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2024 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 490
BY SENATOR CATHEY
UTILITIES. Provides for distribution to governing authorities regarding certain excavations
or demolitions of certain underground utilities. (8/1/24)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 40:1749.21(B), relative to permits for excavation or demolition;
3 to provide for information from regional notification centers to be distributed; and
4 to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:1749.21(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง1749.21. Miscellaneous provisions
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9 B. Nothing in this Part shall affect any permitting process granted to a parish,
10 municipal, local, or state governing authority. If a permit is issued in conjunction
11 with excavation or demolition subject to the provisions of this Part, upon issuing the
12 permit, the governing authority is encouraged to distribute to the permittee
13 information regarding compliance with the provisions of this Part. The regional
14 notification centers shall provide furnish the information to the governing authority
15 for distribution. The failure of the governing authority to distribute furnish the
16 information shall not for that reason alone create any liability on the part of the
17 governing authority or permittee nor otherwise reduce or limit the duties and
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1 responsibilities of excavators or demolishers under this Part.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Thomas L. Tyler.
DIGEST
SB 490 Original 2024 Regular Session Cathey
Present law requires that regional notification centers provide certain information to a
governing authority relative to certain excavation or demolition of underground utilities and
facilities.
Proposed law requires that notification center furnish this information to governing
authorities.
Present law provides that failure of the governing authority to distribute the information shall
not for that reason alone create any liability on the part of the governing authority or
permittee nor otherwise reduce or limit the duties and responsibilities of excavators or
demolishers.
Proposed law provides that failure to furnish this information does not for that reason alone
create any liability on the part of the governing authority or permittee nor otherwise reduce
or limit the duties and responsibilities of excavators or demolishers.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amend R.S. 40:1749.21(B))
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