2013 Code of Virginia
Title 56 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANIES.
Chapter 10.3 - Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act
Section 56-265.23 - Exemption for roadway maintenance operations by the Virginia Department of Transportation and certa...
§ 56-265.23. Exemption for roadway maintenance operations by the Virginia Department of Transportation and certain counties, cities, and towns.
Employees of the Virginia Department of Transportation acting within the scope of their employment, and certain employees of those counties, cities, and towns which maintain their streets or roads in accordance with § 33.1-23.5:1 or § 33.1-41.1 performing street or roadway maintenance operations and acting within the scope of their employment, excavating entirely within the right-of-way of a public road, street or highway of the Commonwealth shall not be required to comply with the provisions of this chapter if reasonable care is taken to protect the utility lines placed in the right-of-way by permit and if they:
1. Excavate within the limits of the original excavation; on the traveled way, shoulders or drainage features of a public road, street, or highway and any excavation does not exceed eighteen inches (0.45 meter) in depth below the grade existing prior to such excavation; or
2. Are replacing previously existing structures in their previous locations.
(1979, c. 291; 1994, c. 890.)
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