J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1465

4.13. Right of entry; public premises.

The Commission may enter upon and excavate any State or county
street, road, or way, or any other public highway outside of the
municipalities of Aberdeen, Bel Air, and Havre de Grace, for the
purpose of installing, maintaining, and operating the water supply,
sewerage, or drainage systems provided for under this subtitle; and
it may construct in any such street, road, way, or public highway,
a water main, sewer, or drain or any appurtenances thereof, with-
out the receipt of a permit or the payment of a charge; provided that
whenever any State or county highway is to be disturbed the public
authority having control thereof shall be duly notified; and provided
further, that the highway shall be repaired and left by the Commis-
sion in the same condition or in a condition not inferior to, that
existing before it was torn up, and that all costs incident thereto
shall be borne by the Commission.

414.   Obstructions to Commission's systems.

All individuals, firms, or corporations having buildings, conduits,
pipes, tracks, poles, or other structures or obstructions in, on, over,
under, or through any public road, street, or way, which blocks or
impedes the construction and establishment of the Commission's
water supply, sewerage, or drainage systems, or other works, upon
reasonable notice from the Commission, shall promptly so shift, ad-
just, accommodate, or remove structures or obstructions as fully to
meet the exigencies occasioning such action; provided, however, that
the cost of such changes shall be borne by the Commission. Every
public service corporation, company, or individual before it or they
shall begin any excavation or construction in any street, road, way,
or public highway shall file with the Commission plans of such work
and construction showing the location and depth in such street, road,
way, or public highway of the proposed main, conduit, pole, pipe,
or other structure, and such construction or work shall not be begun
until the plan is approved by the Commission, nor shall any change
be made in the approved plan or in the work or construction as shown
by the plan, except on further approval of the Commission. When-
ever any main, conduit, pole, pipe, or other structure is installed
without the filing of plans with the Commission and the approval
thereof by it, or when any change is made in the location of the main,
conduit, pipe, pole, or other structure as shown upon the plans ap-
proved by the Commission, or any approved change therein, the Com-
mission, if and when such conduit, main, pipe or pole, or other struc-
ture interferes with the construction of or operation of its water or
sewerage system, or other works, may remove the conduit, main,
pipe, pole, or other structures or change the location thereof at the
cost and expense of the party so putting them in, or their heirs,
assigns, or successors, and without any liability upon the part of the
Commission for damage that might be done to the same by reason of
the Commission's operation in constructing or maintaining its sys-
tems or works. Any violation of the provisions of this section is a
misdemeanor punishable under Section 425 of this subtitle.

415.   Contract for work; bids.

Whenever the plans and specifications for water supply, sewerage,
or drainage systems or extensions thereof shall have been completed
and the Commission has decided to proceed with construction, it shall,