ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1041

shift, adjust, accommodate or remove the same, at their own
cost and expense as to fully meet the exigencies occasioning
such notice; and should the exigencies of any case involve the
taking, in the constitutional sense, of the franchise or right in
the exercise of which such construction had its origin, the
Mayor and Council shall be empowered to condemn an ease-
ment in said franchise or right. Every public service corpor-
ation, company or individual, before it or they shall begin any
underground construction in any street, road, alley or public
highway within the town of Sykesville, shall file with the
Mayor and Council a plan of such construction showing the
location and depth in such street, road, alley or public high-
way of the proposed main, conduit or pipe; which plans must
be approved by the Mayor and Council before any construction
is begun; and when approved no change shall be made in the
physical location of anything shown upon said plan execpt
upon the approval of the Mayor and Council. Whenever any
such underground main, conduit or pipe is put in without the
filing of plans with the Mayor and Council and the approval
thereof, or when any change is made in the physical location
of such underground main, conduit or pipe, as shown upon the
plans approved by the Mayor and Council, or any approved
change therein, the Mayor and Council, when such conduit,
main or pipe interferes with the construction or operation of
its water and sewer systems, remove the same or change the
location thereof at the cost and expense of the party so put-
ting them in, or its successors, and without any liability upon
the part of the Mayor and Council for damage that might be
done to the same by reason of the Mayor and Council's opera-
tions in constructing or maintaining its systems. Any viola-
tion of the provisions of this Section shall be a misdemeanor
punishable under Section 16 of this Act.

SEC. 15. And ~be it further enacted, That whenever it shall
be deemed necessary by the Mayor and Council to take or ac-
quire any land, structures or" buildings, or any stream-bed,
water-way, water rights or water shed, either in fee or as an
easement, within the town of Sykesville, for the construction,
extension or maintenance of any water main, sewer, or appur-
tenance thereof, or for any sewage disposal plant, reservoir,
water purification plant, tank or pumping station, the Mayor
and Council may purchase the same from the owners.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That every act or pun-
ishable before any as a misdemeanor in this Act, unless other-