PRINTER'S NO. 2971
No. 2253 Session of 1976
INTRODUCED BY McCUE, MARCH 24, 1976
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, MARCH 24, 1976
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 10, 1974 (P.L.852, No.287),
2 entitled "An act to protect the public health and safety by
3 preventing excavation or demolition work from damaging
4 underground lines used in providing electricity,
5 communication, gas, oil delivery, oil product delivery,
6 sewage, water or other service; imposing duties upon the
7 providers of such service, recorders of deeds, and persons
8 and other entities preparing drawings or performing
9 excavation or demolition work; and prescribing penalties,"
10 providing an exception to certain requirements under the act.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. The act of December 10, 1974 (P.L.852, No.287),
14 entitled "An act to protect the public health and safety by
15 preventing excavation or demolition work from damaging
16 underground lines used in providing electricity, communication,
17 gas, oil delivery, oil product delivery, sewage, water or other
18 service; imposing duties upon the providers of such service,
19 recorders of deeds, and persons and other entities preparing
20 drawings or performing excavation or demolition work; and
21 prescribing penalties," is amended by adding a section to read:
22 Section 5.1. The duties imposed by this act upon designers
1 and contractors shall not apply when the owner of the real
2 property on which the excavation or demolition is to take place
3 has determined by a thorough search of the records in the
4 appropriate recorder of deeds' office that there are no user's
5 lines recorded as crossing said owner's property.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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