69-4-513. Disposition of damage fees collected. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), damage fees collected by owners of underground facilities must be distributed to the appropriate one-call notification center. The damage fee must be used to fund training and educational programs and materials for excavators and the general public regarding the one-call notification system.
(2) The underground facility owner is not liable for the distribution of damage fees to the one-call notification center in the event that those fees are not collected from the excavator.