Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXIX. Commerce and Trade § 367.4913.Duties of protection notification center; board of directors of Kentucky Contact Center; Kentucky Contact Center to serve all counties

(a) Provide locate request services during working days and provide an emergency contact number for incidents occurring outside the working day;

(b) Provide a positive response system for excavators, locators, operators, and other interested parties to determine the status of locating an underground facility;

(c) Provide any excavation request with an identification number and the names of the facility owners or operators who will be notified for each locate request;

(d) Promptly after receiving an excavation or demolition work notification from an excavator, provide to each of its affected operator members the excavator information required by KRS 367.4911(3);

(e) Maintain a list of all its operator members, their business addresses and their business and emergency telephone numbers and provide this information in accordance with KRS 64.012 with the county clerk of each county where the operator member has underground facilities. The county clerk shall provide this information upon request for the actual cost of providing a copy, to be paid by the requesting party to the county clerk. The county clerk shall assume no liability associated with the receipt of this information from the protection notification center or for subsequent provision of this same information to the requesting party;

(f) Make the operator members information list available to any person for inspection at its place of business without charge or provide a copy of the list to any person for any county upon request for a fee not to exceed the actual cost of providing a copy;

(g) Define and adopt policies and procedures for processing design information requests;

(h) Provide the person making a design information request a list of identified operators that will receive notification and notify those operators;

(i) Maintain the following information provided by excavators for all requests to locate facilities for at least five (5) years from the date of the request:

(j) Provide contact information for the protection notification center on its Web site or pursuant to paragraph (e) of this subsection; and

(k) Provide public awareness education and damage prevention programs in the manner and amount determined by each protection notification center.

(a) A natural gas provider;

(b) An electric provider;

(c) A telecommunications provider;

(d) A water/sewer provider;

(e) An interstate pipeline operator;

(f) A municipal utility operator;

(g) A commercial excavator;

(h) An oil and gas operator; and

(i) At least one (1) but not more than six (6) advisory, nonvoting members representing the following: