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have been no such proceedings, by a judge of a court of law in a
county in which any part of the premises is located.

(d)    Responsibility for payment of taxes.—After taxes have
been adjusted as provided in subsection (b) hereof, it shall be the
responsibility of the condemnor to pay the entire tax bill on the
property taken as well as the property remaining to the condemnee,
if any, less any allowable readjustments or abatements, within thirty
(30) days from the date such adjustment is made and in the event
the condemnor does not pay said taxes within this time, the con-
demnee may pay same and recover the amount so paid from the
condemnor, together with interest thereon from the date of pay-
ment, as a common debt.

(e)    "Taxes" includes benefit charges assessed by special taxing
district.—In addition to any other meaning of the word taxes, for
the purpose of this section the word taxes also shall include all
annual benefit charges assessed by the Washington Suburban Sani-
tary Commission or other special taxing district which are collected
as taxes and they shall be apportioned over the entire period of the
assessment and paid as above set forth for other taxes.

12-112. Rights and Liabilities of Civil Engineers, Surveyors,
etc.; Damaging or Removing Marker, etc.

(a)    Right of entry; right to set stakes, etc.—Civil engineers,
land surveyors and their assistants acting on behalf of the State
or of any of its instrumentalities or of any body politic or corporate
having the power of eminent domain have the right:

(1.) To enter upon any private land to make surveys, to run
lines or levels, or to obtain information relating to the acquisition
or future public use of the property or for any governmental
report, undertaking, or improvement, and

(2.) To set stakes, markers, monuments, or other suitable land-
marks or reference points where necessary.

(b)    Order to permit entry.—If any civil engineer, surveyor, or
assistant to a civil engineer or surveyor is refused permission to
enter or remain upon any private land for the purposes set out in
subsection (a) hereof, any such person, or the State or its instru-
mentality, or the body politic or corporate upon whose behalf such
person is acting may apply to a law court of the county in which the
property or any part thereof is located for an order directing that
such person be permitted to enter upon and remain upon such land
to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes authorized by this
section. Any person having knowledge of such order who obstructs
any civil engineer, surveyor, or assistant to a civil engineer or sur-
veyor who is acting under authority of such order may be punished
as for contempt of the court.

(c)    Damage to or destruction of property.—If any civil engineer,
surveyor, or assistant to a civil engineer or surveyor who has entered
upon any private land under the authority of this section or of any
court order passed pursuant thereto, damages or destroys any real or
personal property thereon, the owner of such property shall have a
cause of action for such damages against such civil engineer, sur-
veyor, or assistant and against the State, its instrumentality, or
the body politic or corporate upon whose behalf the person inflicting
such damage was acting.