It shall be the responsibility of the person, contractor, or public utility wishing to conduct work on, under or above the roadway to contact the Evesham Police Department in order to arrange a preconstruction meeting to submit plans for the safe movement of traffic during such period of construction or work. Upon approval of a traffic control plan, the contractor shall be issued a traffic control permit for the applicable work site. The contractor shall pay the applicable fee for this permit as set forth in §
72-1. 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 Evesham Police Department is in violation of this section.
The person, contractor or utility shall provide
the Evesham Township Police Department with 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 contacts cannot be reached, or
if the emergency contact person does not respond to a call from the
Police Department to correct a hazardous condition, the Township may
respond to correct such hazardous condition. The reasonable fees for
emergency services by the Township shall be charged to the person,
contractor or utility responsible for such condition.
Road closings and/or traffic detours shall not
be permitted unless approved by the Evesham Police Traffic Unit or
the on-duty watch commander.
Traffic directors shall be posted at all construction or maintenance sites when determined by the Evesham Police Department that such traffic directors are necessary to provide for safety and the expeditious movement of traffic. Generally this determination shall be made at the preconstruction meeting. The cost of employing, hiring and maintaining such traffic directors shall be exclusively upon the contractor, person or utility whose work makes the presence of the traffic directors necessary. In the event that a person, contractor or utility wishes to employ off duty Evesham police officers as traffic directors, the person, contractor or utility shall be guided by the procedure outlined in Chapter
26, Police Department, of this Code.
The Chief of Police of the Evesham Police Department
or his designee shall have the authority to stop work, order the removal
of equipment, vehicles and stored material within the street 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 section.
It is expressly understood that no materials,
vehicles or equipment are to be placed in the roadway or sidewalk
area until all construction signs, lights, devices and pavement markings
are installed.