[Code 1974 § 20-108; Code 1985 § 24-306;
Code 2005 § 106-581]
No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a safety
zone or island.
[Code 1974 § 20-10; Code 1985 § 24-307;
Code 2005 § 106-582]
A. City personnel or contractors, while repairing or improving the streets
of the City, and City personnel and utility companies, when installing,
improving, or repairing lines or other utility facilities in the streets,
are hereby authorized as necessary, subject to control by the Board
of Commissioners, to close any street or section thereof to traffic
during such repair, maintenance, or construction; and, in exercising
such authority, shall erect or cause to be erected proper control
devices and barricades to warn and notify the public that the street
has been closed to traffic.
B. When any street has been closed to traffic under the provisions of Subsection
A of this section or pursuant to state law and traffic control devices or barricades have been erected, it is unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle through, under, over, or around such traffic control devices or barricades, or otherwise to enter the closed area; except that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to persons while engaged in such construction, maintenance, and repair, or to persons entering therein for the protection of lives or property; provided that persons having their places of residence or places of business within the closed area may travel, when possible to do so, through the area at their own risk.
C. Whenever construction, repair or maintenance of any street or utility
line or facility is being performed under traffic, the City personnel,
contractor or utility company concerned shall erect, or cause to be
erected, traffic control devices to warn and guide the public; and
every person using such street shall obey all signs, signals, markings,
flaggers, or other traffic control devices which are placed to regulate,
control, and guide traffic through the construction or maintenance
area.
D. No person shall remove, change, modify, deface or alter any traffic
control device or barricade which has been erected on any highway
under the provisions of this section.
E. Nothing in this section shall relieve the City or its contractors,
agents, servants or employees from liability for failure to perform
any of the duties imposed in this section.