HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1745

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 condition as, or in condition not
inferior to, that existing before said highway was torn up, and
that all costs incident thereto shall be borne by the Com-
mission.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That any employee or
agent of the Commission shall have the right of entry, at all
reasonable hours, upon any private premises and into any
building, in each sanitary district, while in pursuit of his
official duties, upon first presenting proper credentials from
the Commission, and any restraint or hindrance offered to
such entry to any owner or tenant, or agent of said owner or
tenant, or any other person, shall be a misdemeanor punish-
able under Section 21 of this sub-title.

SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That all individuals,
firms and corporations having buildings, conduits, pipes,
tracks, poles or other structure or obstructions in, on, over,
under or through any public road, street or alley of any sub-
district, which shall block or impede the construction and
establishment of the Commission's water supply, sewerage or
drainage systems, or other works, shall upon reasonable
notice from the Commission, promptly so shift, adjust, accom-
modate or remove such structures or obstructions as to fully
meet the exigencies, occasioning such notice; provided, how-
ever, that the cost of such changes shall be borne and paid
for by the Commission out of the Metropolitan District funds.
Every public service corporation, company or individual be-
fore it or they shall begin any excavation or construction in
any street, road, alley or public highway within any sub-
district shall file with the Commission plans of such work and
construction, showing the location and depth in such street,
road, alley or public highway, of the proposed main, conduit,
pole, pipe, or other structure, and such construction or work
shall not be begun until said plan shall have been approved
by the Commission, nor shall any change be made in said
approved plan or in the work or construction as shown upon
said plans except on further approval of the Commission.
Whenever any main, conduit, pipe, pole or other structure is
put in without the filing of plans with the Commission and the
approval thereof by it, or when any change is made in the
location of such main, conduit, pipe, pole or other structure
as shown upon the plans approved by the Commission, or any
approved change therein, the Commission may, if and when
such conduit, main, pipe or pole, or other structure, interferes
with the construction or operation of its water or sewerage