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For your safety and to prevent utility service outages, Florida law prohibits removing utility flags, locator marks, or paint marks from near any property in street rights-of-way or easements. These locator marks show where underground utility lines are located. Flag removal will possibly endanger an underground project, and it is a misdemeanor.
Utilities, power, or communication companies who own underground utilities place marks in the public utility easements or rights-of-way as a result of a call to Sunshine State One Call of Florida (SSOCOF), either by a resident or a company that plans to dig within specific properties or easements. Locator marks are good for 30 calendar days and can be renewed if the work continues beyond that time frame.
Locator marks or flags come in eight colors, to tell what type of utility is buried below:
• Blue: Potable water lines
• Purple: Reclaimed water, irrigation and slurry lines• Green: Sewer lines• Yellow: Gas, oil, steam petroleum or gaseous materials
• Red: Electric power lines, cables, conduit, and lighting cables• Orange: Communications, alarm or signal lines, cables or conduit
• Pink/Fuchsia: Temporary survey markings
• White: Proposed excavation
If you plan to dig anywhere in your yard or near public rights-of-way, you must call the Sunshine State One Call of Florida (SSOCOF) before you dig. You can call 811 or 1-800-432-4770.
For more information on utility locator marks or flags or to learn more about Florida Statute Chapter 556, visit www.CallSunshine.com or call 811.
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