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14-271-112. Notice of intent to excavate or demolish.
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14-271-112. Notice of intent to excavate or demolish.
(a) Except as provided in § 14-271-109, no person may engage in excavation or demolition activities without having first notified the One Call Center in accordance with the provisions listed in this section.
(b)(1) Each person responsible for any excavation or demolition operation shall serve written or telephonic notice of intent to excavate or demolish at least two (2), but not more than ten (10), full working days before commencing this activity.
(2) The notice of intent shall be delivered to the One Call Center.
(3)(A) The notice given by this section shall be effective for a period of twenty (20) working days from the date that the notice was given.
(B) If the work to be performed is not completed within this period, or if the location markings have been removed or are no longer visible, the person engaging in the demolition or excavation activity shall reinitiate the notice procedure set forth in this section.
(c) The written or telephonic notice of intent required by subsection (b) of this section shall contain the name of the person notifying the One Call Center, the name, address, and telephone number of the person responsible for the excavation or demolition, the starting date, anticipated duration and type of excavation or demolition operation to be conducted, the specific location of the proposed excavation or demolition, and whether or not explosives are anticipated to be used.
(d) The One Call Center shall, as soon as practicable after receiving such notice, provide persons giving notice of an intention to engage in an excavation activity the names of any member operators of underground facilities to whom the notice will be transmitted.
(e)(1) An adequate record of notifications to the O
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-271-112
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14-271-112. Notice of intent to excavate or demolish.
(a) Except as provided in § 14-271-109, no person may engage in excavation or demolition activities without having first notified the One Call Center in accordance with the provisions listed in this section.
(b)(1) Each person responsible for any excavation or demolition operation shall serve written or telephonic notice of intent to excavate or demolish at least two (2), but not more than ten (10), full working days before commencing this activity.
(2) The notice of intent shall be delivered to the One Call Center.
(3)(A) The notice given by this section shall be effective for a period of twenty (20) working days from the date that the notice was given.
(B) If the work to be performed is not completed within this period, or if the location markings have been removed or are no longer visible, the person engaging in the demolition or excavation activity shall reinitiate the notice procedure set forth in this section.
(c) The written or telephonic notice of intent required by subsection (b) of this section shall contain the name of the person notifying the One Call Center, the name, address, and telephone number of the person responsible for the excavation or demolition, the starting date, anticipated duration and type of excavation or demolition operation to be conducted, the specific location of the proposed excavation or demolition, and whether or not explosives are anticipated to be used.
(d) The One Call Center shall, as soon as practicable after receiving such notice, provide persons giving notice of an intention to engage in an excavation activity the names of any member operators of underground facilities to whom the notice will be transmitted.
(e)(1) An adequate record of notifications to the One Call Center shall be maintained by the One Call Center.
(2) A copy of the record shall be furnished to the persons giving notice of intent to excavate or demolish if requested.
(3) The records shall be maintained by the One Call Center for at least three (3) years.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to obligate the One Call Center to transmit a notice of intent to excavate for any operator that is not a member of the One Call Center.
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14-271-109. Notice to One Call Center — Exceptions.
(a) Compliance with notice requirements of § 14-271-112 is not required for:
(1) The moving of earth that is not on a right-of-way or within an easement of an operator by tools manipulated only by human or animal power;
(2) The moving of earth by an operator that is on a right-of-way or within an easement of the operator by tools only manipulated by human power and exclusively for the purposes of system maintenance and leak detection;
(3) Any agricultural purposes, including any form of cultivation for agricultural purposes, digging for postholes on private property, construction and maintenance of farm ponds, land clearing, or other normal agricultural purposes that are not on a right-of-way of an operator;
(4) The opening of a grave in a cemetery that is not on a right-of-way of an operator; or
(5) Routine road work and general maintenance as performed in the right-of-way by state or county maintenance departments, but excluding any work or maintenance involving any demolition or excavation.
(b)(1) Compliance with notice requirements of § 14-271-112 is not required of persons responsible for repair or restoration of service, or to ameliorate an imminent danger to life, health, property, or public safety.
(2) However, those persons shall give, as soon as practicable, oral notice of the emergency excavation or demolition to the One Call Center and request emergency assistance from the One Call Center in locating and providing immediate protection to its underground facilities.
(3) An imminent danger to life, health, property, or public safety exists whenever there is a substantial likelihood that loss of life, health, or property will result before the procedures under § 14-271-112 can be fully compli
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-271-109
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-271-109. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.