STATE ROADS 3293

notify the respective Boards of County Commissioners of the total receipts
credited in each month, the disbursements from said account and the bal-
ance remaining to the credit of the County at the end of each month, and
the amount, if any, of this balance that is encumbered and for what pur-
pose.

An. Code, 1924, art. 91, sec. 32. 1912, art. 91, sec. 37A. 1912, ch. 371, sec. 32E-A.
1922, ch. 253. 1931, ch. 539, sec. 8.

21. No opening shall be made in any such highway, nor shall any
structure be placed thereon, nor shall any structure which has been placed
thereon be changed or renewed except in accordance with a permit from
the commission, which shall exercise complete control over such highways,
except as herein otherwise provided. No State highway shall be dug up
for laying or placing pipes, sewers, poles or wires or railways, or for
other purposes, and no trees shall be planted or removed or obstructions
placed thereon without the written permit of the State Roads Commis-
sion, or its duly authorized agent, and then only in accordance with the
regulations of said commission; and the work shall be done under the
supervision and to the satisfaction of said commission; and the entire
expense of replacing the highway in as good condition as before shall be
paid by the person to whom the permit was given or by whom the work
was done, provided, however, that any municipal corporation not now by
law required to obtain a permit as herein provided shall not be required
to obtain a permit under the provisions of this section; provided, however,
that no electric railway company in operation upon any public or private
road or existing or abandoned turnpike, when acquired hereunder shall
be disturbed in its operation or in the maintenance of its roadbed and
overhead construction, and all necessary repairs, together with the mainte-
nance of the space between its tracks and two feet on each side thereof
shall be performed by such railroad company under the supervision and
to the satisfaction of said commission. And provided further, that when-
ever any State highway shall be constructed over or through any portion
of any street or highway of any incorporated city or town of this State,
such construction shall be in conformity with the grade or grades of such
street or highway, as shall be approved by the municipal authorities of
said city or town. Any violation of any provision of this section shall be
a misdemeanor, and the person or corporation violating the same shall
be liable to prosecution at the instance of said commission, or at the in-
stance of any taxpayer, and upon conviction before any justice of the
peace exercising jurisdiction in the county where the offense shall have
been committed, shall be fined an amount of not less than twenty-five
dollars ($25) and no more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each
offense. Any person arrested under this section shall have the right to
appeal to the circuit court of such county for trial, and all fines collected
under this section shall be paid to the State Roads Commission and by it
applied to the maintenance fund of said commission.

An. Code, 1924, art. 91, sec. 33. 1912, art. 91, sec. 37B. 1914, ch. 490. 1931, ch. 539, sec. 9.

1937, ch. 403.

22. Any person who shall ride, drive or walk upon any new roadbed,
or new repairs of any roadbed, constructed or being constructed by or
under the supervision of the State Roads Commission of Maryland before
the same is opened for traffic, and any person who shall remove any light