No person shall leave in or on any street, alley, sidewalk or public place in the City, from dark to daylight of any night, any excavation, or any fuel, earth, sand, lumber, building material or other substance, which may belong to him or be in his care or custody or be intended for his use, and which may cause an obstruction, without placing and maintaining thereon during such time a lighted lantern or lanterns as may be sufficient to cast light on the whole obstruction or excavation.
The owner or occupant of any premises before which such obstruction or excavation exists, as well as the contractor or the person in charge of the work, shall see that such lighted lantern or lanterns are so placed and maintained.
No person shall cover or extinguish, deface, injure, overturn, take, steal or carry away any such lantern mentioned in the preceding paragraph. (1947 Code §25.24)