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Ticket Check® in Delaware

1.866.821.4226

In advance of legislation, the Board of Directors of USPCD has agreed to participate in the Ticket Check® System. The system went online in Delaware on September 4, 2007. All utilities in the state of Delaware are required to provide a positive response to all locate requests, excluding Designer and Meeting tickets. Note: Emergency tickets were made accessible via Ticket Check on April 1, 2008.

Ticket Check® recognizes state holidays and will not calculate Saturday and Sunday as working days. Delaware working days are Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

As an excavator, you can contact Ticket Check® by calling a special toll-free number, 1.866.821.4226. A voice will prompt you through the steps to retrieve statuses on your tickets. You will be asked to enter your 10-digit contractor id number. Please use the contact telephone number you provided when you called Miss Utility. Again, this is the callback telephone number that you provided to the operator. Ticket Check® will identify the telephone number on each individual ticket, if this information changes, make sure you use the telephone number that was used at the time of each call. You may also use Search & Status® by going to www.missutility.net to view/print tickets and their Ticket Check® statuses.

For further information on how to utilize this system, contact the Miss Utility Help Desk at (410) 712-0056 and ask for extension 4040. You are also welcome to attend our monthly USPCD meetings where this topic will be, and has been, discussed in depth. These meetings are held the third Thursday of every month in various locations along the Delmarva Peninsula. Please visit www.missutilitydelmarva.com for meeting locations.

Locator Assigned Status Codes:

Locators will use the following "Status Codes" to communicate each tickets locate status:

Rules for locators use of the status codes:

• If the ticket is not statused by 7am the third working day, the locators will only be able to status with a code 1, code 2, code 5, code 9, code 10, code 11, code 12, code 13, code 14 or code 15.
• If code 1 is selected, it will be locked out as the final selection. The locator cannot change or delete a code 1 response. .
• If code 2 is selected, the only code it can be updated to is a code 1.
• If code 3 or code 4 is selected, it must be updated to a code 1, code 2, code 5, code 9, code 10, code 11, code 12, code 13, code 14 or code 15.
• If code 5 is selected, it can only be updated to a code 1 or code 2; If a ticket is statused with a code 5 within the ten working days from the original date of the call then an updated status of a code 1 or 2 will be allowed until the one hundred twentieth (120) calendar day from the original call date. Locators will be permitted to change from a code 2 to a code 1 but not visa-versa.
• If code 9 is selected, it will be locked out as the final selection. The locators cannot change or delete a code 9 response.
• If code 10(A) is selected, it will be locked out as the final selection. The locators cannot change or delete a code 10 response.
• If code 11(B) is selected, it will be locked out as the final selection. The locators cannot change or delete a code 11 response.
• If code 12(C) is selected, it can only be updated to a code 1 or code 2.
• If code 13(D) is selected, it will be locked out as the final selection. The locators cannot change or delete a code 13 response.
• If code 14(E) is selected, it can only be updated to a code 1, code 2 or code 5.
• If code 15(F) is selected, it can only be updated to a code 1, code 2 or code 5.
• If the ticket is cancelled in the center, it becomes "locked" whereby locators cannot add or change a response.

Locator's Status Comment:

Status Comments may be added to all Ticket Check status codes as follows:

• Upload with status via ftp, batch upload and/or web ONLY; not the IVR
• One Status Comment permitted per status code. Only when a status code is inserted should any comments also be added. If a status fails to be inserted based on the Ticket Check rules, the comment for that status code will also fail
• Status Comments are restricted to a maximum of 200 characters each.

Excavator Assigned Status Codes:

• When a ticket is statused with a code 1 or 2 (clear or marked), the excavator will get a message “(Member Name) is marked or clear. If you have a conflict with this locate status, press 6 to send a discrepancy ticket or press 2 to continue” (for touch-tone service). For non touch-tone service, say 6 to send a discrepancy ticket or say 2 to continue.
• When a ticket is statused with a code 5 (not complete/in progress), the excavator will get a message “(Member Name) is not complete, in progress. You or your company has been contacted by the locator for this facility. If you dispute that you have been contacted by the locator, press 7 to log your complaint or press 2 to continue” (for touch-tone). For non touch-tone service, say 7 to log your complaint or say 2 to continue.

Status Information Delivery to Excavators:

Notification to the excavator is handled as followed:


1. If there is a properly formatted email address on the ticket then the system will attempt to deliver the status information via email.
2. If an email address is not in the correct format or blank but there is a fax number listed on the ticket, a fax will be sent. The system will attempt to transmit the automated fax. Should the attempt be unsuccessful, the system will attempt to deliver the fax as many as three times ten minutes apart.
3. If neither an email nor fax number is on the ticket, the status information will not be delivered. It will be available via the toll free telephone number (866.821.4226) or on Search & Status®.

Notification is send when one of the following occur:

• When the ticket goes ‘past due’ OR when all members provide a status to the ticket, whichever comes first.
• Subsequent email or fax will be transmitted if any of the members on the ticket change their status.

If the excavator does not receive an email or fax, they must call Ticket Check® at 1.866.821.4226 or visit www.missutlity.net to retrieve the status of the ticket prior to starting an excavation.

Search & Status:

Tickets and their Ticket Check® statuses are available on the web by going to www.missutility.net and accessing the Search & Status® tab. Remember, interacting with the system is very easy. The interactive voice will prompt you through each self-explanatory step.