The law requires the excavator or anyone working for the excavator to give notice no more than 10 days nor less than 48 hours, excluding Saturday, Sunday and legal holidays before excavation is set to begin.
Call Okie accepts routine locate requests via webticket or fax-a-locate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Emergency locates can be submitted via telephone 24/7. All locate types can be submitted via telephone during normal call center hours.
Call Okie business days are defined as Monday through Friday from 7am to 6pm. Routine locate requests allow member companies two business days to respond to the locate request and mark their facilities. Member companies are notified and respond to emergency locate requests upon receipt of the emergency request. Routine requests that are received outside the normal business days are processed so that the response period begins at 7am the next business day. Please check the Call Center Hours of Operation for current operating hours.
Routine requests can be submitted by web at any time, however, these requests will be processed as stated above.