Except as provided in § 16-352, a person, public agency or public utility responsible for excavating, discharging explosives or demolishing shall notify the central clearinghouse of such proposed excavation, discharge or demolition in the manner prescribed by regulations adopted pursuant to § 16-357. Such notice shall include the name, address and telephone number of the person, public agency or public utility performing the excavation, discharge of explosives or demolition and the date, location and type of excavation, demolition or discharge of explosives. The central clearinghouse shall immediately transmit such information to the public utilities whose facilities may be affected. In the event the proposed excavation, demolition or discharge of explosives has not been completed within the allotted time frame prescribed by regulation of such notification, or the excavation, demolition or discharge of explosives will be expanded outside of the location originally specified in such notification, the person, public agency or public utility responsible for such excavation, demolition or discharge of explosives shall again notify the central clearinghouse in the manner prescribed by regulations adopted pursuant to § 16-357.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 16-349

  • Central clearinghouse: means the organization organized and operated by public utilities pursuant to §. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
  • Demolition: means the wrecking, razing, rending, moving or removing of any structure. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
  • Excavation: means an operation for the purposes of movement or removal of earth, rock or other materials in or on the ground, or otherwise disturbing the subsurface of the earth, by the use of powered or mechanized equipment, including but not limited to digging, blasting, auguring, back filling, test boring, drilling, pile driving, grading, plowing-in, hammering, pulling-in, trenching, tunneling, dredging, reclamation processes and milling. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association, including a person engaged as a contractor by a public agency but excluding a public agency. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
  • Public agency: means the state or any political subdivision thereof, including any governmental agency. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
  • Public utility: means the owner or operator of underground facilities for furnishing electric, gas, telephone, communications, pipeline, sewage, water, community television antenna, steam, traffic signal, fire signal or similar service, including a municipal or other public owner or operator. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-345
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