Connecticut General Statutes 16-351 – Information and assistance re location of underground facilities
A public utility receiving notice pursuant to section 16-349 shall inform the person, public agency or public utility proposing to excavate, discharge explosives or demolish of the approximate location of its underground facilities in the area in such manner as will enable such person, public agency or public utility to establish the actual location of the underground facilities, and shall provide such other assistance in establishing the actual location of the underground facilities as the authority may require by regulations adopted pursuant to section 16-357. Such person, public agency or public utility shall designate the area of the proposed excavation, demolition or discharge of explosives as the authority may prescribe by regulations adopted pursuant to section 16-357. The public utility receiving notice shall mark the approximate location of its underground facilities in such manner and using such methods, including color coding, as the authority may prescribe by regulations adopted pursuant to section 16-357. If the actual location of the underground facilities cannot be established, the person, public agency or public utility shall so notify the public utility whose facilities may be affected, which shall provide such further assistance as may be needed to determine the actual location of the underground facilities in advance of the proposed excavation, discharge of explosives or demolition.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 16-351
- Authority: means the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and "department" means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- Demolition: means the wrecking, razing, rending, moving or removing of any structure. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
- Excavation: means an operation for the purposes of movement or removal of earth, rock or other materials in or on the ground, or otherwise disturbing the subsurface of the earth, by the use of powered or mechanized equipment, including but not limited to digging, blasting, auguring, back filling, test boring, drilling, pile driving, grading, plowing-in, hammering, pulling-in, trenching, tunneling, dredging, reclamation processes and milling. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
- Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association, including a person engaged as a contractor by a public agency but excluding a public agency. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
- Public agency: means the state or any political subdivision thereof, including any governmental agency. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
- Public utility: means the owner or operator of underground facilities for furnishing electric, gas, telephone, communications, pipeline, sewage, water, community television antenna, steam, traffic signal, fire signal or similar service, including a municipal or other public owner or operator. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345