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promulgated under authority of this section shall be misdemeanor, pun-
ishable under Section 348-0.

1927, ch. 641, sec. 348-1.

348-I. Municipal authorities are authorized and empowered to take over
by purchase or condemnation any privately owned water supply, sewerage,
drainage or refuse disposal system. Such condemnation proceedings shall
be in accordance with the provisions of Section 348B. When any such pri-
vate system is taken possession of, said authorities may extend or alter and
maintain or operate said system in conjunction with their general system,
and thereafter all properties along the lines of said privately owned sys-
tems, so taken over, shall stand in the same relation, bear the same bene-
fit assessment, and be subject to the same regulations and penalties as
though the system so acquired had been constructed and put into opera-
tion by said authorities; provided, however, that said authorities may take
into account and compensate for any portion of the cost of constructing
the privately owned system that they may determine to have been paid by
properties abutting upon any portion of said system. Whenever there is in
existence a. privately owned water supply, sewerage, drainage or refuse dis-
posal system, which, in the judgment of said authorities is unfit as a whole
or in part for incorporation into the general system established by said au-
thorities, said authorities may disregard the existence of said system or
unfit part thereof, and extend their system to serve the area tributary to
the existing private system or unfit part thereof, and all the provisions of
Sections 348A-348R relating to systems constructed by said authorities
shall apply to said extensions.

1927, ch. 641, sec. 348J.

348J. Municipal authorities may enter upon any highway for the
purpose of installing, extending, altering, maintaining and operating a
water supply, sewerage, drainage and refuse disposal system, and may con-
struct or repair in any highway a water main, sewer or drain, or any ap-
purtenance thereof upon the receipt of a permit from the proper authori-
ties; provided, that whenever any highway is disturbed, said highway shall
be repaired and left by said municipal authorities in the same or a not in-
ferior condition to that existing before entry, and that all cost incident
thereto shall be borne by said municipal authorities.

1927, ch. 641, sec. 348K.

348K. All individuals, firms and corporations having buildings, con-
duits, pipes, tracks, or other physical obstruction in, over or under the pub-
lic roads, streets, or alleys of any county or municipality which shall block
or impede the progress of a municipal water supply, sewerage, drainage, or
refuse disposal system while in process of construction, establishment, alter-
ation or repair, shall upon reasonable notice from the authorities of. said
municipality, promptly so shift, adjust, accommodate or remove the same,
as to fully meet exigencies occasioning such notice; provided, however, that
the cost of such changes shall be borne and paid for by the municipality,