Wyoming: 2 business days before you dig.
One-Call of Wyoming · W.S. §37-12-302
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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
2 business days
At least two full business days, and not more than fourteen business days ahead.
Ticket good for
14 business days from the day you call
Worth knowing in Wyoming
Wyoming makes you WHITE-LINE first. Under subsection (m) you mark the path of your own excavation before the locator arrives, and the operator's duty to mark does not begin until you have. A crew that calls and waits without premarking is waiting on nothing. No tolerance width is shown here, and the twenty-four inches everyone quotes is why: that figure is how close the OPERATOR's paint has to be to the line, not a zone you must hand-dig. What the statute actually asks of the excavator is subsection (g) — 'hand digging or soft digging, as necessary' — with no width attached. The fourteen business days is a renotification cadence rather than a stated expiry, but a single project running longer means calling again on that schedule.
Common questions about digging in Wyoming
- How much notice do you have to give before digging in Wyoming?
- 2 business days before you break ground, through One-Call of Wyoming. At least two full business days, and not more than fourteen business days ahead.
- How long is an 811 ticket good for in Wyoming?
- 14 business days from the day you call.
Check it yourself
Every figure here was read off W.S. §37-12-302, 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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