R14-2-106. Commission Color Code to Identify Location of Underground Facilities

A. If the location of an underground facility is marked with stakes, paint, or in some customary manner pursuant to A.R.S. § 40-360.21(13), the facility owner will use the following color code: Facility Type Specific Color Electric Power Distribution and Transmission Safety Red Gas Distribution and Transmission; Oil Product Distribution and Transmission; Dangerous Materials, Product Lines High Visibility Safety Yellow Telephone and Telegraph System; Cable Television Safety Alert Orange Fiber Optics Communication Lines The Letter “F” in Safety Alert Orange Water Systems; Slurry Pipelines Safety Precaution Blue Reclaimed Water Systems Purple Sanitary Sewer Systems Safety Green UNACCEPTABLE FACILITY LOCATION COLORS: Fluorescent Pink - This shall be considered a land surveyor marking. White - This shall be reserved for excavator markings. B. Excavators and Underground Facility Owners shall consider use of the color fluorescent pink to be indicative of land survey markings and not location markings for any underground facility. Surveyors may place aerial photogrammetric markings (targets) using the color white; such marking shall have a fluorescent pink dot not less than two inches in diameter placed within one foot of any edge of the aerial marking. Fluorescent pink shall not be used by excavators or Underground Facility Owners. C. Excavators making markings pursuant to A.R.S. § 40- 360.22(C) are required to use the color white. D. Colors similar to those listed in R14-2-106(A) through R14-2- 106(C) shall not be used for other than their listed purpose.