Hawaii: 5 working days before you dig.
Hawaii One Call Center (Hawaii 811) · HRS §§269E-7, 269E-12
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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.
Notice before you break ground
5 working days
Five working days, and not more than twenty-eight calendar days ahead — the longest ordinary wait in the country. A working day runs 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., so an evening filing starts counting the next morning.
Ticket good for
28 calendar days from when the ticket goes out to the utilities
Worth knowing in Hawaii
Price the five working days into any Hawaii start date — it is more than double the mainland norm and it is not waivable outside an emergency. Your inquiry identification number runs twenty-eight calendar days from issue and you must hold a valid one for the whole dig, so a long job gets revalidated before it lapses, not after. No tolerance width is shown because Hawaii does not set one by distance: §269E-12 bans power-driven equipment within the approximate location of a line until you have hand-dug down to the full depth of the excavation. Pavement removal is the exception, and the operator can agree otherwise in writing.
Common questions about digging in Hawaii
- How much notice do you have to give before digging in Hawaii?
- 5 working days before you break ground, through Hawaii One Call Center (Hawaii 811). Five working days, and not more than twenty-eight calendar days ahead — the longest ordinary wait in the country. A working day runs 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., so an evening filing starts counting the next morning.
- How long is an 811 ticket good for in Hawaii?
- 28 calendar days from when the ticket goes out to the utilities.
Check it yourself
Every figure here was read off HRS §§269E-7, 269E-12, 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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