Code of Alabama - Title 37: Public Utilities and Public Transportation - Chapter 15 - Notification of Excavation or Demolition Operations

• Section 37-15-1 Purpose and intent
  The purpose of this chapter is to safeguard against injury and loss of life due to excavation or demolition and to protect underground facilities from...
• Section 37-15-2 Definitions
  As used in this chapter the following words have the following meanings: (1) APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF UNDERGROUND FACILITIES. Information about an operator's underground facilities which...
• Section 37-15-3 Prohibition
  No person shall excavate in a street, highway, public easement, private easement, or implied easement of an operator, or on property of an operator, or...
• Section 37-15-4 Notice of intent to excavate or demolish
  (a) A permit issued pursuant to law authorizing excavation or demolition operations shall not be deemed to relieve a person from the responsibility for complying...
• Section 37-15-4.1 Design or survey locate requests
  THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2019-407 IN THE 2019 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a)...
• Section 37-15-5 Underground damage prevention program
  (a) Until January 1, 2027: (1) Operators who have underground facilities within this state shall participate in and utilize the services of the One-Call Notification...
• Section 37-15-6 Response to notice of intent to excavate or demolish
  (a)(1) Each operator served with notice in accordance with Section 37-15-4, with underground facilities in the area, shall mark or cause to be marked or...
• Section 37-15-7 Emergency excavation or demolition
  (a) Compliance with the notice requirements of Section 37-15-4 is not required of persons responsible for emergency excavation or demolition; provided, however, that such person...
• Section 37-15-8 Precaution to avoid damage
  In addition to the notification requirements of Section 37-15-4, each person responsible for an excavation or demolition operation designated in Section 37-15-3, when performing excavation...
• Section 37-15-9 Excavation or demolition damage
  (a) Each person responsible for any excavation or demolition operation that results in any damage to an underground facility, immediately upon discovery of such damage,...
• Section 37-15-10 Penalties
  (a) Any person who violates this chapter, or the rules adopted under this chapter, shall be subject to a civil penalty as follows: (1) For...
• Section 37-15-10.1 Underground Damage Prevention Authority
  (a) The Underground Damage Prevention Authority is created for the purpose of enforcing this chapter and for reviewing penalty provisions and the adequacy of the...
• Section 37-15-10.2 Violations; complaints; dispute and hearing; judicial review
  (a) Any person who violates this chapter may be reported to the authority for the alleged violation. (b) The board shall develop and implement a...
• Section 37-15-11 Liberal construction
  The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed as to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and the operation of a "One-Call Notification System."

Last modified: May 3, 2021