2011 Code of Virginia
Title 59.1 TRADE AND COMMERCE.
Chapter 30 Overhead High Voltage Line Safety Act (59.1-406 thru 59.1-414)
59.1-408 Prohibited activities

59.1-408. Prohibited activities.

Unless danger of contact with overhead high voltage lines has been guarded against as provided by 59.1-410:

1. No person shall, individually or through an agent or employee, perform, or require any other person to perform, any work, as defined in 59.1-407, that will cause any person or tools, machinery, ladders, antennas, equipment, covered equipment, supplies, materials, or apparatus to be placed within 10 feet (3.1 meters) of any overhead high voltage line.

2. A clearance greater than 10 feet (3.1 meters) may be required under the circumstances by the occupational safety and health regulations adopted by the Safety and Health Codes Board pursuant to Chapter 3 ( 40.1-22 et seq.) of Title 40.1 and enforced by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry.

3. The prohibited activities as described in this section shall not apply to covered equipment as defined herein when lawfully driven or transported on public streets and highways in compliance with the height restriction imposed by 46.2-1110, nor shall they apply to covered equipment, when used in agricultural or silvicultural activities, that is in compliance with the height restrictions imposed by 46.2-1110 when driven or transported on land used for agricultural or silvicultural activities.

(1989, c. 341; 1995, c. 298; 2003, c. 364.)