Printable Format68-2102. Contractor or municipality making improvement to place barricades and warning signs, when. Every person who shall have entered into a contract to make any improvement, or any municipality which has undertaken for itself the making of any improvement, shall, where the work so undertaken requires the closing of any highway or the rendering of the same impassable or dangerous to travel while such improvement is being made, place at the intersection of all highways leading thereto, barricades and warning signs, advising the public that the highway is closed or is impassable or dangerous to travel.
History: L. 1957, ch. 354, § 2; L. 1995, ch. 188, § 8; L. 2004, ch. 34, § 2; July 1.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. No duty to place signs or barricades where culvert being removed from abandoned highway. Schroeder v. Braden, 193 K. 85, 88, 89, 391 P.2d 1005.
2. In action against a highway construction contractor the record is examined and violation hereof was found. Kelley v. Broce Construction Co., Inc., 205 K. 133, 140, 141, 468 P.2d 160.
3. No duties imposed on road contractor regarding road used to travel to and from construction site. Fountain v. Se-Kan Asphalt Services, Inc., 17 K.A.2d 323, 331, 837 P.2d 835 (1992).