A. 
The City of Margate City Board of Commissioners finds and declares that problems of traffic control occur when traffic must be moved through or around street construction, maintenance operations and utility work, above or below the ground which requires blocking the street and obstructing the normal flow of traffic; and that such obstructions are or can become dangerous when not properly controlled. In order to better promote the public health, safety, peace and welfare, it is necessary to establish controls and regulations directed to the safe and expeditious movement of traffic through and around construction and maintenance zones and to provide safety for the work forces performing these operations.
B. 
The City of Margate City in the County of Atlantic, State of New Jersey, does hereby adopt the current Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, herein known as the MUTCD, except as hereby supplemented and amended, as it controls and regulates whenever construction, maintenance operations or utility work obstructs the normal flow of traffic. Any person, contractor or utility who fails to comply with the provisions of the MUTCD while performing such work is in violation of this article.
It shall be the responsibility of the person, contractor, or in the case of a public utility as required under the public utility agreement, Section 16:25-9.2, wishing to conduct work on, under or above the street to contact the Police Department of the City of Margate City to arrange a pre-construction meeting in order to submit plans for the safe movement of traffic during such period of construction or work. Any person, contractor or utility who fails to comply with this section prior to the start of such work, or whose plans are not approved by the Police Department of the City of Margate City is in violation of this section.
The person, contractor or utility shall provide at least two emergency contact telephone numbers to be called in case of emergency problems at the construction or maintenance site prior to the start of any work. If, for any reason, emergency contact be made, or if the emergency contact person does not respond to a call from the Police Department to correct such hazardous condition(s), the City of Margate City may respond to correct the hazardous condition(s). The reasonable fees for such emergency services by the City of Margate City shall be charged to the person, contractor, or utility responsible for the condition.
There shall be no construction, maintenance operations or utility work on or under any street before 7:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m., Mondays through Fridays; before 8:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m. Saturdays; or at any time on Sundays. These time limits may be adjusted to permit work before or after the above-prescribed hours by the officer in charge of the Police Department if that officer determines that such earlier or later work would not substantially delay traffic or cause a safety or health hazard.
Traffic directors shall be posted at all construction or maintenance sites when determined by the Chief of Police that same is necessary to provide for the safe and expeditious movement of traffic around and through the construction or maintenance zone.
It is expressly understood that no materials or equipment are to be placed in any roadway or on any sidewalk until all construction warning signs, lights or pavement markings are installed.
The Chief of Police of the City of Margate City or the designee of the Chief of Police shall have the authority to stop work, including the removal of equipment and vehicles, stored materials within the streets right-of-way, backfilling of open excavations and/or other related work, in order to abate any nuisance and/or safety hazard or for any violation of this article.
A. 
Any person, contractor, or utility who commits a violation of this article shall upon conviction thereof for a first offense, pay a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500 and/or be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days; for a second offense, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than $500 and be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days; for a third and subsequent conviction, pay a fine of not less than $750 and/or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding 90 days.
B. 
A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day or part of day on which a violation occurs or continues.