General Duties of Notification Center

Sec. 251.102. GENERAL DUTIES OF NOTIFICATION CENTER. A notification center shall: (1) operate 24 hours a day every day of the year; (2) have the capability to receive emergency information 24 hours a day from excavators and disseminate the information as soon as it is received to the appropriate operators and to all registered and affected notification centers operating in this state; (3) have the capacity to receive extraordinary circumstance information 24 hours a day from operators and disseminate the information as soon as it is received to all registered and affected notification centers; (4) submit to the corporation, not later than May 15 of each year, a pro rata share of the expense, as established by the corporation, of the statewide toll-free telephone number and the call router; (5) provide, on request of an excavator, a contact name and telephone number of a representative of the operator for special circumstances; and (6) have personnel capable of assisting Spanish-speaking customers. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 18.17(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.