(a) The excavator shall delineate the area to be excavated with white spray chalk or other suitable markings prior to calling the center. The excavator shall indicate the entire dimension of the excavation by known industrial practices and display the excavator’s name, abbreviations, or initials next to or in the white spray chalk markings to identify the excavation site.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 269E-8

  • Center: means the one call center. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269E-2
  • Excavation: means any operation in which earth, rock, or other material in the ground is moved, removed, or otherwise displaced by means of tools, equipment, or explosives, including but not limited to the following: grading, trenching, digging, ditching, boring, drilling, auguring, tunneling, scraping cable or pipe plowing and driving, demolition, and dredging. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269E-2
  • Excavator: means any person, including an operator, who performs any excavation, other than an operator whose employees are performing maintenance work on the operator's subsurface installation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269E-2
  • Operator: means any person who owns, operates, or maintains a subsurface installation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269E-2
(b) When an excavator delineates an area to be excavated with white spray chalk, the excavator shall delineate the area in a manner that shall not be:

(1) Misleading to the public using affected streets and highways;
(2) Subject to misinterpretation as a traffic or pedestrian control; and
(3) Construed as duplicative.
(c) Where an excavator determines that delineating with white spray chalk may be misleading, misinterpreted, or duplicative as specified under subsection (b), the excavator shall inform the center that the area to be excavated shall instead be identified with flags, stakes, or stake chasers marked with the excavator’s name, abbreviations, or initials, to enable the operator to determine the area of excavation.

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