(A) Municipal personnel, contractors, or utility companies, while repairing or improving the streets of the town, or when installing, improving, or repairing lines or other utility facilities in the streets, are hereby authorized, subject to control by the Town Board of Trustees, to close any street, or section thereof, to traffic during such activity and shall erect, or cause to be erected, proper control devices and barricades to warn the public that such street has been closed to traffic.
(B) When any street has been closed to traffic under the provisions of division (A) above and traffic control devices or barricades have been erected, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle under, over, around, or through such traffic control devices or barricades, or otherwise to enter the closed area (except that the provisions of this division (B) shall not apply to persons while engaged in such construction, maintenance, and repair, to persons having their places of residence or business within such closed area, who may travel through such area at their own risk).
(C) Whenever construction, repair, or maintenance of any street, utility line, or facility is being performed, and the street is not closed to traffic in accord with this section, the municipal personnel, contractor, or utility company concerned shall erect warning devices for the public. Every person using such street shall obey such warning devices.
(Prior Code, Ch. 18, Art. 9, § 107) Penalty, see § 70.99