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1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Underground Utility Facilities | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Damage Prevention Act is amended by changing Section 10 as | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | follows:
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7 | (220 ILCS 50/10) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1610)
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8 | Sec. 10. Record of notice; marking of facilities. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | 95th General Assembly, all new or replaced underground utility | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | lines must be marked with detectable underground warning tape | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | that is able to be traced by inductive locating. The marking | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | shall be a minimum of 6 inches and be buried as close to the | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | ground surface as possible, or between 4 and 6 inches deep. | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | The warning tape shall be American Public Works Association | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | color-coded to match the type of utility line it is protecting. | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (b) Upon notice by the
person engaged in excavation or
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18 | demolition, the person owning or operating underground utility | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | facilities
or CATS facilities in or near the excavation or | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | demolition area shall
cause a written record to be made of the | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | notice and shall mark, within 48
hours of receipt of notice, | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | the
approximate locations of such facilities so as to enable | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | the person excavating
or demolishing to establish the location |
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1 | of the underground utility facilities
or CATS facilities. | ||||||
2 | Owners and operators of underground sewer facilities
that are | ||||||
3 | located outside the boundaries of a municipality having a | ||||||
4 | population
of at least 1,000,000 inhabitants
shall be required | ||||||
5 | to
respond and mark the approximate location of those sewer | ||||||
6 | facilities when
the excavator indicates, in the notice required | ||||||
7 | in Section 4, that the
excavation or demolition project will | ||||||
8 | exceed a depth of 7 feet. "Depth", in
this
case, is defined as | ||||||
9 | the distance measured vertically from the surface of the
ground | ||||||
10 | to the top of the sewer facility. Owners and operators of | ||||||
11 | underground
sewer
facilities
that are located outside the | ||||||
12 | boundaries of a municipality having a population
of at least | ||||||
13 | 1,000,000 inhabitants
shall be required at all times to locate | ||||||
14 | the approximate location of
those sewer facilities
when: (1) | ||||||
15 | directional
boring is the indicated type of excavation work | ||||||
16 | being performed within the
notice; (2) the underground sewer | ||||||
17 | facilities owned are non-gravity, pressurized
force mains; or | ||||||
18 | (3) the excavation indicated will occur in the immediate
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19 | proximity of known
underground sewer facilities that are less | ||||||
20 | than 7 feet deep. Owners or
operators of underground sewer
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21 | facilities that are located outside the boundaries of a | ||||||
22 | municipality having a
population
of at least 1,000,000 | ||||||
23 | inhabitants
shall not hold an excavator liable for damages that | ||||||
24 | occur to sewer
facilities that were not required to be marked | ||||||
25 | under this Section, provided
that
prompt notice of the damage | ||||||
26 | is made to the State-Wide One-Call Notice System
and
the |
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1 | utility owner as required in Section 7.
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2 | All persons subject to the requirements of this Act shall | ||||||
3 | plan and conduct
their work consistent with reasonable business | ||||||
4 | practices. Conditions may exist
making it unreasonable to | ||||||
5 | request that locations be marked within 48 hours. It
is | ||||||
6 | unreasonable to request owners and operators of underground | ||||||
7 | utility
facilities and CATS facilities to locate all of their | ||||||
8 | facilities in an affected
area upon
short notice in advance of | ||||||
9 | a large or extensive nonemergency project, or to
request | ||||||
10 | extensive locates in excess of a reasonable excavation or | ||||||
11 | demolition
work schedule, or to request locates under | ||||||
12 | conditions where a repeat request is
likely
to be made because | ||||||
13 | of the passage of time or adverse job conditions.
Owners
and | ||||||
14 | operators of underground utility facilities and CATS | ||||||
15 | facilities must
reasonably anticipate seasonal fluctuations in | ||||||
16 | the number of locate requests
and staff accordingly.
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17 | If a person owning or operating underground utility | ||||||
18 | facilities or CATS
facilities receives a notice under this | ||||||
19 | Section but does not own
or operate any underground utility | ||||||
20 | facilities or CATS facilities within the
proposed excavation or | ||||||
21 | demolition area described in the notice, that person,
within 48 | ||||||
22 | hours after receipt
of the notice, shall so notify the person | ||||||
23 | engaged in excavation or demolition
who initiated the notice, | ||||||
24 | unless the person who initiated the notice
expressly waives the | ||||||
25 | right to be notified that no facilities are located within
the | ||||||
26 | excavation or demolition area. The notification by the owner or |
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1 | operator
of
underground utility facilities or CATS facilities | ||||||
2 | to the person engaged in
excavation or demolition may be | ||||||
3 | provided in any reasonable manner including,
but not limited | ||||||
4 | to, notification in any one of the following ways: by
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5 | face-to-face communication; by phone or phone message; by | ||||||
6 | facsimile; by posting
in the excavation or demolition area; or | ||||||
7 | by marking the excavation or
demolition area. The owner or | ||||||
8 | operator of those facilities has discharged the
owner's or | ||||||
9 | operator's obligation to provide notice under this Section if | ||||||
10 | the
owner or operator attempts to provide notice by telephone | ||||||
11 | or by facsimile, if
the person has supplied a facsimile number, | ||||||
12 | but is unable to do
so because the person engaged in the | ||||||
13 | excavation or demolition does not answer
his or her telephone | ||||||
14 | or does not have an answering machine or answering service
to | ||||||
15 | receive the telephone call or does not have a facsimile machine | ||||||
16 | in operation
to receive the facsimile transmission. If the | ||||||
17 | owner or operator attempts to
provide notice by telephone or by | ||||||
18 | facsimile but receives a busy signal, that
attempt shall not | ||||||
19 | serve to discharge the owner or operator of the obligation to
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20 | provide notice under this Section.
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21 | A person engaged in excavation or demolition may expressly | ||||||
22 | waive the right
to notification from the owner or operator of | ||||||
23 | underground utility facilities or
CATS facilities that the | ||||||
24 | owner or operator has no facilities located in the
proposed | ||||||
25 | excavation or demolition area. Waiver of notice is only | ||||||
26 | permissible
in the case of regular or nonemergency locate |
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1 | requests. The waiver must be
made at the time of
the notice to | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | the State-Wide One-Call Notice System. A waiver made under this
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3 | Section is not admissible as evidence in any criminal or civil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | action that may
arise out of, or is in any way related to, the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | excavation or demolition that is
the subject of the waiver.
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6 | For the purposes of this Act,
underground facility | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | operators may utilize a combination of flags, stakes,
and paint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | when possible on non-paved surfaces and when dig site and | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | seasonal
conditions warrant. If the approximate
location of an | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | underground utility facility or CATS facility is marked with
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11 | stakes or other physical means, the following color coding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | shall be employed:
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9 | (Source: P.A. 93-430, eff. 8-5-03; 94-623, eff. 8-18-05.)
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