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91_HB0904
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Underground Utility
2 Facilities Damage Prevention Act by changing Section 6.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Underground Utility Facilities
6 Damage Prevention Act is amended by changing Section 6 as
7 follows:
8 (220 ILCS 50/6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1606)
9 Sec. 6. Emergency excavation or demolition.
10 (a) Every person who engages in emergency excavation or
11 demolition outside of the boundaries of a municipality of at
12 least one million persons which operates its own one-call
13 notice system shall take all reasonable precautions to avoid
14 or minimize interference between the emergency work and
15 existing underground utility facilities or CATS facilities in
16 and near the excavation or demolition area, through the
17 State-Wide One-Call Notice System, and shall notify, as far
18 in advance as possible, the owners or operators of such
19 underground utility facilities or CATS facilities in and near
20 the emergency excavation or demolition area, through the
21 State-Wide One-Call Notice System.
22 (b) Every person who engages in emergency excavation or
23 demolition within the boundaries of a municipality of at
24 least one million persons which operates its own one-call
25 notice system shall take all reasonable precautions to avoid
26 or minimize interference between the emergency work and
27 existing underground utility facilities or CATS facilities in
28 and near the excavation or demolition area, through the
29 municipality's one-call notice system, and shall notify, as
30 far in advance as possible, the owners and operators of
31 underground utility facilities or CATS facilities in and near
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1 the emergency excavation or demolition area, through the
2 municipality's one-call notice system.
3 (c) The reinstallation of traffic control devices shall
4 be deemed an emergency for purposes of this Section.
5 (Source: P.A. 86-674; 87-125.)