(A) Permits for Roadwork Sites Required.
(1) No person, firm, association, corporation or governmental agency shall engage in construction, maintenance or repair work on any roadway without securing written permission of the Construction Services Division except in an emergency of such nature that securing a permit is not consistent with preservation of life or property.
(2) The contractor agency responsible for the work that necessitates the closure of the street shall contact the Construction Services Division of the Municipal Development Department of the city 48 hours prior to the closure of the street. The Construction Services Division shall be notified of the reopening of the street prior to removing the barricades. No work may be started in the public right-of-way until approval has been given and all signs and barricades are in place. The responsibility for all barricading, detouring and signing is that of the contractor, with the exception of the regulatory signs such as “Stop,” “No Parking,” “Speed Limit,” which shall be installed by the city. It shall be the duty of the contractor to notify the city when any such regulatory signs are not in place or must be removed due to construction. In the event of any emergency closing of a street, the city shall be given as much notice as possible.
(B) Driver Must Yield to Road Workers. The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to any worker on a road site indicated by official traffic control devices.
(C) Workers to Wear Conspicuous Materials.
(1) Every worker shall wear retroreflective and fluorescent materials complying with standards approved by the City Safety Division.
(2) The City Risk Management Division shall adopt standards for materials to be worn by workers (and shall approve items for their use). These standards shall, as a minimum, specify the following properties for materials, whether wet or dry.
(3) Fluorescent material shall meet the color and luminance requirements stated in “Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 125” for warning devices when the equipped worker is viewed at an entrance angle, as defined by Standard 125, or zero degrees from his front or rear, that is, full view forward or backward.
(4) Retroreflective material shall meet the color specification contained in Standard 125 for warning devices.
(5) The retroreflective material shall meet the reflectivity specification in total candlepower per incident foot candle as a function of observation angle and entrance angle contained in Table 1 of Standard 125 for entrance angles of 0, 10 up, 10 down, 20 left, 20 right, 30 left, and 30 right as viewed from both the front and rear of the worker.
(6) The retroreflective material shall meet five percent of the reflectivity specification of Standard 125 for all entrance angles greater than 30 degrees left or right as measured front or rear.
('74 Code, § 9-5-4.69) (Ord. 65-1974; Am. Ord. 2016-011)