Ind. Code § 8-1-26-19
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Emergency excavation or demolition; notice requirements; penalties
Official statutory text
Sec. 19. (a) A person responsible for emergency excavation or demolition to ameliorate an imminent danger to life, health, property, or loss of service is not required to comply with the notice requirements of section 16 of this chapter. However, that person shall:
(1) as soon as practicable, give notice, in the manner prescribed by the association, of the emergency excavation or demolition to the association; and
(2) request emergency assistance from each operator identified by the association as having underground facilities located in the area of the emergency excavation or demolition in locating and providing immediate protection to the operator's underground facilities.
(b) This section applies to an operator making an emergency repair to its own underground facility.
(c) A person that knowingly provides false notice of an emergency excavation or demolition to the association under subsection (a) may be subject to a civil penalty in an amount recommended by the advisory committee and approved by the commission, not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
As added by P.L.69-1990, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.62-2009, SEC.16; P.L.53-2024, SEC.9.
(1) as soon as practicable, give notice, in the manner prescribed by the association, of the emergency excavation or demolition to the association; and
(2) request emergency assistance from each operator identified by the association as having underground facilities located in the area of the emergency excavation or demolition in locating and providing immediate protection to the operator's underground facilities.
(b) This section applies to an operator making an emergency repair to its own underground facility.
(c) A person that knowingly provides false notice of an emergency excavation or demolition to the association under subsection (a) may be subject to a civil penalty in an amount recommended by the advisory committee and approved by the commission, not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
As added by P.L.69-1990, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.62-2009, SEC.16; P.L.53-2024, SEC.9.
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