2005 Idaho Code - 55-2208 — EXCAVATIONS EXEMPT FROM NOTICE REQUIREMENT

                                  TITLE  55
                             PROPERTY IN GENERAL
                                  CHAPTER 22
                   UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION
    55-2208.  EXCAVATIONS EXEMPT FROM NOTICE REQUIREMENT. Unless facts exist
which would reasonably cause an excavator to believe that an underground
facility exists within the depth of the intended excavation, the following
excavations shall not require notice of the excavation pursuant to section
55-2203(1)(c), Idaho Code:
    (1)  An excavation of less than fifteen (15) inches in vertical depth
outside the boundaries of an underground facility easement of public record on
private property.
    (2)  The tilling of soil to a depth of less than fifteen (15) inches for
agricultural practices.
    (3)  The extraction of minerals within recorded mining claims or
excavation within material sites legally located and of record, unless such
excavation occurs within the boundaries of an underground facility easement.
    (4)  Normal maintenance of roads, streets and highways, including cleaning
of roadside drainage ditches and clear zones, to a depth of fifteen (15)
inches below the grade established during the design of the last construction
of which underground facility owners were notified and which excavation will
not reduce the authorized depth of cover of an underground facility.
    (5)  Replacement of highway guardrail posts, sign posts, delineator
posts, culverts, and traffic control device supports in the same approximate
location and depth of the replaced item within public highway rights-of-way.
    (6)  Normal maintenance of railroad rights-of-way, except where such
rights-of-way intersect or cross public roads, streets, highways, or
rights-of-way adjacent thereto, or recorded underground facility easements.