69-4-520. Underground facility protection advisory council. (1) There is an underground facility protection advisory council consisting of 11 members.
(2) Members must be appointed by the governor as follows:
(a) one member representing owners or operators of an underground facility that is a jurisdictional pipeline in Montana that is not a public utility as defined in 69-3-101;
(b) one member representing a public utility, as defined in 69-3-101, that owns an underground facility that is a jurisdictional pipeline in Montana;
(c) one member representing a public utility, as defined in 69-3-101, that owns an underground facility that is an electric distribution or transmission line in Montana;
(d) one member representing a rural electric cooperative operating in Montana;
(e) one member representing a telecommunications provider with more than 50,000 subscriber lines in Montana;
(f) one member representing a telecommunications provider with less than 50,000 subscriber lines in Montana;
(g) one member representing a municipal sewer or water system or a municipal water supply system established by the governing body of a municipality pursuant to Title 7, chapter 13, parts 42, 43, and 44;
(h) one member representing a local government utility that is a county or consolidated city and county water or sewer district as defined in Title 7, chapter 13, parts 22 and 23;
(i) one member representing an authority as defined in 75-6-304; and
(j) two members representing excavators.
(3) The council's membership may not include more than one representative from the same partnership, firm, joint venture, corporation, association, municipality, governmental unit, department, or agency, including corporate subsidiaries or affiliates.
(4) The council is allocated to the department of labor and industry for administrative purposes only as prescribed in 2-15-121.
(5) The appointed members serve staggered terms of 3 years. The initial appointments are as follows: two members for 1-year terms, four members for 2-year terms, and five members for 3-year terms.
(6) Members of the council are not entitled to compensation for their services.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 326, L. 2017.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 69. Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 4. Utility Lines and Facilities
Part 5. Excavations Near Underground Facilities
69-4-502. Information to be sought before excavation -- notification -- exceptions
69-4-503. Notification -- locating and marking
69-4-504. Information to be part of architects' and engineers' plans
69-4-507. Public authority -- liability
69-4-508. Emergency location and excavation
69-4-509. and 69-4-510 reserved
69-4-515. through 69-4-519 reserved
69-4-520. Underground facility protection advisory council
69-4-522. Duties of department -- rulemaking
69-4-523. Tort liability for underground facility damage
69-4-524. Underground facilities damage -- excavator civil penalties
69-4-525. Underground facilities damage -- underground facility owner civil penalties
69-4-526. Civil penalty -- mediation -- contested case hearing -- procedures
69-4-527. Underground facility protection account -- statutory appropriation
69-4-528. Notification center grants
69-4-529. Incident reports -- notification of damage -- fines