(A) Municipal personnel, contractors, or utility companies (while repairing or improving the streets of the town or when installing, improving, or repairing lines or other utility facilities in the streets) are hereby authorized, subject to control by the Town Board, to close any street or section thereof to traffic.
(B) When any street has been closed to traffic under the provisions of division (A) above and traffic control devices or barricades have been erected, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle under, over, around, or through such traffic control devices or barricades or otherwise to enter the closed area; except, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to persons while engaged in such construction, maintenance, and repair to persons entering therein for the protection of lives or property or to persons having their places of residence or business within such closed area who may travel through such area at their own risk.
(C) Whenever construction, repair, or maintenance of any street, utility line, or facility is being performed and the street is not closed to traffic in accordance with this section, the municipal personnel, contractor, or utility company concerned shall erect warning devices for the public. Every person using such street shall obey such warning devices.
(Prior Code, § 22-116)