(A) Any person, firm, or corporation laying or repairing any pavement on a street, sidewalk, or other public place, or making an excavation in the same, shall maintain suitable barricades to prevent injury of any person or vehicle by reason of the work, such barricades shall be protected by suitable lights at night time.
(B) Any defect in any such pavement shall be barricaded to prevent injury, and any person, firm, or corporation properly maintaining any opening or excavation in any such place shall guard such opening or excavation while the same remains open, by proper barricades and lights.
(2016 Code, § 10.109 Penalty, see § 151.999