Arizona: read this before you schedule.
Arizona 811 — still Blue Stake to everyone who digs · A.R.S. §40-360.22
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A waiting period is not always permission. Some states also require that every operator has answered before you break ground, and some require you to mark your own dig path first. Where we have read that requirement, it is in the notes on this page. Where this page is silent, we have not checked it yet — silence here is not the same as absence. We are working through the rest and dating each one as it lands.
Read this before you schedule
Arizona does not run on a waiting period. You may not break ground until marking is complete or you are told marking is unnecessary — however long that takes. The operator has two working days to get it done; that is their deadline, not your countdown.
Ticket good for
15 working days from when marking is finished
Worth knowing in Arizona
The two working days crews quote for Arizona is the operator's marking deadline under subsection B, not a period you can wait out and then dig. Note also that ticket life runs from the date of MARKING, not from the date you called — so a slow locate does not eat your fifteen days, it postpones the start of them. Large projects have their own rule: notify as soon as possible but not less than fifteen business days or twenty-one calendar days before the proposed start. No tolerance width is shown; the statute sets none. Subsection E does require you to keep 'sufficient clearance' between a bore path and a marked facility without ever saying how much.
Common questions about digging in Arizona
- How long do you have to wait before digging in Arizona?
- Arizona does not run on a waiting period. You may not break ground until marking is complete or you are told marking is unnecessary — however long that takes. The operator has two working days to get it done; that is their deadline, not your countdown.
- How long is an 811 ticket good for in Arizona?
- 15 working days from when marking is finished.
Check it yourself
Every figure here was read off A.R.S. §40-360.22, not off a summary — summaries of these get the unit wrong, and the unit is usually a weekend. Read the source.
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