Arizona Administrative Code
Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION
Chapter 2 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - FIXED UTILITIES
Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISION
Section R14-2-106 - Commission Color Code to Identify Location of Underground Facilities
Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024
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.
