5591.36 Guardrails for bridge or steep embankment.

5591.36 Guardrails for bridge or steep embankment.

The board of county commissioners shall erect and maintain on county roads, where not already done, one or more guardrails on each end of a county bridge, viaduct, or culvert more than five feet high. The board also shall protect, by guardrails, all embankments with a rise of more than eight feet in height and with a downward slope of greater than seventy degrees, where the embankments have an immediate connection with a county road.

The expense for a guardrail required under this section shall be paid out of the county bridge fund.

Effective Date: 04-09-2003