220 ILCS 50/5.2

(220 ILCS 50/5.2)

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

Sec. 5.2. Planning design request.

(a) An underground utility facility owner or operator shall have the following responsibilities:

(1) respond to a valid planning design request within 10 days after receiving the request or by such other date as shall be mutually agreed upon between the underground utility facility owner or operator and the designer or planner. The underground utility facility owner or operator shall provide information regarding the location, size, if greater than 1.5 inches in diameter, which shall be generically listed as communication, electric, gas, water, sewer, streetlight, or traffic control and if direct buried or in conduit or a duct package, of facilities based on the best information available to the underground utility facility owner or operator within the scope of the proposed project;

(2) respond to a planning design request in one of the following methods:

(A) provide the most current digital, KMZ file or shapefile, or paper drawings or prints, that are drawn to scale, when available, and include visible utility structures, including measurements from back of curb, sidewalk, edge of pavement, centerline of ditch, property lines, and other similar items;

(B) request the proposed plans or drawings from the designer or planner and illustrate the location of the underground utility facility owner's or operator's facilities, drawn to scale, and, if available, provide the type and size, as described in paragraph (1), of the facilities, including visible structures on the plans;

(C) locate and mark the underground utility facility owner's or operator's facilities within the scope of the proposed project, as agreed to with the planner or designer;

(D) if the responding underground utility facility owner or operator is unable to comply with paragraph (A) or (B), then the underground utility facility owner or operator shall mark the facilities within the scope of the proposed project, as agreed to with the planner or designer; or

(E) if marking of infrastructure is the preferred or required response of the underground utility facility owner or operator, the underground utility facility owner or operator need only mark main line facilities or any service lines that would otherwise be considered main line due to size or type, as described in paragraph (1); and

(3) may charge a nominal fee to locate and mark the proposed project, as described in subparagraph (C) or (D) of paragraph (2).

(b) The planner or designer shall have the following responsibilities:

(1) follow the guidelines set forth in CI/ASCE 38-02 Standard Guidelines for the Collection and Depiction of Existing Subsurface Utility Data, as from time to time amended, when preparing plans or drawings;

(2) illustrate on all appropriate documents the position, size, and type, as described in paragraph (1) of subsection (a), of all known facilities obtained in the planning design request process and include the valid planning design request number provided by JULIE on any plans or drawings; and

(3) make all reasonable efforts to prepare the plans or drawings to minimize interference with known existing and proposed facilities in the proposed project area.

(c) A planning design request shall include the following information:

(1) name, address, telephone number, office and cell phone, and, if available, email address of the designated contact requesting the information;

(2) name, address, telephone number, office and cell phone, and, if available, email address of the project owner;

(3) the approximate date when the facility information is required; and

(4) the specific area requiring facility information by one or more of the following means:

(A) the county and place or places involved in the proposed project;

(B) street names involved in the proposed project or the north, south, east, and west boundaries of the proposed project or the section number or numbers involved in the proposed project;

(C) latitude and longitude coordinates of the outside edges of the proposed project;

(D) digital data such as, but not limited to, shapefiles when technology and software allow; and

(E) the type of work projected to take place within the proposed project.

Any known site-specific facility information shall be made available to the project owner to be delivered to qualified bidders of the proposed project.

(Source: P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)