Sec. 1.
The officials in charge of constructing, improving or repairing highways may close any highway or portion thereof, which is under process of construction, improvement or repair or upon which is located any bridge which is being constructed or repaired. No highway shall be closed under the provisions of this act until suitable barriers have been erected at the ends of the highway or of the closed portion thereof, and also at the point of intersection of such highway or portion thereof with other highways. Suitable barriers are those which conform to the manual of uniform traffic control devices adopted pursuant to section 608 of Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, being section 257.608 of the Compiled Laws of 1948. For the purposes of this act "highway" includes roads and streets.
History: 1917, Act 165, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917 ;-- CL 1929, 4626 ;-- CL 1948, 247.291 ;-- Am. 1966, Act 176, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1966