(a)  At any and all times during which construction and/or maintenance work is being undertaken on any state highway and/or interstate connector, under the terms of either the highway or bridge contract in which an attenuator truck is required under federal and/or Rhode Island department of transportation guidelines, no attenuator truck shall be left unattended while work is actively being performed. Further, at all times while that work is actively being performed, an attenuator truck shall be deployed on the worksite. A minimum of one attenuator truck shall be equipped with a first-aid kit and two (2) fire extinguishers. The operator of the attenuator truck shall have completed appropriate training and be certified in both first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). A copy of both first aid and CPR certifications shall be kept with the truck driver.

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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 24-8-4.2

  • bridge: as used in this chapter shall be a structure including supports erected over a depression or an obstruction, such as water, highway, or railway, and having a track or passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads, and having an opening measured along the center of the roadway of eight feet (8?) or more between under copings of abutments, spring lines of arches, or the extreme ends of openings for multiple boxes; it also includes single or multiple pipes where the clear distance between openings of multiple pipes is less than half of the smaller contiguous opening. See Rhode Island General Laws 24-8-27
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

(b)  The penalty for failure to comply with this section shall be as set forth in § 31-27-22.

History of Section.
P.L. 2000, ch. 355, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 457, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 343, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 472, § 1.