enclosed with insect
screening, approved translucent or transparent plastic not
more that 0.125 inch (3.2 mm) in thickness, glass conforming
to the provisions of Chapter 24 or any combination of the
foregoing.
The following words and terms shall, for the purposes of this appendix, have the
meaning shown herein.
PATIO COVERS.
One-story structures not exceeding 12
feet (3657 mm) in height. Enclosure walls shall be permitted
to be of any configuration, provided the open or glazed area
of the longer wall and one additional wall is equal to at least
65 percent of the area below a minimum of 6 feet 8 inches
(2032 mm) of each wall, measured from the floor.
Exterior openings
required for light and ventilation shall be permitted to open into a patio structure. However, the patio structure shall be unenclosed if such openings are serving as emergency egress or rescue openings from sleeping rooms. Where such exterior openings serve as an exit from the dwelling unit, the patio structure, unless unenclosed, shall be provided with exits conforming to the provision of Chapter 10.
Patio covers shall be designed and constructed to sustain, within the stress limits of this code, all dead loads plus a minimum vertical live load of 10 pounds per square foot (0.48 kN/m2) except that snow loads shall be used where such snow loads exceed this minimum. Such patio covers shall be designed to resist the minimum wind and seismic loads set forth in this code.
In areas with a frost depth of zero, a patio cover shall be permitted to be supported on a concrete slab on grade without footings, provided the slab conforms to the provisions of Chapter 19 of this code, is not less than 31/2 inches (89 mm) thick and further provided that the columns do not support loads in excess of 750 pounds (3.36 kN) per column.
