500 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 304

the purpose of installing, maintaining and operating the sewer-
age system and sewage disposal plant provided for under this
Charter, and they may construct in such street, road or alley
or public highway a sewer or any appurtenance thereof, but
first must obtain a permit without charge from the proper
authorities controlling such street, road or alley or public
highway, provided that whenever any State, County or Munic-
ipal highway is to be disturbed that said highway shall be
repaired and left by the Commissioners, in the same, or a not
inferior, condition to that existing before being torn up, and
that all costs incident thereto shall be borne by the Commis-
sioners.

120. Upon application to the Commissioners any property
owner, whose property does not abut on a sewer, may have his
property connected with the system at his own expense, ex-
cept that the Commissioners shall install and pay for the
portion referred to in Section 112; and thereafter his prop-
erty shall be assessed as though abutting on the sewer, pro-
vided, however, that said Commissioners shall have the right
at any and all times to treat such property in the same man-
ner as they would private property, under Section 117.

121. Any individual, firm or corporation having buildings,
conduits, pipes, tracks, or other physical construction in, over
or under the public roads, streets or alleys of the area served
by the sewerage system and sewage disposal plant that block
or impede the progress of the Commissioners in constructing
their sewerage system and sewage disposal plant shall, upon
reasonable notice from said Commissioners, promptly shift,
adjust, move or remove same at their own cost and expense,,
so as to fully meet the exigencies of the occasion.

122. The Commissioners and any employee or agent of said
Commissioners shall have the right of entry at all reasonable
hours, upon any private premises and into any building within
their jurisdiction, while in the performance of their official,
duties; and any restraint or hindrance offered to such entry,
by an owner or tenant or agent of said owner or tenant shall
be a misdemeanor, punishable under Section 123.

123. Every act or omission designated a misdemeanor in
this Charter shall be prosecuted before a Justice of the Peace
or by indictment and upon conviction, the offender shall be
subject to a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100. 00)
or thirty (30) days in the county jail, or both, in the discretion
of the Court or Justice. Where such act or omission is of a
continuing nature and is persisted in, in violation of the pro-
visions of this Charter or any rule or regulation formulated