(a) Each person engaged in excavation or having charge or control of any excavation, or who may be engaged in or may have charge or control of conveying material from excavations, shall exercise reasonable care to prevent the deposit, in any manner, upon the surface of a sidewalk or any paved street or other public place, by placing, spilling, dropping or tracking from wheels of vehicles or from the feet of animals any earth, clay, mud, sand, gravel or other excavated material; and all such excavated materials spilled or dropped upon any street, sidewalk or other such place from any such vehicle or tracked thereon from wheels of vehicles or the feet of animals shall be removed without delay by the driver of the vehicle or animal involved.
(b) The excavations referred to in this section include those made in private property as well as in public property.
(1978 Code Sec. 19-17)