Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                   1445

and its maintenance and operation shall be under the general control
of the Commission; and no such system or part thereof, or no water
main, sewer, water purification or sewage treatment plant, or no
connection with any of them, shall be construced or installed except
as in this section provided, and any violation of this provision shall
be a misdemeanor punishable under Section 601 of this sub-title. All
construction and operating records, including cost records, shall be
filed with the Commission, which shall be empowered at any time to
take over said system or part thereof, or said water main, sewer,
storm water drain, water or sewage treatment plant, or connect on
with any of them in the same manner as provided under Section 597
for systems existing at the time of the passage of this sub-title. The
Commission shall be empowered to extend its water supply, sewerage
or drainage systems into any area outside of any sanitary district
contiguous thereto and not included in any other District or in the
vicinity thereof, when the property owners of said area shall agree
to the charges, assessments and conditions that may be imposed by
the Commission as hereinbefore outlined.

599.    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 such 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
by any owner or tenant, or agent of said owner or tenant, or any
other person, shall be a misdemeanor punishable under Section 601
of this sub-title.

600.   All individuals, firms or corporations having buildings, con-
duits, pipes, tracks, poles or other structures or obstructions in, on,
over, under or through any public road, street or alley of any sanitary
district, which shall block or impede the construction and establish-
ment of the Commission's water supply, sewerage or drainage sys-
tems, or other works, shall upon reasonable notice from the Com-
mission, promptly so shift, adjust, accommodate or remove such
structure or obstructions as to fully meet the exigencies occasioning
such action; provided, however, that the costs of such changes shall
be borne and paid for by the Commission. Every public service
corporation, company or individual before it or they shall begin any
excavation or construction in any street, road, alley or public highway
within any sanitary 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 except on further approval of
the Commission. Whenever any main, conduit, pole, pipe 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 of or
operation of its water or sewage system, or other works, remove
such conduit, main, pipe, pole or other structures or change the loca-
tion thereof at the cost and expense of the party so putting them in,