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Ch. 96
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Any employee or agent of the commission has the
right of entry, at all reasonable hours, upon any private
premises and into any building in the sanitary district,
while in pursuit of his official duties, upon first
presenting proper credentials from the commission. The
commission or its agent or employees may order and
require such changes in plumbing, water usage or water or
sewer connections as it deems necessary to eliminate
leakage, loss of water, unnecessary or improper use of
sewers. The commission shall exercise control of the
water supply at all times and in case of shortage of
water or, for any other reason, the commission, in the
exercise of its discretion, may determine that the water
supply should be conserved. The consumers, upon notice
from the commission, its agents or employees, or upon
notice published in one newspaper published in the county
for one insertion, shall comply with any order passed by
the commission to conserve the water supply. In addition
to any other penalty herein prescribed, the commission
may turn off the water supply of any person violating
such an order at any time without further notice. Any
restraint or hindrance offered by any owner, tenant, or
agent or any other person, to the right of entry in this
section provided or any violation of any order issued
pursuant to this section is a misdemeanor punishable
under section [10A-21] 10A-23.
10A-10.
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, adjust,
accommodate, or remove structures or obstructions as
fully to meet the exigencies occasioning [such] THE
action; provided, however, that the cost of [such] THE
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] THE 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. Whenever
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 approved by the
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