§ 78-243. General standards; duties of permittee.

(a)

Any person who undertakes to perform any work upon, in, under, above or about any public street, highway, roadway, alley or sidewalk, collectively referred to in this article as "public right-of-way," which requires that the street be partially or completely closed for construction and/or maintenance operations, which work shall require excavation within or occupancy of the whole or a portion of the width of any such public right-of-way by equipment, materials, debris or workmen, shall use barricades, signals, flags, flares and all other traffic control and warning devices and procedures about the work area during the duration of the work within the public right-of-way of the type and in the manner required by the handbook.

(b)

It shall be the responsibility of the permit holder to provide, erect, place and maintain all warning signs, traffic control devices and barricades required by the handbook or the director. All such signs, devices and barricades shall be in good condition, shall be clean and legible and shall be of the type required by the handbook; provided that the director may authorize the use of different or special devices and equipment if, in his opinion, such equipment will be at least as effective for its intended purpose as that set forth for such purpose in the handbook. When additional regulatory signs are deemed necessary by the director, such signing shall be installed as directed by the director, along with such regulatory signs as are required to be provided by the city-parish consolidated government as required by the handbook.

(City Code 1965, § 19-60)