480 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

shall have jurisdiction to grant such injunction on such alle-
gations being made. A certified copy of any of such rules and
regulations shall be deemed proper evidence of the same in any
of the courts of this State.

342. The Highways Commission shall have all the powers
and be subject to all the obligations now vested in and imposed
upon the County Commissioners of Baltimore County by exist-
ing laws with regard to the granting of franchises or rights
in relation to the public highways, avenues, streets, lanes or
alleys of Baltimore county, and they are hereby declared to
be substituted for the County Commissioners with full power
to act and do all things said County Commissioners may do
or perform under existing laws conferring such powers and
imposing such duties upon said County Commissioners. And
they are hereby further declared to be substituted for the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County in respect to the
adoption or framing of regulations or restrictions in refer-
ence to the planting or maintenance of telegraph, telephone
or electric light poles or the leasing or maintenance of gas or
water mains in Baltimore county under all general or special
laws permitting said County Commissioners to adopt or frame
such regulations or restrictions in reference to the matters
aforesaid.

343. Any person placing any obstruction upon any of the
public highways, roads, bridges, streets, avenues, lanes or alleys
of Baltimore county, or interfering with or obstructing the
side ditches or drains thereof, or encroaching upon the same
with fences or other obstructions, or any person or corporation,
its agents or employes, exercising the business of a common
carrier, permitting his or its vehicles, or steam or other
engines or cars, to obstruct any crossing for a longer period
than ten minutes at any one time, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor and shall be liable to arrest and prosecution at the
instance of any road official, his or their representatives, or
at the instance of any taxpayer of the county, and upon con-
viction by any justice of the peace exercising criminal juris-
diction in Baltimore county, shall be fined in an amount not
less than one dollar for each offense; any person arrested under
this section shall have the right to elect that his case be sent
to the Circuit Court for trial. All fines collected under this
section shall be paid into the general road fund of the county.
This provision shall not prevent the Highways Commission
from adopting other and further regulations in respect to the
subject matter of this section as prescribed by the next pre-
ceding section of this sub-title.