< Section repealed effective June 7, 2012 by 2011 Act No. 48, Section 2 >

1. (1) "Association" means a group of public utilities or their representatives or an organization contracting with a group of public utilities formed for the purpose of receiving and giving notice of excavation, demolition or similar activities in the State.
2. (2) "Damage" includes the substantial weakening of structural or lateral support of an underground utility, penetration or destruction of protective coating, housing, or other protective device of a utility and the partial or complete severance of a utility.
3. (3) "Demolish" or "demolition" means any operation by which a structure or mass of material is wrecked, razed, rendered, moved or removed by means of any tools, equipment, or discharge of explosives.
4. (4) "Excavate" or "excavation" means an operation for the purpose of the movement or removal of earth, rock, or other materials in or on the ground by use of mechanized equipment or by discharge of explosives and including augering, backfilling, digging, ditching, drilling, well drilling, grading, plowing-in, pulling-in, ripping, scraping, trenching and tunneling, but not including the tilling of soil for agricultural purposes, gardening or landscaping which involves the movement of less than one cubic yard of soil or other materials.
5. (5) "Mechanized equipment" means equipment operated by means of mechanical power including trenchers, bulldozers, power shovels, augers, backhoes, scrapers, drills, cable and pipe plows and other equipment used for plowing-in or pulling-in cable or pipe.
6. (6) "Person" means any individual, owner, corporation, partnership, association, or any other entity organized under the laws of any state; any subdivision or instrumentality of a state; and any authorized representative thereof.
7. (7) "Utility" means any underground line, system or facility used for producing, storing, conveying, transmitting, or distributing communication, electricity, gas, petroleum, petroleum products, hazardous liquids, water, steam or sewerage, including storm drainage.
8. (8) "Operator" means any person who owns or operates a utility.
9. (9) "Public utility" means any organization, corporation, municipality, municipal department, authority or other association providing service to the general public or segments thereof with any type of utility.
10. (10) "Working day" means every day, except Saturday, Sunday and legal holidays.

As used in this chapter:

HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 588 Section 2, eff July 18, 1978.