Section 16-345 - DefinitionsAs used in this chapter:
(1) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association, including a person engaged as a contractor by a public agency but excluding a public agency.(2) "Public agency" means the state or any political subdivision thereof, including any governmental agency.(3) "Public utility" means the owner or operator of underground facilities for furnishing electric, gas, telephone, communications, pipeline, sewage, water, community television antenna, steam, traffic signal, fire signal or similar service, including a municipal or other public owner or operator. A public utility does not include the owner of facilities for utility service solely for such owner's private residence.(4) "Central clearinghouse" means the organization organized and operated by public utilities pursuant to section 16-348 for the purposes of receiving and giving notice of excavation, discharge of explosives and demolition activity within the state.(5) "Excavation" means an operation for the purposes of movement or removal of earth, rock or other materials in or on the ground, or otherwise disturbing the subsurface of the earth, by the use of powered or mechanized equipment, including but not limited to digging, blasting, auguring, back filling, test boring, drilling, pile driving, grading, plowing-in, hammering, pulling-in, trenching, tunneling, dredging, reclamation processes and milling; excluding the tilling of soil for agricultural purposes. For the purposes of this subdivision, dredging does not include dredging associated with the production and harvesting of aquaculture crops.(6) "Demolition" means the wrecking, razing, rending, moving or removing of any structure.(7) "Damage" includes, but is not limited to, the substantial weakening of structural or lateral support of a utility facility such that the continued integrity of such utility facility is imperiled, penetration or destruction of any utility facility protective coating, housing or other protective device or the severance, partial or complete, of any utility facility.(8) "Approximate location of an underground utility facility" means a strip of land not more than three feet wide centered on the actual location of an underground utility facility or a strip of land extending not more than one and one-half feet on either side of the actual location of an underground utility facility.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-345
(P.A. 77-350, S. 1; P.A. 95-79, S. 53, 189; P.A. 98-28, S. 103, 117; P.A. 99-31, S. 8; P.A. 14-94, S. 38; 14-134, S. 33; P.A. 15-12, S. 3.)
Amended by P.A. 15-0012, S. 3 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2015 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2015.Amended by P.A. 14-0094, S. 38 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2014 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2015.Amended by P.A. 14-0134, S. 33 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2014 Regular Session, eff. 6/6/2014. Cited. 12 Conn.App. 499.