Sec. 16-345. Definitions.
Sec. 16-345. Definitions. As used in this chapter:
(a) "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.
(b) "Public agency" means the state or any political subdivision thereof, including
any governmental agency.
(c) "Public utility" means the owner or operator of underground facilities for furnishing electric, gas, telephone, telegraph, pipeline, sewage, water, community television antenna, steam or traffic signal service, including a municipal or other public owner
or operator.
(d) "Central clearinghouse" means the group of public utilities formed pursuant to
section 16-348 for the purposes of receiving and giving notice of excavation activity
within the state.
(e) "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 and tunneling; excluding the movement
of earth by tools manipulated only by human or animal power and the tilling of soil for
agricultural purposes.
(f) "Demolition" means the wrecking, razing, rending, moving or removing of any
structure.
(g) "Damage" includes but is not limited to the substantial weakening of structural
or lateral support of a utility line, penetration or destruction of any utility line protective
coating, housing or other protective device or the severance, partial or complete, of any
utility line.
(h) "Approximate location of underground facilities" means a strip of land not more
than three feet wide or a strip of land extending not more than one and one-half feet on
either side of the underground facilities.
(P.A. 77-350, S. 1; P.A. 95-79, S. 53, 189; P.A. 98-28, S. 103, 117; P.A. 99-31, S. 8.)
History: P.A. 95-79 redefined "person" to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995; P.A. 98-28
amended Subsec. (c) by changing electric service to electric distribution service, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-31 redefined
"public utility" to delete distribution facilities.
Subdiv. (c):
Cited. 12 CA 499.