WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1323

ing and operating a water supply system, and may construct
or repair in any such highway a water main or any appur-
tenance thereof upon the receipt of a permit from the
proper authorities, provided that whenever any highway
is disturbed, said highway shall be repaired and left by
said authorities in the same or a not inferior condition to
that existing before entry, and that all costs incident
thereto shall be borne by said authorities.

155 L All individuals, firms and corporations having
buildings, conduits, pipes, tracks or other physical ob-
structions in, over or under the public roads, streets, or
alleys of the county or municipality which shall block or
impede the progress of the municipal water supply system
while in process of construction, establishment, alteration
or repair, shall upon reasonable notice from the authori-
ties of said municipality promptly so shift, adjust, accom-
modate or remove the same at their own cost and expense,
as to fully meet exigencies occasioning such notice, and
should the exigencies of any case involve the taking in a
constitutional sense of the franchise or right, in the exer-
cise of which such obstruction had its origin the munici-
pality shall be empowered to condemn and easement in
said franchise or right. Any individual, firm or corpora-
tion before laying any pipe or conduit under the public
highways in any municipality, shall present to the proper
municipality authorities adequate plans showing the size,
type and location of any pipe or conduit to be laid, and
shall not lay any such pipe or conduit until said plans
have been approved and a permit issued by said authori-
ties. Any such pipe or conduit shall be laid in accordance
with the approved plan. Any proposed deviation from said
plans shall be subject to the approval of said authorities.
In case any new pipe or conduit is laid without the receipt
of a permit or not in accordance with the approved plan,
or any approved deviation therefrom, the individual, firm
or corporation so laying said pipe or conduit shall, upon
notice from said authorities, remove it or readjust it to
the satisfaction of said authorities, but any conduits or
pipes laid by individuals, firms or corporation, in accord-
ance with approved plans and the terms of permits given
under this section, if they interfere with the construction
of water mains installed by said authorities, shall be
removed or readjusted by said authorities without cost to
said individuals, firms or corporations.

155M Said authorities shall be empowered and author-
ized to establish and enforce compliance with such estab-