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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2585

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 2585  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.  The Illinois Underground Utility Facilities
 5    Damage Prevention Act is amended by changing Sections 2.8, 9,
 6    10, and 11 and adding Section 2.9 as follows:

 7        (220 ILCS 50/2.8)
 8        Sec. 2.8.  Approximate location.  "Approximate  location"
 9    means the depth of the facility plus 8 inches above and below
10    the facility in a strip of land at least 3 feet wide, but not
11    wider  than  the  width  of  the underground facility or CATS
12    facility plus 1.5 feet on either side of the facility.
13    (Source: P.A. 92-179, eff. 7-1-02.)

14        (220 ILCS 50/2.9 new)
15        Sec.  2.9.  Designer.   "Designer"   means   any   person
16    licensed   under   the   laws   of  this  State  to  practice
17    professional engineering, as defined in the Professional  and
18    Engineering  Practice  Act  of  1989  or  its  successor Act.
19    "Designer" also means any entity or person licensed under the
20    laws of this State to practice structural  engineering  under
21    the  Structural  Engineering  Practice  Act  of  1989  or its
 
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 1    successor Act.

 2        (220 ILCS 50/9) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1609)
 3        Sec. 9.  Failure to comply with Act.
 4        (a)  When it  is  shown  by  competent  evidence  in  any
 5    arbitration   action   for  damages  to  underground  utility
 6    facilities or CATS facilities that such damages resulted from
 7    excavation or demolition and that the person engaged in  such
 8    excavation  or demolition willfully failed to comply with the
 9    provisions of this Act, that person  shall  be  deemed  prima
10    facie  guilty  of  negligence.  When it is shown by competent
11    evidence in any arbitration  action  for  recovery  of  costs
12    incurred  to  special  districts or units of local government
13    responding to utility facility damage, lost profit, downtime,
14    including labor or equipment, or damages to persons, material
15    or equipment brought by  persons  undertaking  excavation  or
16    demolition  acting  in compliance with the provisions of this
17    Act that such damages resulted from the  willful  failure  of
18    owners  and  operators  of  underground  facilities  or  CATS
19    facilities  to  comply with the provisions of this Act, those
20    owners and operators shall be deemed prima  facie  guilty  of
21    negligence.
22        (b)  If  a dispute arises out of or relates to the breach
23    of duties imposed by this Act, the  persons  engaged  in  the
24    excavation  or  demolition  and  the  owners and operators of
25    underground  utility  facilities  or  CATS  facilities  shall
26    submit the dispute to binding arbitration administered by the
27    American  Arbitration  Association  under  its   construction
28    industry rules.  The prevailing party in such a dispute shall
29    be  entitled  to  recover,  in  addition  to  costs otherwise
30    recoverable, its reasonable attorney's fees incurred.
31    (Source: P.A. 86-674.)

32        (220 ILCS 50/10) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1610)
 
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 1        Sec. 10.  Record of notice; marking of facilities.   Upon
 2    notice  by  the person engaged in excavation or demolition or
 3    by  any  designer  engaged  in  the  planning,   design,   or
 4    construction   of   any   public  infrastructure  improvement
 5    project, the person owning or operating  underground  utility
 6    facilities  or  CATS  facilities in or near the excavation or
 7    demolition area shall cause a written record to  be  made  of
 8    the  notice  and  shall  mark,  within  48  hours  (excluding
 9    Saturdays,  Sundays  and  holidays) of receipt of notice, the
10    approximate locations of such facilities so as to enable  the
11    person excavating or demolishing to establish the location of
12    the underground utility facilities or CATS facilities.
13        All persons subject to the requirements of this Act shall
14    plan  and  conduct  their  work  consistent  with  reasonable
15    business   practices.   Conditions   may   exist   making  it
16    unreasonable to request that locations be  marked  within  48
17    hours.  It is unreasonable to request owners and operators of
18    underground utility facilities and CATS facilities to  locate
19    all of their facilities in an affected area upon short notice
20    in  advance  of a large or extensive nonemergency project, or
21    to request  extensive  locates  in  excess  of  a  reasonable
22    excavation or demolition work schedule, or to request locates
23    under  conditions where a repeat request is likely to be made
24    because of the passage of time  or  adverse  job  conditions.
25    Owners  and  operators  of underground utility facilities and
26    CATS   facilities   must   reasonably   anticipate   seasonal
27    fluctuations in the  number  of  locate  requests  and  staff
28    accordingly.
29        If  a  person  owning  or  operating  underground utility
30    facilities or CATS facilities receives a  notice  under  this
31    Section  but  does not own or operate any underground utility
32    facilities or CATS facilities within the proposed  excavation
33    or  demolition  area  described  in  the notice, that person,
34    within 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and  holidays)
 
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 1    after  receipt  of  the  notice,  shall  so notify the person
 2    engaged in excavation or demolition who initiated the notice,
 3    unless the person who initiated the notice  expressly  waives
 4    the  right  to  be  notified  that  no facilities are located
 5    within the excavation or demolition area.   The  notification
 6    by the owner or operator of underground utility facilities or
 7    CATS  facilities  to  the  person  engaged  in  excavation or
 8    demolition  may  be  provided  in   any   reasonable   manner
 9    including, but not limited to, notification in any one of the
10    following  ways:  by  face-to-face communication; by phone or
11    phone message; by facsimile; by posting in the excavation  or
12    demolition  area;  or by marking the excavation or demolition
13    area.  The  owner  or  operator  of  those   facilities   has
14    discharged  the  owner's  or operator's obligation to provide
15    notice under this Section if the owner or  operator  attempts
16    to provide notice by telephone or by facsimile, if the person
17    has  supplied  a  facsimile  number,  but  is unable to do so
18    because the person engaged in the  excavation  or  demolition
19    does  not  answer  his  or  her telephone or does not have an
20    answering  machine  or  answering  service  to  receive   the
21    telephone  call  or  does  not  have  a  facsimile machine in
22    operation to receive  the  facsimile  transmission.   If  the
23    owner  or operator attempts to provide notice by telephone or
24    by facsimile but receives a busy signal, that  attempt  shall
25    not   serve  to  discharge  the  owner  or  operator  of  the
26    obligation to provide notice under this Section.
27        A  person  engaged  in  excavation  or   demolition   may
28    expressly  waive  the right to notification from the owner or
29    operator of underground utility facilities or CATS facilities
30    that the owner or operator has no facilities located  in  the
31    proposed  excavation or demolition area.  Waiver of notice is
32    only permissible in  the  case  of  regular  or  nonemergency
33    locate  requests.  The waiver must be made at the time of the
34    notice to the State-Wide One-Call Notice  System.   A  waiver
 
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 1    made  under this Section is not admissible as evidence in any
 2    criminal or civil action that may arise out of, or is in  any
 3    way  related  to,  the  excavation  or demolition that is the
 4    subject of the waiver.
 5        For  the  purposes  of  this  Act,  underground  facility
 6    operators may utilize a combination  of  flags,  stakes,  and
 7    paint  when  possible on non-paved surfaces and when dig site
 8    and seasonal conditions warrant.  If the approximate location
 9    of an underground utility facility or CATS facility is marked
10    with stakes or other  physical  means,  the  following  color
11    coding shall be employed:
12        Utility or Community Antenna       Identification Color
13        Television Systems and Type
14        of Product

15    Electric Power, Distribution and
16        Transmission...................... Safety Red
17    Municipal Electric Systems............ Safety Red
18    Gas Distribution and Transmission..... High Visibility
19                                           Safety Yellow
20    Oil Distribution and Transmission..... High Visibility
21                                           Safety Yellow
22    Telephone and Telegraph Systems....... Safety Alert Orange
23    Community Antenna Television Systems.. Safety Alert Orange
24    Water Systems......................... Safety
25                                           Precaution Blue
26    Sewer Systems......................... Safety Green
27    Non-potable Water and Slurry Lines.... Safety Purple
28    Temporary Survey...................... Safety Pink
29    Proposed Excavation................... Safety White
30    (Source: P.A. 92-179, eff. 7-1-02.)

31        (220 ILCS 50/11) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1611)
32        Sec. 11.  Penalties; liability; fund.
33        (a)  Every  person  who,  while engaging in excavation or
 
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 1    demolition, wilfully fails to comply with the Act by  failing
 2    to  provide  the  notice  to  the  owners or operators of the
 3    underground facilities or CATS facility near  the  excavation
 4    or  demolition  area  through  the State-Wide One-Call Notice
 5    System as required by Section 4 of this Act shall be  subject
 6    to  a  penalty  of up to $5,000 for each separate offense and
 7    shall be liable for  the  damage  caused  to  the  owners  or
 8    operators of the facility.
 9        (b)  Every  person  who,  while engaging in excavation or
10    demolition,  has  provided  the  notice  to  the  owners   or
11    operators  of  the  underground  utility  facilities  or CATS
12    facilities in and near  the  excavation  or  demolition  area
13    through  the State-Wide One-Call Notice System as required by
14    Section 4 of this Act, but otherwise wilfully fails to comply
15    with this Act, shall be subject to a penalty of up to  $2,500
16    for  each separate offense and shall be liable for the damage
17    caused to the owners or operators of the facility.
18        (c)  Every person who, while engaging  in  excavation  or
19    demolition,   has  provided  the  notice  to  the  owners  or
20    operators of  the  underground  utility  facilities  or  CATS
21    facilities  in  and  near  the  excavation or demolition area
22    through the State-Wide One-Call Notice System as required  by
23    Section   4   of   this  Act,  but  otherwise,  while  acting
24    reasonably, damages any  underground  utility  facilities  or
25    CATS facilities, shall not be subject to a penalty, but shall
26    be liable for the damage caused to the owners or operators of
27    the  facility  provided  the  underground utility facility or
28    CATS facility is properly  marked as provided in  Section  10
29    of this Act.
30        (d)  Every  person  who,  while engaging in excavation or
31    demolition, provides notice to the owners or operators of the
32    underground utility facilities or CATS facilities through the
33    State-Wide One-Call Notice  System  as  an  emergency  locate
34    request  and  the  locate  request is not an emergency locate
 
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 1    request as defined in  Section  2.6  of  this  Act  shall  be
 2    subject  to  a  penalty  of  up  to  $2,500 for each separate
 3    offense.
 4        (e)  Owners  and   operators   of   underground   utility
 5    facilities  or  CATS  facilities  who wilfully fail to comply
 6    with this Act by  a  failure  to  mark  the  location  of  an
 7    underground utility or CATS facility, after being notified of
 8    planned  excavation  or  demolition  through  the  State-Wide
 9    One-Call  Notice  System, shall be subject to a penalty of up
10    to $5,000  for  each  separate  offense  resulting  from  the
11    failure  to  mark  an  underground  utility  facility or CATS
12    facility.
13        (f)  As provided in Section 3 of this Act, all owners  or
14    operators   of   underground   utility   facilities  or  CATS
15    facilities who fail to join the  State-Wide  One-Call  Notice
16    System  by  January  1, 2003 shall be subject to a penalty of
17    $100 per day for each separate offense. Every day an owner or
18    operator fails to join the State-Wide One-Call Notice  System
19    is a separate offense.  This subsection (f) does not apply to
20    utilities operating facilities or CATS facilities exclusively
21    within  the boundaries of a municipality with a population of
22    at least 1,000,000 persons.
23        (g)  No  owner  or  operator   of   underground   utility
24    facilities  or  CATS facilities shall be subject to a penalty
25    where a delay in marking or a failure  to  mark  or  properly
26    mark  the location of an underground utility or CATS facility
27    is caused by conditions beyond the reasonable control of such
28    owner or operator.
29        (h)  Any person who is neither  an  agent,  employee,  or
30    authorized  locating  contractor  of the owner or operator of
31    the underground utility facility  or  CATS  facility  nor  an
32    excavator  involved  in  the excavation activity who removes,
33    alters, or otherwise damages markings, flags, or stakes  used
34    to  mark  the  location  of  an  underground  utility or CATS
 
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 1    facility other than during the course of the  excavation  for
 2    which  the  markings  were  made  or before completion of the
 3    project shall be subject to a penalty up to $1,000  for  each
 4    separate offense.
 5        (i)  The  excavator  shall exercise due care at all times
 6    to  protect   underground   utility   facilities   and   CATS
 7    facilities.   If,   after  proper  notification  through  the
 8    State-Wide One-Call Notice System and  upon  arrival  at  the
 9    site  of  a proposed excavation, the excavator observes clear
10    evidence of the presence  of  an  unmarked  utility  or  CATS
11    facility   in  the  area  of  the  proposed  excavation,  the
12    excavator shall not begin excavating until 2 hours  after  an
13    additional  call  is  made  to the State-Wide One-Call Notice
14    System for the area. The operator  of  the  utility  or  CATS
15    facility shall respond within 2 hours of the excavator's call
16    to the State-Wide One-Call Notice System.
17        (j)  The  Illinois  Commerce  Commission  shall  have the
18    power and jurisdiction to, and shall, enforce the  provisions
19    of  this  Act.  The  Illinois  Commerce Commission may impose
20    administrative penalties as provided in  this  Section.   The
21    Illinois Commerce Commission may promulgate rules and develop
22    enforcement  policies  in  the  manner provided by the Public
23    Utilities Act in order to implement compliance with this Act.
24    When a penalty is warranted, the following criteria shall  be
25    used in determining the magnitude of the penalty:
26             (1)  gravity of noncompliance;
27             (2)  culpability of offender;
28             (3)  history of noncompliance;
29             (4)  ability to pay penalty;
30             (5)  show of good faith of offender;
31             (6)  ability to continue business; and
32             (7)  other special circumstances.
33        The  Illinois  Commerce  Commission shall make public any
34    formulas developed in  applying  the  above  criteria,  shall
 
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 1    furnish  a  copy  of  the  formulas upon written request, and
 2    shall post a copy of the formulas on its Website.
 3        Failure of the  owner  or  operator  of  the  underground
 4    utility  facility  to  comply  with the provisions of Section
 5    9-113 of the Illinois Highway Code shall result in a  finding
 6    of no violation of this Act.
 7        The  violation  by  owners  and  operators of underground
 8    utility facilities or CATS facilities of any State or federal
 9    regulation governing the depth  of  the  underground  utility
10    facility  or  CATS  facility  shall result in a finding of no
11    violation of this Act.
12        (k)  There is hereby created  in  the  State  treasury  a
13    special  fund to be known as the Illinois Underground Utility
14    Facilities Damage Prevention Fund.  Eighty percent of the All
15    penalties recovered in any action under this Section shall be
16    paid into the Road Fund to be used exclusively for subsurface
17    utility engineering  by  the  Department  of  Transportation.
18    Twenty  percent of the penalties recovered under this Section
19    and  shall  be  distributed  annually  as  a  grant  to   the
20    State-Wide  One-Call  Notice  System to be used in safety and
21    informational programs to reduce the number of  incidents  of
22    damage  to underground utility facilities and CATS facilities
23    in Illinois.  The distribution shall be made  during  January
24    of  each  calendar  year based on the balance in the Illinois
25    Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Fund  as  of
26    December  31  of  the  previous  calendar  year.  In all such
27    actions under  this  Section,  the  procedure  and  rules  of
28    evidence  shall conform with the Code of Civil Procedure, and
29    with rules of courts governing civil trials.
30        (l)  The Illinois Commerce Commission shall establish  an
31    Advisory  Committee  consisting of a representative from each
32    of the following:  a  utility  operator,  the  Department  of
33    Transportation,  JULIE, an excavator, a municipality, and the
34    general public. The Advisory Committee shall serve as a  peer
 
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 1    review  panel  for any contested penalties resulting from the
 2    enforcement of this Act,  may  use  a  de  novo  standard  of
 3    review,   and  shall  render  a  decision  on  all  contested
 4    penalties within a reasonable time.  A written  record  shall
 5    be kept of all proceedings.
 6        The  members  of  the Advisory Committee shall be immune,
 7    individually and jointly, from civil liability for any act or
 8    omission done or made in performance of  their  duties  while
 9    serving as members of such Advisory Committee, unless the act
10    or omission was the result of willful and wanton misconduct.
11        (m)  If,  after  the  Advisory Committee has considered a
12    particular  contested  penalty  and  performed   its   review
13    functions  under  this  Act and the Commission's rules, there
14    remains a dispute as to whether the Commission should  impose
15    a  penalty  under  this  Act, the matter shall proceed in the
16    manner set forth in Article X of the  Public  Utilities  Act,
17    including the provisions governing judicial review.
18    (Source: P.A. 92-179, eff. 7-1-02.)".