§ 29-14. Maintenance and construction zones.

(a)

The city is hereby authorized to close any highway, street, avenue, public thoroughfare, or section thereof within its respective jurisdiction, to traffic while such highway, street, avenue, or public thoroughfare is under repair, maintenance or construction and, in exercising such authority, shall erect, or cause to be erected, control devices and barricades to warn and notify the public that said highway, street, avenue or public thoroughfare has been closed to traffic. It shall hereby be the duty of the traffic-control supervisor, or his designee, to determine when such construction, maintenance or repair shall necessitate the closing of any highway, street, avenue, or public thoroughfare within the jurisdiction of the city.

(b)

When any highway, street, avenue or other public thoroughfare has been closed to traffic under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section and traffic control devices or barricades have been erected, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle through, under, over or around such traffic control devices or barricades, or otherwise to enter any closed area.

(c)

The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to persons while engaged in the construction, maintenance and repair of said highway, street, avenue or public thoroughfare or to persons entering therein for the protection of lives or property; and provided further, that persons having their places of residence or places of business, or who must travel said highways, streets, avenues, and public thoroughfares to reach their places of residence or places of business, may then travel, when possible to do so, through such area at their own risk.

(d)

Whenever construction, repair and maintenance of any highway, street, avenue, or public thoroughfare is being performed under traffic, the city council shall erect, or cause to be erected, traffic control devices to warn and guide the public. Every person using such highway, street, avenue or public thoroughfare shall obey all signs, signals, markings, flagmen or other traffic control devices which are placed to regulate, control and guide traffic through the construction or maintenance area.

(e)

No person shall remove, change, modify, deface or alter any traffic control device or barricade which has been erected on any highway, street, avenue, or public thoroughfare under the provisions of this section.

(f)

City personnel or contractors, whichever is engaged in repair or improvement of any highway, street, avenue or public thoroughfare within the city, shall establish, provide for, and adequately design a detour route for traffic; provided, however, that this subsection shall only apply when said highway, street, avenue or public thoroughfare shall be closed for a period in excess of 72 hours.

(Code 1966, § 20-21; Code 1982, § 29-14; Ord. No. 1524, § 1, 7-29-1974)

State law reference

Maintenance and construction zones, 47 O.S. § 11-1302.