Kansas Statutes 66-1810. Contact with or damage to facility; procedure; notification requirements
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 66-1810
- Damage: means any impact or contact with an underground facility, its appurtenances or its protective coating, or any weakening of the support for the facility or protective housing that requires repair. See Kansas Statutes 66-1802
- Emergency: means any condition constituting a clear and present danger to life, health or property, or a customer service outage. See Kansas Statutes 66-1802
- Excavator: means any person who engages directly in excavation activities within the state of Kansas, but shall not include any occupant of a dwelling who: (1) Uses such dwelling as a primary residence; and (2) excavates on the premises of such dwelling. See Kansas Statutes 66-1802
- Facility: means any sanitary sewer or underground line, system or structure used for transporting, gathering, storing, conveying, transmitting or distributing potable water, gas, electricity, communication, crude oil, refined or processed petroleum, petroleum products or hazardous liquids. See Kansas Statutes 66-1802
- Municipality: means any city, county, municipal corporation, public district or public authority located in whole or in part within this state that provides firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency medical or other emergency services. See Kansas Statutes 66-1802
- Notification center: means the statewide communication system operated by an organization which has as one of its purposes to receive and record notification of planned excavation in the state from excavators and to disseminate such notification of planned excavation to operators who are members and participants. See Kansas Statutes 66-1802
- Operator: means any person who owns or leases an underground tier 1 or tier 2 facility, except for any person who is the owner of real property wherein is located underground facilities for the purpose of furnishing services or materials only to such person or occupants of such property. See Kansas Statutes 66-1802
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
When any contact with or damage to any underground facility occurs, the excavator shall immediately notify the operator and the notification center. Upon receiving such notice, the operator immediately shall dispatch personnel to the location to provide necessary temporary or permanent repair of the damage. If the protective covering of an electrical line is penetrated or dangerous gases or fluids are escaping from a broken line, the excavator immediately shall inform emergency personnel of the municipality in which such electrical short or broken line is located and take any other action as may be reasonably necessary to protect persons and property and to minimize hazards until arrival of the operator’s personnel, emergency medical responders or first responders.