2014 Tennessee Code
Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 31 - Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act
§ 65-31-107 - Operator associations for mutual receipt of notifications.
(a) Operators may form and operate a one-call service providing for mutual receipt of notifications of excavation or demolition operations, pursuant to § 65-31-106, in a defined geographical area. Any operator that suffers damage as a result of not participating in a one-call service providing for receipt of the notification of excavation or demolition operations in a defined geographic area, pursuant to § 65-31-106, waives the right to recover damages to the operator's underground utilities from the excavator; provided, that the provisions of this chapter were met by the excavator.
(b) (1) Natural gas distribution systems are required to belong to a one-call service formed in a geographical area in which such gas distribution systems operate.
(2) Only one (1) one-call service shall be formed and operated within a defined geographical area.
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