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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64117</law_id><section_number>56-265.22</section_number><catch_line>Duties of notification center upon notification by person intending to excavate; record of notification made by telephone required</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="56">Public Service Companies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="10.3">Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The notification center shall, upon receiving notice by a <span class="dictionary">person</span>, notify all member operators whose utility lines are present in the area of the proposed project, excavation, or demolition. The notification center shall also indicate the names of those operators being notified to the <span class="dictionary">person</span> providing notice. <a id="paragraph-233439" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/56-265.22/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If the notification required by this chapter is made by telephone, a record of such notification shall be maintained by the operators or notification center notified to document compliance with the requirements of this chapter, and such records shall be maintained in compliance with the applicable <span class="dictionary">statute of limitations</span>. <a id="paragraph-233440" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/56-265.22/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The notification center shall notify excavators, within the time frame allowed by the <span class="dictionary">law</span> to mark underground utility lines, of any responses placed on the positive response system by a locator. Such notification shall occur by mutually acceptable means of automatically transmitting and receiving this information.
			If the excavator cannot provide the notification center with mutually acceptable means of automatically transmitting and receiving this information, it shall be the excavator&#x2019;s responsibility to contact the positive response system after the period allowed by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to mark underground facilities and prior to commencing excavation in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to determine if any responses to the notice have been recorded. <a id="paragraph-233441" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/56-265.22/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1979, c. 291; 1994, c. 890; 2002, c. 841; 2023, cc. 299, 300.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
