(A) Authority to close streets.
(1) Town employees or contractors, while repairing or improving the streets of the town, and utility company personnel, when installing, improving or repairing lines or other utility facilities in the streets, are hereby authorized as necessary, subject to control by the Board of Trustees, to close any street or section thereof to traffic during such repair, maintenance or construction.
(2) In exercising such authority, the employees, personnel or contractors shall erect or cause to be erected proper control devices and barricades to warn and notify the public that the street has been closed to traffic.
(B) Obedience to barricades and traffic-control devices.
(1) 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 is unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle through, under, over or around the traffic-control devices or barricades, or otherwise to enter the closed area.
(2) The provisions of this division (B) above shall not apply to persons while engaged in the construction, maintenance and repair, or to persons entering therein for the protection of lives or property.
(3) Persons having their places of residence or places of business within the closed area may travel, when possible to do so, through the area at their own risk.
(C) Traffic-control devices required during construction. Whenever construction, repair or maintenance of any street or utility line or facility is being performed under traffic, the employees, personnel or contractor concerned shall erect, or cause to be erected, traffic-control devices to warn and guide the public; and every person using the street shall obey all signs, signals, markings, flaggers or other traffic-control devices which are placed to regulate, control and guide traffic through the construction or maintenance area.
(Prior Code, § 6-1-7)