No person, public agency, or public utility shall engage in excavation in the approximate location of public utility facilities or discharge explosives or demolish a structure containing a public utility facility without having first ascertained in the manner prescribed in this chapter the location of all public utility facilities or public utilities in the area or the absence thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 39-1.2-2
Excavation or demolition near public utility
P.L. 1984, ch. 119, § 1; P.L. 1998, ch. 367, § 1.
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