660.16 BARRICADES AND WARNING LIGHTS; ABANDONED EXCAVATIONS.

   (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)    No person who is aware that he has removed or damaged any barrier, light or other warning device, or who has extinguished any light, shall fail to stop and immediately replace such barrier or other warning device, or relight such light, if extinguished, or in lieu thereof to immediately notify the Police Department that such barrier, light or other warning device has been damaged, removed or extinguished.

(Ord. 1958-25. Passed 5-27-58.)

   (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. (Ord. 1970-70. Passed 12-8-70.)

   (e)    Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.