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be a state road or highway, a permit must be obtained from the State
Roads Commission and the work must be done under such rules and
regulations as the State Roads Commission may prescribe, provided that
whenever any State, county or municipal highway is to be disturbed, the
public authority having control thereof shall be duly notified, and pro-
vided further that said highway shall be repaired and left by the Com-
missioners of Leonardtown 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 Commissioners of Leonardtown.

1924, ch. 601, sec. 10.

122. Any individual, firm or corporation, having building, conduits,
pipes, tracks or other physical constructions, in, over or under the public
roads, streets, or alleys of the town of Leonardtown, which shall block
or impede the progress of the water supply system of the Commissioners
of Leonardtown, while in the process of construction and establishment,
shall, upon reasonable notice from said the Commissioners of Leonard-
town, promptly 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 exigencies of any case involve a taking, in the con-
stitutional sense, of the franchise or right in the exercise of which such
obstruction had its origin, the Commissioners of Leonardtown shall be
empowered to condemn an easement in said franchise or right; provided,
however, that nothing in this section or in this Act is intended or is to be
construed as intending to deprive any person of his constitutional rights.
If, however, any part or parts of this Act shall be held unconstitutional,
the parts hereof not held unconstitutional shall remain in full force and
effect. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be a mis-
demeanor punishable under Section 123 of this Article.

1924, ch. 601, sec. 11.

123. Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this Act,
unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable before any Justice of the
Peace, or the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County, and shall be brought
by warrant or indictment upon the oath or information of any member of
said the Commissioners of Leonardtown or any employee thereof, and the
offender shall upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars or 30 days in the county jail, or both, in the discretion of
the Court. Where such act or omission is of continuous nature, and is
persisted in, in violation of the provisions of this Act or any rule or
regulation formulated thereunder, a conviction for one offense shall not
be bar to a conviction for a continuation of such offenses subsequent to
the first or any succeeding conviction.

1924, ch. 601, sec. 12.

124. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act are hereby repealed to the extent of their inconsistency, provided that
nothing herein contained shall be taken as affecting Chapter 810 of the