(a) No person shall abandon or knowingly permit to remain on public or private property, any excavation, well, cesspool or structure which is in the process of construction, reconstruction, repair or alteration unless the same is adequately protected by suitable barricades and guarded by warning devices or lights at night so that the condition will not reasonably prove dangerous to life or limb.
(b) No person shall destroy, remove, damage or extinguish any barricade or warning light that is placed for the protection of the public so as to prevent injury to life or limb.
(c) All barricades and warning lights that are placed for the protection of the public so as to prevent injury to life or limb, shall be marked as follows:
WARNING 521.03(b), Codified Ordinances of the City of Canton, prohibits the destruction, removal, damage or extinguishment of this device. The penalty for a violation of this section is thirty (30) days imprisonment and two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) fine. |
(d) Any owner or agent in control of a premises upon which a basement, cellar, well or cistern has been abandoned due to demolition, failure to build or any other reason shall cause the same to be filled to the ground surface with rock, gravel, earth or other suitable material.
(e) Whoever violates subsections (a) or (d) hereof is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(f) Whoever violates subsection (b) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 50-90. Passed 3-5-90.)
(Ord. 50-90. Passed 3-5-90.)