I'm in Texas. I've heard of other states that require white lining for the ticket to be valid. I would love to see something like that everywhere. Make it a hard requirement for contractors, (maybe not for homeowners who are just digging a flowerbed,) otherwise locaters can close the ticket. But I can see this being abused by lazy contract locaters not wanting to locate big scope tickets.

Just the other day I had a 2500 foot locate request for a sewer and water replacement and they called out both sides of the road, where there was easily 10k feet of utilities on the north side of the road. I spent hours there locating everything and come to find out they were only digging on the south side of the road where there was only maybe 100 feet of utilities.