Ariz. Admin. Code § 14-2-106

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 21, May 24, 2024

Section R14-2-106 - Commission Color Code to Identify Location of Underground Facilities

A. If the location of an underground facility is marked with stakes, paint, or in some customary manner pursuant to A.R.S. § 40-360.21(13), the facility owner will use the following color code:

Facility Type

Specific Color

Electric Power Distribution and Transmission

Safety Red

Gas Distribution and Transmission; Oil Product Distribution and Transmission; Dangerous Materials, Product Lines

High Visibility Safety Yellow

Telephone and Telegraph System; Cable Television

Safety Alert Orange

Fiber Optics Communication Lines

The Letter "F" in Safety Alert Orange

Water Systems; Slurry Pipelines

Safety Precaution Blue

Reclaimed Water Systems

Purple

Sanitary Sewer Systems

Safety Green

UNACCEPTABLE FACILITY LOCATION COLORS:

Fluorescent Pink - This shall be considered a land surveyor marking.

White - This shall be reserved for excavator markings.

B. Excavators and Underground Facility Owners shall consider use of the color fluorescent pink to be indicative of land survey markings and not location markings for any underground facility. Surveyors may place aerial photogrammetric markings (targets) using the color white; such marking shall have a fluorescent pink dot not less than two inches in diameter placed within one foot of any edge of the aerial marking. Fluorescent pink shall not be used by excavators or Underground Facility Owners.

C. Excavators making markings pursuant to A.R.S. § 40-360.22(C) are required to use the color white.

D. Colors similar to those listed in R14-2-106(A) through R14-2-106(C) shall not be used for other than their listed purpose.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R14-2-106

Adopted effective September 5, 1986 (Supp. 86-5). Amended effective June 4, 1993, under an exemption from the Attorney General certification requirements of the Arizona Administrative Procedure Act (Supp. 93-2). Amended effective August 16, 1996 (Supp. 96-3). Amended by final rulemaking at 8 A.A.R. 971, effective February 19, 2002 (Supp. 02-1).