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367.4915 Activities exempt from KRS 367.4905 to 367.4917.
The requirements of KRS 367.4905 to 367.4917 shall not apply to the following:
(1) Excavation by an operator on its own easement except where that easement is
crossed by another operator's facilities;
(2) Routine road maintenance or railroad maintenance or repairs;
(3) Tilling of soil for agricultural purposes;
(4) Excavators excavating on private property, using nonmechanized equipment, if
there is no encroachment on any operator's right-of-way or easement;
(5) The opening of a grave in a cemetery;
(6) A solid waste disposal site which is properly permitted;
(7) Coal mining operations which are currently regulated under KRS Chapter 350;
(8) A utility operator or utility operator subcontractor performing emergency work as
defined in KRS 367.4903;
(9) Leak migration testing using metal probes inserted by hand by an authorized
representative of the operator; or
(10) Any nonintrusive excavating performed by an operator or his subcontractor to
locate the operator's underground facilities in response to a notice of excavation
from the notification center, if all reasonable precautions have been taken to protect
the underground facilities.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 137, sec. 6, effective July 12, 2012. -- Amended
2008 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 4, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch.
222, sec. 5, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 425, sec. 8,
effective January 1, 1995.
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