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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 73. TRADE AND COMMERCE
CHAPTER 3. EXPLOSIVES, REGULATION
EXCAVATION AND DEMOLITION
Date:
08/31/2009
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NOTICE: As to expiration of this section on December 31, 2016, see 73 P.S. § 182.7.
§ 178. Duties of One Call System
It shall be the duty of the One Call System to do the following:
(1.1) To assign one or more serial numbers and the date that the site may legally be excavated and to log the entire voice transaction on logging recorders in appropriate digital form and maintain these logs for five years. All records shall be indexed and available to the parties involved at a reasonable cost and at reasonable times set by the One Call System.
(1.2) Perform the obligations, as set forth under this section, on behalf of the facility owner, excavator or designer as established by the board of directors of the One Call System.
(1.3) Provide access to municipal lists provided to the One Call System for those interested parties. This list shall contain facility owners having lines in the municipality, including wards as indicated in subclause (ii) of clause (1) of section 2, and to maintain, for each municipality, a list containing the information as required to be submitted by the facility owner. Such list shall be updated as revised information is received from the facility owner within five business days.
(2) To make such lists under clause (1.3) available for public inspection via the county recorder of deeds without charge. A maximum copy fee of no more than twenty-five dollars ($ 25) may be charged per county list. Each facility owner change shall be forwarded, at no charge, to the respective county recorder of deeds for public access. The recorder of deeds shall make such list available for public inspection based on the most current information provided to it by the One Call System.
(3) Not more than ten business days after the receipt of a clear and specific request from the department, to provide access to or photocopies of specific One Call System response records, tickets or other like information relating to matters under investigation by the department pursuant to its enforcement authority under this act.
(4) To determine the maximum geographic area that shall constitute a valid single notification and to determine when multiple notifications shall be required of any person, including the method, the type and the number of notifications in a complex project.
(5) If approved by the board of directors of the One Call System, to offer a service for the application and obtaining of State or municipal permits for excavation work. Issuance of the required permits shall be the responsibility of the appropriate State or municipal agency which has jurisdiction over the type of excavation work being performed.
(6) Pursuant to policies adopted by the One Call System's board of directors, to provide a secure repository for and access to subsurface utility engineering data received from project owners to affected facility owner members.
(7) To inquire, when an excavator has notified the One Call System of the existence of a release of natural gas or other hazardous substance or of potential danger to life, health or property, whether the excavator has notified the 911 system. If the 911 system has not been notified, the One Call System shall notify the excavator of the excavator's responsibility to notify the 911 system and shall make a record of the conversation.
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