675 IAC 14-4.4-117 Section M1307.3.1; protection from impact

Sec. 117. Delete the text of SECTION M1307.3.1 and substitute to read as follows: Building appliances and their appurtenances shall be installed outside the intended vehicle travel path. Vehicle travel path shall be determined by the garage door rough opening width. When building appliances and their appurtenances cannot be installed outside the vehicle travel path due to design and construction restraints, such appliances shall be protected by one of the following methods: 1. Installed in an adjacent but separate equipment room within the garage; 2. Installed in an adjacent equipment alcove within the garage that has a raised floor or platform that is at least twenty-four (24) inches higher than the garage floor; 3. Install bollards that are a minimum three (3) inch diameter schedule forty (40) steel pipe embedded a minimum of eighteen (18) inches below grade and at least twenty-four (24) inches above the garage floor with pipe cap; 4. Install bollards that are a minimum three (3) inch diameter schedule 40 steel pipe with a welded eight (8) inches by eight (8) inches by one-quarter (1/4) inch base plate anchored to the garage floor slab using one-half (1/2) inch wedge anchors or equivalent with a minimum embedment of two and one-fourth (2 1/4) inches. Height of bollard to be at least twenty-four (24) inches above garage floor with pipe cap; or 5. Install a minimum seventy-two (72) inches long by six (6) inches wide by four (4) inches high bumper curb that is anchored to the concrete floor.