521.08 BARRICADES AND WARNING LIGHTS; ABANDONED EXCAVATIONS.

   (a)    This section shall be administered and enforced by the Fire Department and the Health Commissioner and/or their designated staff. They shall investigate all requests under this section and shall have the power to order the nuisance abated.

(1)    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.

(2)    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.

(3)    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.

         (Ord. 2000-45. Passed 6-20-00.)