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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 964
BY REPRESENTATIVE STUART BISHOP
TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for overhead power line information identified on
Dept. of Transportation and Development public work projects
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 38:2223(A)(4), relative to Department of Transportation and Development2
public works projects and overhead power lines; to require the Department of3
Transportation and Development to provide certain information pertaining to4
overhead power lines on plans for certain public works project; to provide relative5
to liability for damages in the event that such information is not provided; and to6
provide for related matters.7
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:8
Section 1. R.S. 38:2223(A)(4) is hereby enacted to read as follows:9
ยง2223. Issuance of work orders and commencement of work; underground utilities;10
overhead power lines11
A.12
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(4) On the plans for any public works project let by the Department of14
Transportation and Development, the department or design professional of record15
shall locate and illustrate all overhead power lines and wattage thereof and identify16
the owner of each and all such lines. If the department or design professional of17
record fails to locate and illustrate all overhead power lines and indicate the wattage18
and owner of each and all such lines, the contractor shall be released from any19
liability in connection with their damage unless such damage is caused by the20 HLS 14RS-1297 ORIGINAL
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negligence of the contractor. The chief engineer of the department shall direct that1
all projects that do not have a full topographic survey include information required2
by this Paragraph.3
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Stuart Bishop HB No. 964
Abstract: Requires all overhead power lines, their wattage, and owner to be illustrated or
identified on plans for Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD)
public works projects.
Proposed law requires DOTD or the design professional on the plans for any department
public works project, to locate and illustrate all overhead power lines and indicate the
wattage and identify the owner of each and all such lines.
Proposed law provides that if the department or design professional of record fails to locate
and illustrate all overhead power lines and indicate the wattage thereof and identify the
owner of each and all such lines that contractor shall be released from any liability in
connection with their damage unless such damage is caused by the negligence of the
contractor.
Proposed law requires the chief engineer of the department to direct that all projects that do
not have a full topographic survey include information required by proposed law.
(Adds R.S. 38:2223(A)(4))