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216 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 104
alley, or any public highway, for the purpose of installing,
maintaining and operating the sewerage and drainage systems
and treatment works provided for under this Act, and it may
construct in any such street, road or alley or public highway,
a sewer or drain, or any appurtenance thereof, without the
receipt of a permit or the payment of a charge; provided, that
whenever any State, county or municipal highway is to be
disturbed the public authority 'having control thereof shall be
duly notified, and provided further that said highway shall be
repaired and left by the Commission in the same or not inferior
condition to that existing before being torn up, and that all cost
incident thereto shall be borne by the Commission.
SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That any employee or
agent of said Commission shall have the right of entry at all
reasonable hours and after reasonable advance notice to the
owner, tenant or person in possession, upon any private prem-
ises and into any building in the sewerage district, or in those
portions of Anne Arundel County outside of said district,
while in the necessary 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
punishable under Section 13 of this Act.
SEC. 12. 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 Sewerage District, or those por-
tions of Anne Arundel County outside of said district, which
shall block or impede the progress of the Commission's sew-
erage or drainage systems while in- process of construction and
establishment, shall upon reasonable notice from said Commis-
sion, promptly so shift, adjust, accommodate, 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 a taking in the constitutional sense of a franchise or
right in the exercise of which such obstruction had its origin,
the Commission shall be empowered to condemn an easement
. in said franchise or right. And after the building and com-
pletion of said sewerage disposal plant and treatment works, it
shall be unlawful for any person, persons or corporation to
dump or empty, cause or permit to be dumped or emptied, any
sewerage, garbage or filth of any kind in any of the waters men-
tioned in Section 1 of this Act. Any violations of the pro-
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