(A) When an applicant has been granted permission to make an excavation in any public street or alley, he or she shall keep the excavation properly barricaded and protected until it has been filled by him or her as herein provided and approved by the Village Administrator or other officer designated by Council. During the night, appropriate lights shall be placed by the applicant near the excavation to ensure proper protection to the public.
(`94 Code, § 925.08)
(B) (1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(`94 Code, § 521.03) Penalty, see § 10.99