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1、Chapter 271 - Arkansas Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Act 14-271-101. Title - Back To Top This chapter may be cited as the Arkansas Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Act. 14-271-102. Definitions - Back To Top As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Approx
2、imate location of underground facilities means a strip of land at least three feet (3) wide but not wider than the width of the facility plus one and one-half feet (1 1/2) on either side of the facility; (2) Damage includes the substantial weakening of structural or lateral support of underground fa
3、cilities, the penetration or destruction of any protective coating, housing, or other protective device of underground facilities, the partial or complete severance of an underground facility, and the rendering of any underground facility inaccessible; (3) Demolish or demolition means any operation
4、by which a structure or mass of material is wrecked, razed, rendered, moved, or removed by means of any powered tools, powered equipment, exclusive of transportation equipment, or discharge explosives; (4) Excavate or excavation means to dig, compress, or remove earth, rock, or other materials in or
5、 on the ground by use of mechanized equipment or blasting including, but not necessarily limited to, auguring, boring, backfilling, drilling, grading, pile driving, plowing in, pulling in, trenching, tunneling, and plowing; (5) Mechanized equipment means equipment operated by means of mechanical pow
6、er including trenchers, bulldozers, power shovels, augers, backhoes, scrapers, drills, cable and pipe plows, and other equipment used for plowing in or pulling in cable or pipe; (6) Member operator means any operator that is a member of the Arkansas One Call Center; (7) One Call Center means a cente
7、r operated by an organization which has as one of its purposes to receive notification of planned excavation and demolition in a specified area from excavato5rs, and to disseminate such notification of planned excavation or demolition to operators who are members of the center; (8) Operator means an
8、y public utility as defined in 23-1-101, which owns or operates an underground facility; all municipally owned or operated water, sewer, or electric utilities; any gas utility however owned or operated; all master meter operators whose underground facilities cross property other than their own or un
9、der public rights-of-way; and any other water or sewer utilities, owned or operated individually or by property owners associations, improvement districts, or property developers, serving in excess of one hundred (100) customers; (9) Person means any individual, any corporation, partnership, associa
10、tion, or any other entity organized under the laws of any state, any subdivision or instrumentality of a state, and any employee, agent, or legal representative thereof; (10) Pre engineered project means a public project wherein the public agency responsible for the project, as part of its engineeri
11、ng and contract procedures, holds a formal meeting prior to the commencement of any construction work on the project in which all persons determined by the public agency to have underground facilities located within the construction area of the project are invited to attend and given an opportunity
12、to verify or inform the public agency of the location of their underground facilities, if any, within the construction area and wherein the location of all known underground facilities are located or noted on the engineering drawing and specifications for the project; (11) Public agency means the st
13、ate or any board, commission, or agency of the state and any city, town county, subdivision thereof, or other governmental entity; (12) Right-of-way means any area along which an underground facility is located; (13) Underground facility means any line, system, and appurtenance or facility used for
14、producing storing, conveying, transmitting, or distributing communications, electricity, gas, heat, water, steam or sewage, but shall not include cable television facilities; (14) Underground pipeline facilities means any underground pipeline facility used to transport natural gas or hazardous liqui
15、ds. However, this definition does not apply to persons, including operators master meters, whose primary activity does not include the production, transportation, or marketing of gas or hazardous liquids or to master-metered systems whose underground facilities do not cross property other than their
16、 own or are not located under public rights-of way; and. (15) Working day means every day, except Saturday, Sunday, and national and legal state holidays. 14-271-103. Applicability - Back To Top (a) The Arkansas Public Service Commission shall, after public comment and hearing as provided below, promulgate regulations providing for an Arkansas One Call Center to be established and maintained by all operators subject to the jurisdiction of the comm
