(a)  Notification.- Excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, at least 48 hours, but not more than 10 working days before starting an excavation or demolition, a person that intends to perform an excavation or demolition in the State shall notify by telephone, either directly or through a one-call system, each owner of the person's intent to perform an excavation or demolition. 

(b)  Renotification.- A person shall repeat the notification required under subsection (a) of this section if: 

(1) the excavation or demolition did not begin within 10 working days; or 

(2) the excavation or demolition is to be expanded beyond its original location. 

(c)  Notification from all applicable owners.- A person may begin excavation or demolition only if the person contacts or receives notification from the owner-contractor information exchange system of the one-call system confirming that all applicable owners have either marked their underground facilities or reported that they have no underground facilities in the vicinity of the excavation or demolition. 

(d)  Duty of care.- A person shall exercise due care to avoid interference with or damage to an underground facility that an owner has marked in accordance with § 12-110 of this subtitle. 

(e)  Damage to or disturbance of underground facility.- The person performing an excavation or demolition immediately shall notify the owner of the facility if the person discovers or causes any damage to or dislocation or disturbance of an underground facility in connection with any excavation or demolition. 

[An. Code 1957, art. 78, § 28A(e), (g); 1998, ch. 8, § 2; 2001, ch. 629.]