Hereafter any person, firm, association, copartnership, contractor or corporation engaged in the alteration, repair or construction of any bridge, road or public highway in this state shall maintain at all times proper danger signals, or lights, posted conspicuously at or near the place where such work, alteration, repair or construction is being done.
History: Laws 1923, ch. 34, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 64-1401; 1941 Comp., § 58-701; 1953 Comp., § 55-7-1.
Commission not within scope of section. — State highway commission (now state transportation commission) is not a "firm, association, copartnership, contractor or corporation," within the meaning of this section. Rapp v. N.M. State Highway Dep't, 1975-NMCA-004, 87 N.M. 177, 531 P.2d 225.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 40 Am. Jur. 2d Highways, Streets and Bridges §§ 556, 557, 568.
Contractor's duty to maintain barriers, 7 A.L.R. 1203, 104 A.L.R. 955.
Duty to make highway safe for children by providing proper barriers, 36 A.L.R. 309.
Duty as regards barriers for protection of automobile travel, 86 A.L.R. 1389, 173 A.L.R. 626.
Liability for automobile colliding with temporary obstruction in connection with alteration or repair of street as affected by insufficiency of warning of danger, 100 A.L.R. 1389.
Duty of highway construction contractor to provide temporary way or detour around obstruction, 29 A.L.R.2d 876.
40 C.J.S. Highways §§ 263, 264.
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