(A) Municipal personnel, contractors or utility companies, while repairing or improving the streets of the town, or when installing, improving or repairing lines or other utility facilities in the streets, are authorized, subject to control by the Town Board of Trustees, to close any street, or section thereof, to traffic during such activity and shall erect, or cause to be erected, proper control devices and barricades to warn the public that such street has been closed to traffic.
(B) When any street has been closed to traffic under the provisions of division (A) of this section and traffic-control devices or barricades have been erected, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle under, over, around or through such traffic-control devices or barricades or otherwise to enter the closed area (except that the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons while engaged in such construction, maintenance and repair to persons entering therein for the protection of lives or property or to persons having their places of residence or business within such closed area, who may travel through such area at their own risk).
(C) Whenever construction, repair or maintenance of any street, utility line or facility is being performed, and the street is not closed to traffic in accord with this section, the municipal personnel, contractor or utility company concerned shall erect warning devices for the public. Every person using such street shall obey such warning devices.
(`85 Code, § 22-116) Penalty, see § 70.999