Alabama § 37-15-4.1 - Design or Survey Locate Requests.
Full text of Alabama Code of Alabama § 37-15-4.1 — Design or Survey Locate Requests., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 37-15-4.1. Design or Survey Locate Requests.
(a) Any person may submit a design or survey locate request to the One-Call Notification System. The design or survey locate request shall describe the tract or parcel of land for which the design or survey locate request has been submitted with sufficient particularity as defined by policies developed by the One-Call Notification System to enable the facility operator to ascertain the precise tract or parcel of land involved. The request shall state the name, address, and telephone number of the person who has submitted the design or survey locate request and the company name of the project owner.
(b) Within five working days after a design or survey locate request has been submitted to the One-Call Notification System for a proposed project, the operator shall respond by one of the following methods:
(1) Marking the approximate location of all underground facilities in the area of proposed excavation.
(2) Providing to the person submitting the design or survey locate request the best available description of all underground facilities in the area of proposed excavation which may include drawings of underground facilities already built in the area or other facility records that are maintained by the facility operator.
(3) Allowing the person submitting the design or survey locate request or any other authorized person to inspect or copy the drawings or other records for all underground facilities within the proposed area of excavation.
(4) The complex or large project process as provided in Section 37-15-4.2 may be used for complex or large survey or design projects.
Source: official Alabama text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 37-15-4.1 ("Design or Survey Locate Requests.") is part of the Code of Alabama, the codified statutory law of Alabama. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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