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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the notification of a landowner by a notification |
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center of a planned excavation. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 251.153(c), Utilities Code, is amended |
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to read as follows: |
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(c) Not later than two hours after the time the notification |
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center receives a notice of intent to excavate from an excavator or |
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from a different notification center, the notification center shall |
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notify: |
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(1) each member operator that may have an underground |
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facility in the vicinity of the proposed excavation operation; and |
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(2) each owner of land in the proposed area of |
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excavation. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |