68-103-103 - Clearance or safeguard required.
68-103-103. Clearance or safeguard required.
(a) The operation, erection or transportation of any tools, machinery, or equipment, or any part of any tools, machinery, or equipment, capable of vertical, lateral or swinging motion, the handling, transportation or storage of any supplies, materials or apparatus, or the moving of any house or other building, or any part of any house or building, under, over, by or near high-voltage lines, is expressly prohibited, if at any time during such operation, transportation or other manipulation it is possible to bring the equipment, tools, materials, building, or any part of the equipment, tools, materials or building, within six feet (6¢) of the high-voltage lines, except where the high-voltage lines have been effectively guarded against danger from accidental contact, by either:
(1) The erection of mechanical barriers to prevent physical contact with high-voltage conductors; or
(2) De-energizing the high-voltage conductors and grounding where necessary.
(b) Only in the case of either an exception referenced in subdivision (a)(1) or (a)(2) may the six-foot clearance required be reduced. The required six-foot clearance shall not be provided by movement of the conductors through strains impressed, by attachments or otherwise, upon the structures supporting the high-voltage line nor upon any equipment, fixtures or attachments on the structures.
(c) If temporary relocation of the high-voltage conductors is necessary, appropriate arrangements shall be made with the owner or operator of the overhead line for such temporary relocation.
[Acts 1955, ch. 289, § 3; T.C.A., §§ 53-2803, 68-21-103.]