Sec. 251.102.  GENERAL DUTIES OF NOTIFICATION CENTER.  A notification center shall:
(1)  operate 24 hours a day every day of the year;
(2)  have the capability to receive emergency information 24 hours a day from excavators and disseminate the information as soon as it is received to the appropriate operators and to all registered and affected notification centers operating in this state;
(3)  have the capacity to receive extraordinary circumstance information 24 hours a day from operators and disseminate the information as soon as it is received to all registered and affected notification centers;
(4)  submit to the corporation, not later than May 15 of each year, a pro rata share of the expense, as established by the corporation, of the statewide toll-free telephone number and the call router;
(5)  provide, on request of an excavator, a contact name and telephone number of a representative of the operator for special circumstances;  and
(6)  have personnel capable of assisting Spanish-speaking customers.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 18.17(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.