Every person who engages in emergency excavation shall take all necessary and reasonable precaution to avoid or minimize interference with or damage to existing underground facilities in and near the excavation area and shall notify as promptly as possible the owners of underground facilities located in and near the emergency excavation area and the one-call notification system operating in the area in the form and format required by the commission. In the event of any damage to or dislocation of any underground facility caused by the emergency excavation work, the person responsible for the excavation shall immediately notify the owner of the underground facility and the one-call notification system operating in the area in the form and format required by the commission.
History: 1953 Comp., § 12-32-4, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 252, § 4; 1987, ch. 156, § 4; 2011, ch. 103, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2011 amendment, effective June 17, 2011, required persons engaged in an emergency excavation to notify the one-call notification system operating in the area of the excavation that the excavation will occur and any damages to or the relocation of underground facilities.
The 1987 amendment, effective June 19, 1987, substituted "underground facility" for "pipelines and underground utility lines" the three places that phrase appears and made minor changes in language throughout the section.