§ 14-271-109 - Notice to One Call Center -- Exceptions. - Arkansas Statutes

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 by tools manipulated only by human or animal power;

(2) Any form of cultivation for agricultural purposes, digging for postholes on private property, farm ponds, land clearing, or other normal agricultural purposes which are not on a right-of-way of an operator;

(3) Work by a public agency or its contractors on a preengineered project;

(4) The opening of a grave in a cemetery; 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 change of grade or clearing or widening drainage ditches.

(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 complied with.