No person making any excavation in any street, public alley or sidewalk shall fail to securely cover such excavation with planks or place ropes around the same three feet from the ground or fail to place an adequate number of red lights or flares around such excavation before dark and keep such lights or flares burning all night when such excavation shall be open.
(Code 1976, § 14-15; Code 1982, § 17-93)