(A) Unless specifically made applicable, the provisions of this traffic code, except those relating to reckless driving and driving while intoxicated, shall not apply to persons, teams, motor vehicles, and other equipment while actually engaged in work upon the surface of a street, or to persons, motor vehicles, and other equipment while actually engaged in construction, maintenance, or repair of public utilities; provided, that all highway and public utility operations shall be protected by adequate warning signs, signals, devices, or flaggers.
(B) The provisions of this traffic code shall apply to such persons and vehicles when traveling to or from such work.
(C) Whenever construction, repair, or maintenance of any street, utility line, or facility is being performed within the municipal limits of the town and the street is not closed to traffic in accord with this section and a maximum safe, careful, and prudent speed shall have been determined by the town on any streets or town detours during the period of the construction, maintenance, or repairs and shall have plainly posted at each terminus thereof and at not less than each half mile along the route thereof the determined maximum speed, no person shall drive any vehicle upon the portion of the road or the road detour or highway or the highway detour at a speed in excess of the speed so determined and posted. Violation of the posted speed limit in the repair, maintenance, or construction zone shall result in the doubling of the appropriate fine. For purposes of this section, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, OR CONSTRUCTION ZONE means any location where repair, maintenance, or construction work is actually in progress and workers present.
(Prior Code, Ch. 18, Art. 9, § 108) Penalty, see § 70.99