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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.)

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