Code of Massachusetts Regulations
700 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Title 700 CMR 6.00 - Use of Road Flaggers and Police Details on Public Works Projects
Section 6.05 - Use of Road Flaggers and Police Details

(1) High Speed Roads. Except as otherwise provided in 700 CMR 6.05(1), the Construction Zone Safety Plan shall require that Police Details be used in all Construction Zones located on High Speed Roads. When the Awarding Authority, acting in accordance with 700 CMR 6.00, determines that it is appropriate under the Construction Zone Safety Plan and consistent with public safety to do so, it may call for the use of Road Flaggers on High Speed Roads where traffic flow has been separated from the Construction Zone through the use of continuous, connected barriers such as temporary concrete traffic barriers, crash walls, or other similar median barriers.

(2) Low Speed Roads and Low Traffic High Speed Roads. Except as otherwise provided in 700 CMR 6.05(2), the Construction Zone Safety Plan shall require that Road Flaggers be used in all Construction Zones located on all Low Speed Roads and on all Low Traffic High Speed Roads. When the Awarding Authority, acting in accordance with 700 CMR 6.00, determines that it is appropriate under the Construction Zone Safety Plan and consistent with public safety to do so, it may call for the use of Police Details on Low Speed Roads and Low Traffic High Speed Roads.

(3) Use of Neither Police Details nor Road Flaggers. Notwithstanding 700 CMR 6.05(1) and 6.05(2), in instances when it is appropriate under the Construction Zone Safety Plan, and possible to protect the Construction Zone from vehicular traffic and to ensure the public safety, the Authorized Representative shall have the authority to determine that neither Road Flaggers nor Police Details are needed on all or a portion of a Public Works Project.