A. Permit Required: It shall be unlawful for any person to make or cause to be made any excavation in any public street or sidewalk in the town, or to remove any gravel or other similar thing from any street or sidewalk, or to lay any water pipe or conduit of any kind under any street or sidewalk within town, until he has obtained a permit from the supervisor of streets. (1976 Code § 16-5-1)
B. Excavations To Be Guarded:
1. It shall be unlawful for any person, by or for whom any excavation is made in a public street for any purpose, to fail to cause a barricade, rail or other sufficient fence to be placed so as to enclose such excavation, together with the dirt, gravel or other material thrown therefrom, and to maintain such barricade during the whole time for which such excavation continues; and it shall be unlawful for any person to fail to have lighted lanterns or some other proper lights fixed to parts of such barricade, or in some other proper manner over or near the excavation and over and near the dirt, gravel or other material taken therefrom, and so kept beginning of twilight through the whole of every night during all the time such excavation exists.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person maliciously or wantonly and without legal cause to extinguish, remove or diminish said lights or to tear down or remove any rail, fence or barricade fixed in accordance with the provisions of this section. (1976 Code § 16-5-2)