SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       1649

and provided further, that the highway shall be repaired and left
by the Commission in the same condition or in a condition not in-
ferior to, that existing before it was torn up, and that all costs in-
cident thereto shall be borne by the Commission.

439L.

All individuals, firms, or corporations having buildings, conduits,
pipes, tracks, poles, or other structures or obstructions in, on, over,
or through any public road, street, or way, which blocks or impedes
the construction and establishment of the Commission's water sup-
ply, sewerage, or drainage systems, or other works, upon reasonable
notice from the Commission, shall promptly so shift, adjust, accom-
modate, or remove structures or obstructions as fully to meet the
exigencies occasioning such action; provided, however, that the rea-
sonable 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 con-
struction as shown by the plan, except on further approval of the
Commission. Whenever any main, conduit, pole, pipe, or other struc-
ture 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 approved by the Commission, or any approved change
therein, the Commission, if and when such conduit, main, pipe or
pole, or other structure interferes with the construction of or opera-
tion 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 systems or works. Any violation of
the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor punishable under
Section 439X of this subtitle.

439M.

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, when required by this subtitle, by notice in one newspaper pub-
lished in the county and such newspapers and technical press as it
may deem proper, advertise for bids for the construction of the sys-
tem or systems, in part or as a whole, as in its judgment may ap-
pear advisable. The contract shall be let to the lowest responsible
bidder, or the Commission may reject any or all bids; and, if in its
discretion the prices quoted are unreasonable or unbalanced, it may
readvertise the work or any part of it or may do any part or all of
the work by day labor; provided that at any time the Commission, in
its discretion, may expend by day labor for construction an amount