A.
The Mayor and Council hereby finds and declares that problems of
traffic control occur when traffic must be moved through or around
street construction, maintenance operations and utility work, above
and below ground, which requires blocking the roadway and obstructing
the normal flow of traffic; and that such obstructions are or can
become dangerous when not properly controlled. In order to better
promote the public health, safety, peace and welfare, it is necessary
to establish controls and regulations directed to the safe and expeditious
movement of traffic through construction and maintenance zones and
to provide safety for the work force performing these operations.
B.
The Borough of Somerdale, in the County of Camden, State of New Jersey,
does hereby adopt the current Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices,
hereafter known as "MUTCD," except as hereby supplemented and amended,
as it controls and regulates whenever construction, maintenance operations
or utility work obstructs the normal flow of traffic. Any person,
contractor or utility who fails to comply with the provisions of MUTCD
while performing such work is in violation of this section.
It shall be the responsibility of the person or contractor or,
in the case of a public utility, as required under the public utility
agreement, wishing to conduct work on, under or above the roadway,
to contact the Somerdale Police Department in order to arrange a preconstruction
meeting to submit plans for the safe movement of traffic during such
period of construction of work. Any person, contractor or utility
who fails to comply with this section prior to the start of such work
or whose plans are not approved by the Somerdale Police Department
is in violation of this section.
The person, contractor or utility shall provide the Somerdale
Police Department with at least two emergency contact phone numbers
to be called in case of emergency problems at the construction or
maintenance site prior to the start of any work. If for any reason
emergency contact cannot be reached or if the emergency contact person
does not respond to the call from the Police Department to correct
a hazardous condition, the Borough may respond to correct such hazardous
conditions. The reasonable fees for such emergency service by the
Borough shall be charged to the person, contractor or utility responsible
for such conditions.
There shall be no construction, maintenance operations or utility
work on any roadway in the Borough before the hour of 9:00 a.m. or
after 4:00 p.m. This time limit may be adjusted to permit work prior
to 9:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m. by the officer in charge of the Somerdale
Police Department. If it is determined by the officer in charge that
the construction or maintenance operations prior to 9:00 a.m. or after
4:00 p.m. would substantially delay traffic or cause a safety or health
hazard, the work shall then be permitted only between 9:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.
Road closing and/or traffic detours shall not be permitted unless
approved by the Somerdale Police Department.
Traffic directors shall be posted at all construction or maintenance
sites when determined by the Somerdale Police Department that the
same is necessary to provide for the safe and expeditious movement
of traffic.
The Somerdale Police Department shall have the authority to
stop work, including the removal of equipment and vehicles, stored
material within the street right-of-way, back filling of open excavations
and/or other related work, in order to abate any nuisance and/or safety
hazard or for any violation of this section.
