(A) (1) It shall be the duty of any person doing any type of construction or excavating work upon or adjacent to any street, alley, sidewalk, or public ground in the town, to maintain substantial guardrails and barriers around such work or excavation in such manner as to protect pedestrians, animals, and vehicles using such street, alley, or walk. Similar barriers shall be placed around any materials or equipment, contact with which would be dangerous to pedestrians, animals, or vehicles.
(2) If such obstruction is more than ten feet long, one danger sign shall be placed at each end and additional ones placed along such obstruction not more than 20 feet apart. It is an offense for any person to fail to provide such safeguards, and each day of such omission shall constitute a separate offense.
(B) For the protection of any pavement or sidewalk while they are in the course of construction and before they are opened for traffic; and it shall be unlawful for any person to enter into or upon such street, pavement, or sidewalk, or to permit any person or thing under his or her control to do so, before such pavement, street, or sidewalk is opened for general traffic.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or destroy any barrier or danger signal placed or erected under the provisions of this section, unless such act is done at the direction of the person in charge of such work or the Town Board of Trustees.
(Prior Code, § 14-106) Penalty, see § 151.99