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or hindrance offered to such entry by any owner or tenant, or agent of
said owner or tenant, or any other person, shall be a misdemeanor punish-
able under Section 444 of this Article.

1927, ch. 676, sec. 22.

444. All individuals, firms and corporations having buildings, conduits,
pipes, tracks, poles or other structure or obstructions in, on, over, under
or through any public road, street or alley of any sanitary district, or any
portion of Anne Arundel County outside of any sa,nitary district, which
shall block or impede the construction and establishment of the Commis-
sion's water supply, sewerage or drainage system, or other works, shall
upon reasonable notice from the Commission, promptly so shift, adjust,
accommodate or remove such structures or obstructions as to fully meet
the exigencies occasioning such notice; provided, however, that the cost
of such changes shall be borne and paid for by the Commission out of the
sanitary district funds. Every public service corporation, company or
individual before it or they shall begin any excavation or construction in
any street, road, alley or public highway within any sanitary district shall
file with the Commission plans of such work and construction showing
the location and the depth in such street, road, alley or public highway,
of the proposed main, conduit, pole, pipe or other structure, and such con-
struction or work shall not be begun until said plans shall have been ap-
proved by the Commission, nor shall any change be made in said approved
plans or in the work or construction as shown upon said plans except upon
the further approval of the Commission. Whenever any main, conduit,
pipe, pole or other structure is put in without the filing of plans with the
Commission and the approval thereof by it, or when any change is made
in the location of such main, conduit, pipe, pole or other structure as
shown upon the plans approved by the Commission, or any approved
change therein, the Commission may, if and when such conduit, main,
pipe or pole, or other structure, interferes with the construction or opera-
tion of its water and sewer systems, or other works, remove such conduit,
main, pipe, pole or other structure or change the location thereof at the
cost and expense of the party so putting them in, or their assigns or suc-
cessors, and without any liability upon the part of the Commission for
damage that might be done to the same by reason of the Commission's
operations in constructing or maintaining its systems or works. Any vio-
lation of the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor punishable
under Section 444 of this Article.

1927, ch. 676, sec. 23.

445. Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this Act,
unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable by any justice of the peace
or the Circuit Court of the county within which such offense is committed,
and upon summons, warrant or indictment upon the oath or information
of any member of said Commission, or of any agent or employee thereof
when expressly authorized by the Commission, and the offender shall,