56-265.22 - Duties of notification center upon notification by person intending to excavate; record of notification made by telephone required. - Virginia Statutes

§ 56-265.22. Duties of notification center upon notification by personintending to excavate; record of notification made by telephone required.

A. The notification center shall, upon receiving notice by a person, notifyall member operators whose underground lines are located in the area of theproposed project, excavation or demolition. The notification center shallalso indicate the names of those operators being notified to the personproviding notice.

B. If the notification required by this chapter is made by telephone, arecord of such notification shall be maintained by the operators ornotification center notified to document compliance with the requirements ofthis chapter, and such records shall be maintained in compliance with theapplicable statute of limitations.

C. The notification center shall notify excavators, within the time frameallowed by the law to mark underground utility lines, of any responses placedon the excavator-operator information exchange system by a locator. Suchnotification shall occur by facsimile or other mutually acceptable means ofautomatically transmitting and receiving this information.

If the excavator cannot provide the notification center with a facsimilenumber or other mutually acceptable means of automatically transmitting andreceiving this information, it shall be the excavator's responsibility tocontact the excavator-operator information exchange system after the periodallowed by law to mark underground facilities and prior to commencingexcavation in order to determine if any responses to the notice have beenrecorded.

(1979, c. 291; 1994, c. 890; 2002, c. 841.)