Georgia Code
Chapter 9 - Blasting or Excavating Near Underground Facilities
§ 25-9-8. Treatment of Underground Facilities by Blasters and Excavators; Emergency Notifications

History. Ga. L. 1969, p. 50, § 7; Code 1981, § 25-9-7 ; Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 805, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 780, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1142, § 7/SB 274; Ga. L. 2014, p. 652, § 5/SB 117; Ga. L. 2022, p. 325, § 1/HB 1372.
The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, rewrote subsection (b); added present subsection (c); and redesignated former subsections (c) and (d) as present subsections (d) and (e), respectively.
The 2022 amendment, effective September 1, 2022, substituted “underground” for “utility” throughout this Code section; substituted “blasting or excavating” for “excavating or blasting” in the first sentence in subsection (b) and the last sentence in subsection (e); in subsection (b), substituted “Such” for “This” at the beginning of the second sentence and inserted “shall” preceding “not” in the second sentence; in subsection (d), substituted “shall exercise” for “must exercise” in the first sentence, deleted the former second sentence, which read: “The recommendations of the HDD consortium applicable to the performance of trenchless excavation set out in the document ‘Horizontal Directional Drilling Good Practice Guidelines,’ dated May, 2001, are adopted by reference as a part of this subsection to describe such additional care.” and separated the former last sentence into the present last two sentences; in subsection (e), substituted “that” for “who”, and “as to” for “of” in the first sentence, and substituted “such notification” for “notice” and “such damage” for “the damage” in the second sentence; and added subsection (f).
Editor’s notes.
This Code section formerly provided for the degree of accuracy required of gas companies in providing pipe location and for the apportionment of liability for inaccurate information. Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1 in effect renumbered the former Code section as Code Section 25-9-9.
Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1 in effect renumbered former Code Section 25-9-7 as this Code section.

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