Georgia Code
Chapter 9 - Blasting or Excavating Near Underground Facilities
§ 25-9-6. Prerequisites to Blasting or Excavating; Marking of Sites

History. Ga. L. 1969, p. 50, § 5; Ga. L. 1975, p. 417, § 3; Code 1981, § 25-9-5 [repealed]; Code 1981, § 25-9-6 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 805, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 780, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1142, § 5/SB 274; Ga. L. 2014, p. 652, § 3/SB 117; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 25/HB 90; Ga. L. 2016, p. 239, § 1/SB 191; Ga. L. 2022, p. 325, § 1/HB 1372.
The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, substituted the present provisions of paragraph (a)(4) for the former provisions, which read: “Designate the date upon which the blasting or excavating will commence”; and added the last sentence in subsections (b) and (c).
The 2015 amendment, effective March 13, 2015, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “facilities either are” for “facilities are either” in the third sentence of the introductory language of subsection (a); and substituted “so as not to obstruct signs” for “so as to not to obstruct signs” in the last sentence of subsection (b).
The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, substituted “30 calendar days” for “21 calendar days” twice in subsection (c).
The 2022 amendment, effective September 1, 2022, rewrote subsection (a); in subsection (b), substituted “lining, as” for “paint, white stakes, or white flags if” in the first sentence and “using” for “with” in the second sentence; rewrote subsections (c) and (d); in subsection (e), substituted “any facility owner or operator” for “facility owners or operators” in the first sentence and “that” for “who” in the third sentence; in subsection (f), substituted “submitting a locate request” for “giving the notice”, substituted “48 hours” for “24 hours”, and substituted “notification” for “notice” at the end; and substituted “for their costs related to” for “their costs for” in the first sentence of subsection (h).
Editor’s notes.
This Code section formerly provided for a gas company’s duties upon being notified of proposed blasting or excavating. Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1 in effect renumbered the former Code section as Code Section 25-9-7.
Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1 in effect renumbered former Code Section 25-9-5 as this Code section.

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