BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                        2175

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] COUNTY'S
water [supply], sewerage, or drainage systems, or other
works, upon reasonable notice from the [Commission] BOARD,
shall promptly so shift, adjust, accommodate, or remove
structures or obstructions as fully to meet the exigencies
occasioning such action; provided, however, that the
reasonable cost of such changes shall be borne by the
[Commission] COUNTY. 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) BOARD 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] BOARD, 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] BOARD. Whenever any main, conduit, pole, pipe,
or other structure is installed without the filing of plans
with the [Commission] BOARD 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] BOARD, or any approved
change therein, the [Commission] BOARD, if and when such
conduit, main, pipe or pole, or other structure interferes
with the construction of or operation of [its] THE water
[or], sewerage OR DRAINAGE system, or other works, may
remove the conduit, sain, 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] COUNTY for damage that might be done to the
same by reason of the [Commission's] BOARD'S operation in
constructing or maintaining [its systems] THE SYSTEM or
works. Any violation of the provisions of this section is a
misdemeanor punishable under Section 15-24 of this subtitle.

15-13.

Whenever the plans and specifications for water
[supply], sewerage, or drainage systems or extensions
thereof shall have been completed and the [Commission] BOARD
has decided to proceed with construction, it shall, when
required by this subtitle, by notice in one newspaper
published in [the county] CARROLL COUNTY and such newspapers
and technical press as it may deem proper, advertise for
bids for the construction of the system or systems, in part
or as a whole, as in its judgment may appear advisable. The
contract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, or
the [Commission] BOARD 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 any time the [Commission] BOARD, in its discretion, may
expend by day labor for construction and for supplies and