Florida Statute 556.104 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS

Chapter 556
UNDERGROUND FACILITY DAMAGE PREVENTION AND SAFETY

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556.104 Free-access notification system.—The corporation shall maintain a free-access notification system. Any person who furnishes or transports materials or services by means of an underground facility in this state shall participate as a member operator of the system. The purpose of the system is to receive notification of planned excavation or demolition activities and to notify member operators of the planned excavation or demolition activities. The system shall provide a single toll-free telephone number within this state which excavators can use to notify member operators of planned excavation or demolition activities, and the system may also provide additional modes of access at no cost to the user.

History.—s. 4, ch. 93-240; s. 4, ch. 97-306; s. 3, ch. 2002-234; s. 4, ch. 2006-138.

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Martin v. Florida Power & Light Co., 909 So. 2d 555 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2005 WL 2086189

...nd various underground facilities operators. See § 556.103, Fla. Stat. (1997). It operates a toll-free telephone number that allows excavators to give notification to all utilities in a single phone call of their intent to engage in excavation. See § 556.104, Fla....

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Peoples Gas Sys., etc. v. Posen Constr., Inc., etc. (Fla. 2021).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...See §§ 556.101(2), (3)(b), 556.103, Fla. Stat. (2010). The Act also established a statewide one-call, toll-free notification system for persons to give notice of their intent to excavate to owners of underground facilities in the area to be excavated. See § 556.104, Fla....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1995).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...Stat. (1993), as "any person who furnishes or transports materials or services by means of an underground facility and who elects to participate as a member of the one-call notification center for any portion of the territory served by the person." 5 Section 556.104 , Fla....

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