Vermont § 7001 - Definitions In this chapter:

§ 7001. Definitions In this chapter:

• (1) “Commission” means the Public Utility Commission under section 3 of this title. (2) “Company” means any public utility, municipality, or person that supplies gas, electricity,
  hot water, steam, or telecommunications service and that maintains underground utility
  facilities, and any cable television company operating a cable television system as
  defined in section 501 of this title that maintains underground utility facilities. (3) “Damage” includes the substantial weakening of structural or lateral support of an
  underground utility facility; penetration or destruction of any underground utility
  facility’s protective coating, housing, or device; or the partial or complete severance
  of any underground utility facility. (4) “Excavation activities” means any activities that will disturb the subsurface of the
  earth or could damage underground utility facilities and that may involve the removal
  of earth, rock, or other materials in the ground or the demolition of any structure
  by the discharge of explosives or the use of powered or mechanized equipment, including
  digging, trenching, blasting, boring, drilling, hammering, post driving, wrecking,
  razing, tunneling, or pavement or concrete slab removal within 100 feet of an underground
  utility facility