Page 21 - Mississippi 811 Magazine 2020 Issue 2

STATE or MISSISSIPPI
Office of the Governor
I 3% I
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS. each year, Mississippi’s underground utility infrastructure is jeopardized by
unintentional damage by those who fail to call to have undergound lines located prior to
digging. Undesired consequences such as service intemlption, damage to the
environment, personal injury and even death are the potential results; and
WHEREAS. Mississippi 811, Inc., promotes the national Call—Before-You-Dig number,
811, in an effort to reduce these damages. Designated by the FCC in 2005, 811 provides
potential excavators and homeowners a simple number to reach their local one—call center
to request utility line locations at the intended dig site; and
WHEREAS, through education of safe digging practices, excavators and homeowners
can save time and money keeping our nation safe and connected by making a simple call
to 811 in advance or any digging project, waiting the required amount or time, respecting
the marked lines by maintaining visual definition throughout the course of the
excavation, and iinally, digging with care around the marks; and
WHEREAS. all pa.ru'es agee that safe digging is a shared responsibility. To know
what’s below, call 811 before you dig:
Now, THEREFORE, I, Tate Reeves, Governor of the state of Mississippi, do hereby
proclaim April 2020 as
SAFE DIGGIN G MONTH
in the State of Mississippi and encourage excavators and homeowners throughout the
state to always call 811 before digging. Safe digging is no accident.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused the
Great seal of the state of Mississippi to
be affixed.
DONE in the City of Jackson. on the
27'“ day of March in the year of our
Lord, two thousand and twenty. and of
the Independence of the United States of
America. the two hundred and forty-
fourth.
TATE REEVES
GOVERNOR