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pose of making surveys, running lines of levels, or obtaining any needful
information or data for the preparation of plans, reports or new legislation
necessary for any proposed public sewerage system, water works, estab-
lishment of corporate boundaries or any extension of the same, highways or
improvements thereto, or any public undertaking of like nature.

An. Code, sec. 19. 1916, ch. 649, sec. 2.

20. Civil engineers and surveyors, when acting under the authority of
this sub-title, shall not damage or destroy any property or lands entered
by them in the performance of their work, but they shall have the right to
set stakes, markers or monuments or other suitable landmarks or reference
points where necessary.

An. Code, sec. 20. 1916, ch. 649, sec. 3.

21. No owner, occupant or agent of private lands so entered shall
obstruct, impede or annoy civil engineers or surveyors, or their employees,
in the performance of their work under this sub-title, nor shall any such
owner, occupant, or agent, destroy, obliterate or remove any stakes, markers,
monuments or other landmark set or placed by such civil engineers or
surveyors; and any owner, occupant, or agent violating the provisions of
this sub-title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a fine of not
less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), nor more than one hundred dollars
($100.00), or to imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than
sixty days, or both, in the discretion of the Court.