§ 8-1-26-19 — Emergency excavation or demolition; notice requirements; penalties

Indiana § 8-1-26-19

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 1: UTILITIES GENERALLY
• Ch. 26: Damage to Underground Facilities

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(a) A person responsible for emergency
excavation or demolition to ameliorate an imminent danger to life,
health, property, or loss of service is not required to comply with the
notice requirements of section 16 of this chapter. However, that person
shall:
(1) as soon as practicable, give notice, in the manner prescribed
by the association, of the emergency excavation or demolition to
the association; and
(2) request emergency assistance from each operator identified by
the association as having underground facilities located in the
area of the emergency excavation or demolition in locating and
providing immediate protection to the operator's underground
facilities.
(b) This section applies to an operator making an emergency repair
to its own underground facility.
(c) A person that knowingly provides false notice of an emergency
excavation or demolition to the association under subsection (a) may
be subject to a civil penalty in an amount recommended by the advisory
committee and approved by the commission, not to exceed one
thousand dollars ($1,000).

Legislative History

As added by P.L.69-1990, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.62-2009, SEC.16; P.L.53-2024, SEC.9.