It shall be unlawful for any person to use, travel or drive upon, with vehicles or horse, any street within the city in the course of construction or improvement, while the same is closed to public travel. It shall be notice to all that a street is closed to public travel when the same has rope barriers or railings constructed, erected or placed at the end of such street, and it shall be unlawful for any person to cut any rope or to remove any railing, barrier or construction of any kind when placed across any street, when the same is placed there for the purpose of showing that the street is closed. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1964, § 14.170)