1092                            Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 349

(d)    Obliterating, damaging or removal of stake, marker, etc.—
Any landowner or other person who wilfully obliterates, damages,
or removes any stake, marker, monument, or other landmark set
by any such civil engineer or surveyor acting pursuant to this sec-
tion, except where such stake, marker, monument or other landmark
interferes with the proper use of the property, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than five
hundred dollars ($500.00).

(e)    Requirements as to use of personal property to be removed.—
No person shall be entitled to any allowance for the costs of removal
and relocation of personal property unless such personal property
has been used by him at its original location and is to be used by him
at its new location.

(f)    Amount of allowance.—The amount of the allowance for the
costs of removal and relocation shall be as the condemnor or purchaser
and the person entitled shall agree, or if they are unable to agree, the
amount shall be determined? upon petition of either party filed after
such removal and relocation have been effected, by a judge of the
court in which the condemnation proceedings were filed, or, if there
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. The award of the
judge shall not exceed the actual 'moving costs.

(g)    Notice prior to removal; opportunity to inspect.—No petition
may be filed hereunder except by the condemnor or purchaser unless
the person entitled to such allowance has given written notice to the
condemnor or purchaser at least ten days prior to the date of removal,
stating the date of intended removal, the identification of the things
to be removed, and the place to which they are to be relocated, and has
given the condemnor or purchaser, upon request, a reasonable oppor-
tunity to inspect any personal property, grave markers, monuments
or burial sites that may be involved.

(h) Limitation on time for filing petition to award allowance.—
Every such petition must be filed within one year after the removal of
the personal property, dead body, grave marker or monument with
respect to which it claims pecuniary allowance.

(i) Payment or reimbursement out of federal funds; federal laws
and regulations authorizing benefits for displacees from public im-
provement projects in Baltimore City.—Nothing in this section shall
be construed to place a limit on the amount of compensation that a
condemnor may allow for moving costs in cases where, under appli-
cable federal law or regulations, such compensation may be paid
wholly or partly out of federal funds or will be wholly or partly
reimbursed to the condemnor out of federal funds. Notwithstanding
the provisions in this section, in Baltimore City, where laws and
regulations of the United States of America authorize benefits for
displacees from public improvement projects, in Baltimore City such
projects being funded by federal monies in whole or in part, con-
demnors, and their duly elected or appointed officers, are hereby
expressly authorized and empowered to do any and all acts and things
necessary to comply with the terms, conditions and provisions of said
laws and regulations in order to obtain the full benefit thereunder
for the condemnors and for the displacees from said projects in Balti-
more City. For the purpose of this section, the term "laws and
regulations of the United States of America" is defined as existing