9-1.5-101. Legislative declaration.

Statute text

The purpose of this article is to prevent injury to persons and damage to property from accidents resulting from damage to underground facilities by excavation. This purpose shall be facilitated through the creation of a single statewide notification system to be administered by an association of the owners and operators of underground facilities. Through the association, excavators shall be able to obtain crucial information regarding the location of underground facilities prior to excavating and shall thereby be able to greatly reduce the likelihood of damage to any such underground facility or injury to any person working at an excavation site.

History

Source: L. 81: Entire article added, p. 520, 1, effective October 1. L. 93: Entire article amended, p. 498, 1, effective September 1.

Annotations

 

ANNOTATION

Annotations

This article does not create an implied waiver of sovereign immunity. This result is dictated by the lack of language in this article evincing an intent to waive the defense of sovereign immunity, combined with the clear intent of the Governmental Immunity Act to limit the circumstances in which the state or public entities will be liable for tort damages and the court's history of narrowly construing waivers of sovereign immunity. Dept. of Hwys. v. Mtn. States Tel., 869 P.2d 1289 (Colo. 1994) (decided under law in effect prior to repeal of 9-1.5-104).