Any person laying or repairing any pavement on a street, sidewalk or other public place, or making an excavation in any such place, shall maintain suitable barricades to prevent injury to any person or vehicle by reason of the work. Such barricade shall be protected by lights at nighttime. Any defects in any such pavement shall be barricaded to prevent any such injury, and any person properly maintaining any opening or excavation in any such place shall guard such opening or excavation while the same remains open by proper barricades and lights.
(Code 1972, § 8-1-16)