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IN SB0472
Bill
AI Summary
Senate Enrolled Act No. 472 - Bill Summary
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Establishes "design information notices" as a voluntary notification that persons providing professional services can submit to the Indiana Underground Plant Protection Service before commencing preliminary engineering studies or construction planning activities for projects involving excavation or demolition operations.
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Allows design information notices to be submitted during advance planning stages, separate from the required notice before actual excavation or demolition begins, with a limit of two notices per project from the same person within any 180-day period.
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Requires operators receiving design information notices to respond within 10 full working days by providing facility descriptions, allowing record inspections, or marking facility locations with temporary markers; permits operators to reject notices based on security concerns or competitive disadvantage.
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Mandates the Indiana Underground Plant Protection Service to develop policies for processing design information notices and immediately notify affected operators and the requesting person of identified utilities in the project area.
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Imposes civil penalties up to $10,000 for persons failing to provide required notice or perform white lining before excavation/demolition begins, and up to $1,000 for pipeline operators failing to supply location information or providing incorrect markings.
Legislative Description
Requests to locate underground utility facilities. Amends the statute concerning the locating and marking of underground utility facilities (Indiana's 811 law) to allow a person responsible for: (1) a construction project; or (2) any other project or operation; that will involve an excavation or demolition operation to provide a voluntary design information notice to the association known as the Indiana Underground Plant Protection Service (association) before commencing preliminary engineering studies or construction planning activities in the project area that will be affected by the excavation or demolition. Provides that a design information notice must be received by the association at
Last Action
Public Law 122
4/21/2017