Ticket Size policy

Effective July 1st, 2021, the Ticket Continuity Committee enacted the following Ticket Size Policy:
  • Locations described on tickets should be no longer than a half mile.
  • Half mile segments should start and/or end at intersections whenever possible.
    • If using an intersection isn’t practical, footage between locations pre-marked in white can be used instead.
  • Extending from the road into property cannot go so far as to extend into other properties that face other roads, or so far as to enter another road altogether.
  • If a single parcel or address location is larger than half a mile, it is exempt from the half mile rule.
  • If work is on or alongside a freeway, railroad tracks, or water-ways, the maximum distance is two miles. This also applies to following a power pole corridor or pipeline right of way in a rural area.
    • A freeway is defined as a highway that has on-ramps and off-ramps.
  • Two mile segments should start and/or end at on-ramps and off-ramps, mile markers, or cross streets.
    • If none of the above is practical, footage between locations pre-marked in white can be used.
  • You can submit ‘intermittent’ locations along a road for street signs, power poles, trees, etc., if the distance between each location is specified.
    • The number of locations should be specified on the ticket and marked appropriately in the field.
  • Intermittent locations that are very close together, such as fence posts, can be considered a ‘continuous’ location, marked with a starting and end point.
  • ‘Bounded area’ locations cannot contain any named public streets.
    • Internal roads, private roadways, private driveways, trails, or other unnamed roads are exempt from this rule.
  • There are some exceptions to the above:
    • Center Operations Supervisors may allow exemptions to any rule when warranted.
    • All tickets that fall outside of these rules have been pre-approved.
    • Existing tickets issued prior to the effective date are grandfathered in and will not need to be re-submitted.
    • Existing tickets where street names were not present when issued, but appear after a map update, will be considered grandfathered if those roads do not yet physically exist in the field.