353General safety provisions as to roads

1. The council shall take all sufficient precautions for the general safety of the public and traffic and workmen employed on or near any road, and in particular shall—

2. take all reasonable precautions to prevent accidents during the construction or repair by the council of any road, or when any opening is made therein by the council for the repair of drains or gas pipes or for any other purpose, and require other persons doing such work to take such precautions, by erecting barriers, devices to cause traffic to slow down, or fences across any such road or around any dangerous place therein, or otherwise, and shall cause, and require other persons doing such work to cause, any such dangerous place to be sufficiently lighted by night; and any person removing any such protective work, or removing or extinguishing any such light, without the authority of the council, commits an offence:
3. require the owner or occupier of any land upon which there is any hole, well, excavation, or other place dangerous to persons passing along any road forthwith to fill in, cover, or enclose the same:
4. whenever the public safety or convenience renders it expedient, require the owner or occupier of any land not separated from a road by a sufficient fence to enclose the same by a fence to the satisfaction of the council.