Idaho Code 55-2206 – One-Number Notification Service — Establishment — Participation Required — Funding
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Terms Used In Idaho Code 55-2206
- Board: means the damage prevention board. See Idaho Code 55-2202
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Damage: means any impact or exposure that results in the substantial weakening of structural or lateral support of an underground facility, or the penetration, impairment, or destruction of any underground protective coating, housing, or other protective device, or the partial or complete destruction of the facility, or the severance, partial or complete, of any underground facility to the extent that the project owner or the affected underground facility owner determines that repairs are required. See Idaho Code 55-2202
- Emergency: means any sudden or unforeseen condition that compels immediate action to prevent or resolve:
Idaho Code 55-2202Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. One-number notification service: means a service through which a person can notify owners of underground facilities and request field-marking of their underground facilities. See Idaho Code 55-2202 Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, a state, a city, a county, or any subdivision or instrumentality of a state, and its employees, agents, or legal representatives. See Idaho Code 55-2202 Underground facility: means any item buried or placed belowground for use in connection with the storage or conveyance of water (unless being delivered primarily for irrigation), stormwater, sewage, electronic, telephonic or telegraphic communications, cable television, electric energy, petroleum products, gas, gaseous vapors, hazardous liquids, or other substances and includes but is not limited to pipes, sewers, conduits, cables, valves, lines, wires, manholes, attachments, and those parts of poles or anchors belowground. See Idaho Code 55-2202 Underground facility owner: means any person who owns or operates an underground facility or who provides any utility service or commodity to an end user via an underground facility. See Idaho Code 55-2202
Two (2) or more persons who own or operate underground facilities in a county may voluntarily establish or contract with a third person to provide a one-number notification service to maintain information concerning underground facilities within a county. Upon the establishment of the first such one-number notification service, all underground facility owners with underground facilities within said county shall participate and cooperate with the service, and no duplicative service shall be established pursuant to this chapter. The activities of the one-number notification service shall be funded by all of the underground facility owners required by the provisions of this section to participate in and cooperate with the service. Each underground facility owner required to participate in a one-number notification service is subject to the jurisdiction of the damage prevention board established in section 55-2203, Idaho Code, and shall maintain accurate contact information, updated at least annually, with the one-number notification service for individuals responsible for the operation of the underground facilities of the underground facility owner, including contact information for individuals responsible for responding to an emergency.