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367.4903 Definitions for KRS 367.4903 to 367.4917.
As used in KRS 367.4903 to 367.4917: <br>(1) "Underground facility" means an underground line or system used for producing,
storing, conveying, transmitting, or distributing telecommunications, electricity, <br>gas, petroleum, petroleum products, cable television, hazardous liquids, water, <br>steam, or sewerage, including storm drainage;
(2) "Damage" means weakening of structural or lateral support or penetration of a
facility coating, housing, or other protective device. It also means the partial or <br>complete dislocation or severance of underground facilities;
(3) "Demolition" means any operation by which a structure or mass of material is
wrecked, razed, moved, or removed by means of mechanized equipment, or <br>discharge of explosives;
(4) "Excavator" means any entity or individual, other than those exempted by KRS
367.4915, engaged in excavation or demolition;
(5) "Operator" means any entity or individual owning underground facilities to serve
the public;
(6) "Excavation" means any activity that results in the movement, placement, probing,
boring, or removal of earth, rock, or other material in or on the ground by the use of <br>any tools or equipment, or by the discharge of explosives. Forms of excavating <br>include but are not limited to auguring, backfilling, digging, ditching, drilling, <br>driving, grading, piling, pulling-in, ripping, scraping, trenching, and tunneling;
(7) "Emergency" means there exists substantial likelihood that loss of life or property or
the inability to restore interrupted utility service will result before procedures <br>required under KRS 367.4909 to 367.4913 can be completed;
(8) "Protection notification center" means an operator-provided notification center
through which an excavator can contact the operator to enable the operator to <br>provide the excavator with the approximate location of underground facilities;
(9) "One-call center" means a multimember protection notification center providing a
single telephone contact number and designated by the Kentucky Public Service <br>Commission to be the sole recipient of 811 dialed calls through which an excavator <br>may contact all operator one-call center members and all affected operators may <br>receive information to enable them to provide the excavator with the approximate <br>location of underground facilities;
(10) "Routine road maintenance" means preservation, including road repairs and
resurfacing, but does not include road construction or penetration of existing grade;
(11) "Approximate location," when referring to an underground facility, means:
(a) For underground metallic facilities and underground nonmetallic facilities
with metallic tracer wire, a distance not to exceed the combined width of the <br>underground facility plus eighteen (18) inches measured from the outer edge <br>of each side of the underground facility; or
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(b) For nonmetallic facilities without metallic tracer wire, the underground
facility shall be located as accurately as possible from field location records; <br>and
(12) "Business day" means from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except Saturday, Sunday, and
holidays established by federal or state statute.
Effective: July 15, 2008 <br>History: Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 222, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 425, sec. 2, effective January 1, 1995.
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