# Responsibility to protect and preserve marking

- **operation:** document
- **citation:** 20VAC5-309-170
- **title:** Responsibility to protect and preserve marking
- **source type:** regulation
- **agency:** Virginia State Corporation Commission
- **status:** current
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2001-07-01
- **effective on:** 2001-07-01
- **summary:** Every excavator shall be responsible to reasonably protect and preserve markings from the time the excavator begins work until markings are no longer required for the proper and safe excavation near the utility line.
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Every excavator shall be responsible to reasonably protect and preserve markings from the time the excavator begins work until markings are no longer required for the proper and safe excavation near the utility line.
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