600                              Laws of Maryland                        Ch. 248

any area outside of any sanitary district contiguous thereto and not
included in the territory under the jurisdiction of 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. When an
offer by the commission to purchase in the manner provided under
Section 665 of this subtitle, a water or sewerage system con-
structed under the provisions of this section, is rejected or not
accepted within ninety (90) days by the developer or builder, the
commission shall have the right to proceed in condemnation under
the provision of Article 33A.

668.

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 alley of any sanitary
district, which shall block or impede the construction [and] , estab-
lishment or operation of the district's water , [or] sewerage or
solid waste disposal systems or solid waste acceptance facilities or
other works, shall upon reasonable notice from the commission,
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 district. Every public service corporation, com-
pany 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 con-
struction as shown upon said plan 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 district may, if and when such conduit, main, pipe, or
pole, or other structure, interferes with the construction of or opera-
tion of its water, for] sewerage or solid waste disposal system or
solid waste acceptance facility or other works, remove such 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 district for damage that might be done to the same by reason
of the district's operations in constructing or maintaining its sys-
tems, facilities or works. Any violation of the provisions of this
section shall be a misdemeanor punishable under Section 669 of this
subtitle.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any provision of this
Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is
held invalid for any reason, the invalidity shall not affect the other
provisions or any other application of this Act which can be given
effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to this end
all the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.