HARRY HUGHES, Governor

2049

Any employee or agent of the [commission] COUNTY has
the right of entry, at all reasonable hours, upon any
private premises and into any building in the [sanitary
district,] SERVICE AREA while in pursuit of his official
duties, AFTER REASONABLE NOTICE AND upon first presenting
proper credentials from the [commission] BOARD. The
[commission] BOARD or [its] THE COUNTY'S agent or employees
may order and require such changes in plumbing, water usage
[or] DRAINAGE, water or sewer connections as it deems
necessary to eliminate leakage, loss of water, unnecessary
or improper use of sewers. The [commission] BOARD shall
exercise control of the water supply at all times and in
case of shortage of water or, for any other reason, the
[commission] BOARD, in the exercise of its discretion, may
determine that the water supply should be conserved. The
consumers, upon notice from the [commission] COUNTY, its
agents or employees, or upon notice published in one
newspaper published in [the] FREDERICK county for one
insertion, shall comply with any order passed by the
[commission] BOARD to conserve the water supply. In
addition to any other penalty herein prescribed, the
[commission] COUNTY may turn off the water supply of any
person violating such an order at [tny] ANY time without
further notice. Any UNREASONABLE 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-23] 10A—30 OF THIS
CHAPTER. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION IS APPLICABLE WITHIN ANY
MUNICIPALITY OR TO ANY WATER AND SEWERAGE SYSTEM OPERATED BY
A MUNICIPALITY UNLESS AUTHORIZED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION
10A—6 OF THIS CHAPTER.

[10A-9.] 10A-15.

The [commission] BOARD may enter upon and excavate any
state or county street, road, or way, or any other public
highway WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA, for the purpose of
installing, maintaining, and operating the water [supply],
sewerage, or drainage systems provided for under this
chapter; and it may construct in any such street, road, way,
or public highway, a water main, sewer, or drain or any
appurtenances thereof, without the receipt of a permit or
the payment of a charge; provided, that whenever any state
or county highway WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA is to be
disturbed, the public authority having control thereof shall
be duly notified; and provided further, that the highway
shall be repaired and left by the [commission] BOARD in the
same condition or in a condition not inferior to[,] that
existing before it was torn up, and that all costs incident
thereto shall be borne by the [commission] COUNTY.

[10A-10.] 10A-16.

All individuals, firms, or corporations having
buildings, conduits, pipes, tracks, poles, or other
structures or obstructions in, on, over, under, or through