(a) The traffic engineer is authorized to prescribe a traffic barricade manual, conforming to the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, for providing barricades, warning signs, and other traffic control devices that alert the public to hazards caused by construction, repair, pavement excavation or cuts, or other uses requiring closure of any portion of a public street or public right-of-way.
(b) A person commits an offense if he fails to comply with any provision of the city’s traffic barricade manual while occupying a public street or public right- of-way for the purpose of construction, repair, pavement excavation or cuts, or other uses requiring closure of any portion of the public street or public right-of-way.
(c) It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (b) that the provision of the city’s traffic barricade manual was superseded by a provision of the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and the person was complying with the state provision.
(d) A person convicted of an offense under Subsection (b) of this section is punishable by a fine of $500. (Ord. Nos. 15124; 19749; 27294)