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An Act To Make Changes to the So-called Dig Safe Law
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 23 MRSA §3360-A, sub-§1, ¶E, as amended by PL 2011, c. 588, §2, is further amended to read:
 
E. "Underground facility" means any item of personal property buried or placed below ground for use in connection with the storage or conveyance of water, sewage, electronic, telephonic or telegraphic communications, electric energy, oil, gas or other substances and including, but not limited to, pipes, sewers, conduits, cables, valves, lines, wires, manholes, attachments, appurtenances and those parts of poles below ground. This definitionExcept for liquefied propane gas distribution systems that have a cumulative tank capacity of over 2,000 gallons, "underground facility" does not include liquefied propane gas distribution systems that are not included within the scope of 49 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 192 and. "Underground facility" does not include highway drainage culverts or under drains.
 
SUMMARY
This bill specifies that liquefied propane gas distribution systems that have a cumulative tank capacity of over 2,000 gallons are subject to the so-called Dig Safe Law.