2614 ARTICLE 11.

and Council of Mt. Airy. Bills for the amount of the charges as above
specified shall be sent quarterly or semi-annually, as the Mayor and
Council of Mt. Airy may determine, to each property served, and shall

thereupon be payable at the Office of the Mayor and Council of Mt.
Airy; and if any bill shall remain unpaid after thirty days from date

of sending, the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy shall, after written notice
to be left upon the premises or mailed to the last known address of the

owner, turn off the water from the property in question and it shall not
be turned on again until said bills shall have been paid. If any bill shall
remain unpaid for sixty days after being sent out by the Mayor and
Council of Mt. Airy, it shall be collectible against the owner of the prop-
erty served, in the same manner as other debts are collectible in the town
of Mt. Airy.

1924, ch. 126, isec. 13.

601. The Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy may enter upon any State,

county or municipal street, road or alley or any public highway, for the
purpose of installing, maintaining and operating the water supply system
provided for under this Act, and it may construct in such street, road or
alley or public highway, a water main, or any appurtenance thereof, with-

out the receipt of a permit or the payment of a charge; provided that
whenever any state, county or municipal highway is to be disturbed, the
public authority having control thereof shall be duly notified, and provided
further, that said highway shall be repaired and left by the Mayor and
Council of Mt. Airy in the same, or a not inferior condition to that existing
before being torn up, and that all costs incident thereto shall be borne by

the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy.

1924, ch. 126, sec. 14.

602. Any employee or agent of the said Mayor and Council of Mt.
Airy shall have the right of entry, at all reasonable hours, upon any
private premises and into any building in the town of Mt. Airy while in
the pursuit of his official duties, and any restraint or hindrance offered
to such entrance by any owner or tenant, or agent of said owner or tenant,

shall be a misdemeanor, punishable under Section 257 of this sub-title.

1924, ch. 126, sec. 15.

603. Any individual, firm or corporation having buildings, conduits,

pipes, tracks or other physical constructions in, over or under the public
roads, streets, or alleys of the town of Mt. Airy, which shall block or
impede the progress of the water supply system of the Mayor amd Council

of Mt. Airy, while in the process of construction and establishment shall,
upon reasonable notice from said Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy prompt-
ly so shift, adjust, accommodate or remove the same, at their own cost

and expense, as to fully meet the exigencies occasioning the said notice,
and should the exigences of any case involve a taking, in the constitutional
sense, of the franchise or right in the exercise of which such obstruction