No excavator may begin any excavation without first notifying the one-call notification center of the proposed excavation. The excavator shall give notice by telephone or by other methods approved by the board pursuant to rules promulgated pursuant to chapter1-26to the one-call notification center at least forty-eight hours prior to the commencement of the excavation, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays of the state. The board may promulgate rules to reduce the forty-eight-hour interval for emergency or subsequent inquiries to the original locate request and may lengthen the forty-eight-hour interval for nonexcavation requests.

Source: SL 1993, ch 346 , § 6; SL 1994, ch 354 , § 4; SL 1997, ch 263 , § 2; SL 2002, ch 211 , § 3; SL 2007, ch 264 , § 2.