---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 6102"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "6102"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/6102"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — General and Intermodal Programs"
  - "Chapter 61 — One-Call Notification Programs"
---

# §6102. Definitions


In this chapter, the following definitions apply:

- (1) **One-call notification system.—** The term “one-call notification system” means a system operated by an organization that has as 1 of its purposes to receive notification from excavators of intended excavation in a specified area in order to disseminate such notification to underground facility [operators](/usc/49/30501.md?p=6) that are members of the system so that such [operators](/usc/49/30501.md?p=6) can locate and mark their facilities in order to prevent damage to underground facilities in the course of such excavation.
- (2) **State one-call notification program.—** The term “State one-call notification program” means the [State](#3) statutes, regulations, orders, judicial decisions, and other elements of law and policy in effect in a [State](#3) that establish the requirements for the operation of [one-call notification systems](#1) in such [State](#3).
- (3) **State.—** The term “State” means a State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
- (4) **Secretary.—** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of [Transportation](/usc/49/13907.md?p=e-2).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–178, title VII, § 7302(a), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 478.)