944 ARTICLE 4.

as therein provided. He shall have control and supervision of the streets,
highways, lanes and alleys of the City of Baltimore, both as to their con-
struction, paving, curbing and maintenance. He shall have charge of
the construction and maintenance of all sewers, unless otherwise provided
by ordinance of the City Council. He shall be a civil engineer in the
active practice of his profession for five years, and one who has had respon-
sible charge of work for at least that length of time. He shall perform
all the duties heretofore performed by the City Engineer, unless other-
wise provided in this Charter. He shall receive a salary of forty-five
hundred dollars ($4,500.00) per annum, payable monthly, and perform
such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent with
this Charter. He shall have power to appoint such subordinates as he
may require, and fix their compensation, not, however, to exceed in num-
ber or compensation the limits fixed by ordinance.
See sec. 85A.

PROTECTION OF IMPROVED PAVEMENTS.

1906, ch. 798.

86A. Whenever any of the streets, lanes or alleys of the City of Balti-
more are to be paved or repaved with any new or improved pavements,
the Highways Engineer before said paving or repaving is proceeded with
shall cause a notice to be inserted in two daily newspapers published in
the City of of Baltimore, once a week for four successive weeks, notifying
all persons and corporations that upon the expiration of a day to be named
in said notice, said day not to be less than six weeks from the date of the
first insertion of said notice, he will proceed with said paving or repaving
and warning said persons and corporations to obtain permits for and to
complete all work that might in any way necessitate the digging or tear-
ing up of the said street, lane or alley, or any part thereof when so paved
or repaved, before said day, and written or printed notices of like tenor
and effect shall likewise at least four weeks before the expiration of said
day, be served by the Highways Engineer, or on his behalf, upon all per-
sons or corporations that he may suppose to be interested in receiving such
notices, provided, however, that the service of such last mentioned notices
shall not be so construed as to be one of the prerequisites to the validity
of the proceedings by the city under this and the succeeding section of
this Charter.

1906, ch. 798.

86B. The said pavement or repavement when thereafter laid shall in
no event be dug or torn up in whole or in part at the instance of or by
any person or corporation, unless in the case of some special emergency
that could not under the circumstances be reasonably expected to have
been foreseen by said person or corporation, except upon a permit obtained
therefor, signed and issued by the Mayor and Highways Engineer, jointly,
which said permit said Mayor and Highways Engineer are expressly em-