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.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Article 8 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 67-8-1 - [Danger signals or lights for roads or bridges under construction.]
Section 67-8-2 - [Failure to install warnings; penalty.]
Section 67-8-3 - [Fencing of roads on public lands; cost.]
Section 67-8-4 - [Direction signboards at road intersections; duty of county commissioners.]
Section 67-8-5 - [Replacement of direction signs.]
Section 67-8-6 - [Payment of direction sign expenses.]
Section 67-8-7 - [Defacing, disfiguring or destroying direction signs; penalty.]
Section 67-8-8 - [Advertising signs adjoining public highways; definitions.]
Section 67-8-10 - [Restrictions on placing signs upon or over highway rights-of-way.]
Section 67-8-11 - Signs placed in violation of act declared public nuisances.
Section 67-8-12 - [Officers charged with enforcement of act.]
Section 67-8-13 - Wiring adjoining highway structures; permit required; application.
Section 67-8-14 - [Violation of wiring requirements; penalty.]
Section 67-8-15 - Declaration of policy.
Section 67-8-16 - Definitions.
Section 67-8-17 - Relocation of utility facilities authorized.
Section 67-8-18 - State pays certain relocation costs.
Section 67-8-19 - Procedure; appeal.
Section 67-8-20 - Nonapplicability of act.
Section 67-8-22 - Remaining in rest areas and similar facilities; penalty.
Section 67-8-23 - Additional cooperative agreements funding.