Adoption of the manual on uniform traffic control devices for streets
and highways. The Governing Body 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.
The City of Absecon; in the County of Atlantic, State of New
Jersey does hereby adopt the current Manual on Uniform Control Devices
for Streets and Highways hereafter known as the M.U.T.C.D., 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 that fails
to comply with the provisions of the M.U.T.C.D. while performing such
work is in violation of this section.