The Maintenance Department of the city, and the State Highway Department and/or the contractors of the city or Highway Department, when performing surveys, maintenance, repairs, construction and/or reconstruction in, under, over, across or upon the highways and streets or adjacent thereto, situated with the city are hereby authorized and empowered as follows:
(A) To place, to erect or cause to be placed or erected, barricades and/or warning signs on all approaches, on the streets or highways, including side streets, to areas or sections where maintenance repair, construction and/or reconstruction is being carried on, at a distance from those areas sufficient to warn the operators of motor vehicles of the areas and danger;
(B) To place or erect, or cause to be placed or erected, other warning signs, devices, as well as signs or instructions in and along the construction route and area calculated to warn traveling motorists and operators of motor vehicles of any danger;
(C) To place or erect or cause to be placed or erected, signs designating speed zones to the approach and through the area where the construction or work is being carried on. These speed zones to be determined under engineering studies calculated to expedite traffic at a safe speed. In no case shall the speed zones exceed the prima facie maximum speed limit normally in effect;
(D) To place or erect or cause to be erected “no parking signs” in and along the route where maintenance repairs, construction and/or reconstruction is being conducted on and/or detour routes when it is determined by the city or the State Highway Department, whichever the work is being conducted under and that parking will interfere with the work and/or the safety flow of the traffic the “no parking signs” may contain a specified time period during which the restrictions are in effect;
(E) To use flaggers on the approaches and in and about the construction area for the purpose of controlling traffic. When flaggers are utilized they are hereby authorized to direct, control, to stop and instruct operators of motor vehicles to proceed, with full authority as though the flagger was a law enforcement officer of the city;
(F) To take any and all steps deemed necessary to protect the lives, health and property of both the workers, the operators of motor vehicles utilizing the street or highways, including re-routing the traffic across and upon other adjacent streets within the city limits;
(G) Where the work is being carried on by a contractor or subcontractor of either the city or the State Highway Department, the contractor and/or sub-contractor shall exercise the authorization herein granted subject to the approval and regulation of the city or the State Highway Department, whichever one the work is being conducted under; and
(H) The determination by the city or the State Highway Department, whichever the work is being conducted by or under their supervision, as to the size, location and/or arrangement of the signs, barricades and/or the flaggers, authorized herein shall be discretionary.
(1981 Code, § 14.51) (Ord. passed 9-1-1971)