SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1730        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1498

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Providing for Enhanced Protection in the Marking of Underground Utility Lines..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.   Section 40 of Chapter 82 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the third paragraph:-

In providing the designations required by this section, the company shall not utilize personnel other than the company’s own permanent employees who have been trained to perform such work.