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reasonable hours, upon any private premises and into any
building in the Sanitary District, or in those portions of Mont-
gomery and Prince George's Counties outside of said District,
while in the pursuit of his official duties, and any restraint or
hindrance offered to such entry by any owner or tenant, or
agent of said owner or tenant, shall be a misdemeanor punish-
able under Section 21 of this Act.

SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That all individuals,
firms and corporations having buildings, conduits, pipes, tracks
or other physical obstructions in, over or under the public
roads, streets or alleys of the Sanitary District, or of those
portions of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties outside
of said District, which shall block or impede the progress of
the Commission's water supply, sewerage or drainage systems,
while in process of construction and establishment, shall, upon
reasonable notice from said Commission, promptly so shift,
adjust, accommodate or remove the same, at their own cost and
expense, as to fully meet the exigencies occasioning such no-
tice; and should the exigencies of any case involve a taking, in
the constitutional sense, of the franchise or right in the exer-
cise of which such obstruction had its origin, the Commission
shall be empowered to condemn an easement in said franchise
or right. Any violation of the provisions of this Section shall
be a misdemeanor punishable under Section 21 of this Act.

SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That every Act or
omission designated as a misdemeanor in this Act, unless other-
wise provided, shall be punishable before any justice of the
peace or the Circuit Court of the County within which such
offense is committed and shall be brought by warrant or indict-
ment upon the oath or information of any member of said
Commission or any employee thereof, and the offender shall,
upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding $100 or
thirty days in the County jail, or both, in the discretion of the
court. Where such act or omission is of a continuing nature
and is persisted in, in violation of the provisions of this Act
or of any rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a convic-
tion for one offense shall not be a bar to a conviction for a
continuation of such offense subsequent to the first or any
succeeding conviction.

SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That the Public Service
Commission of Maryland is hereby given jurisdiction to deter-
mine upon appeal, the reasonableness of all assessments, tax