§ 13-214. SAFETY.

(a)

All work described in this article shall be done in accordance with the regulations provided in the City and County of Fresno Traffic Control Manual dated 1963 as the same may be amended or revised.

(b)

It shall be the duty of any person making any excavation or doing any work in any public street, alley, easement or other public place to provide and maintain such fences, barriers, signs, lights and watchmen as may be necessary to prevent avoidable accidents to the public. Such person shall also provide for the elimination of dust during the period of construction. The City reserves the right at all times to determine the adequacy and sufficiency of all safety measures, barriers and dust prevention measures, but does not hereby assume responsibility or liability therefor.

(c)

The Director and any contractor or other person lawfully excavating, repairing or otherwise improving the whole or any portion of any street, alley, easement or other public place in the city may place barriers around or about the whole or any part of such street, alley, easement or other public place being so repaired, replaced or improved, in order to keep travel and traffic off the area under work. No person, except an employee of the city, emergency vehicle driver or employee of the street work permittee, shall remove any such barrier or barriers so placed or maintained, nor drive over or upon any portion of such street, alley, easement or other public place so enclosed or protected by such barrier or barriers, nor walk upon any portion thereof in such manner as to injure or damage the improvement or repair being made thereto. Notices of intention to place such barriers shall be given by the agency or contractor engaged in excavation or other work to the Chief of the Fresno Fire Department and the Chief of Police of the Fresno Police Department not later than twenty-four hours before such barriers are placed if such barriers shall block off more than eight feet of the width of any street between curb lines.

(Added Ord. 6667, 1965).