3134                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 805

of this section. Except in emergency road repair
situations, when notice shall be given as promptly as
feasible under the emergency situations, the notice shall be
given to the commission by the contractor not less than
seven days prior to the commencement of the road
construction work. No individual, firm, or corporation
shall disturb, remove, pave over or repave over any manhole,
valve, fitting, or other water, sanitary sewer, or storm
drainage structure of the commission. The provisions of
this section may be enforced, or a violation thereof
enjoined, upon application of the commission, verified by
oath or affirmation of a member, department head, and/or
division engineer thereof, by the circuit court, sitting in
equity, of the county in which the commission structure is
located.

11-1. Authorized; personnel included; rules and regulations.

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, created by
chapter 122 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1918, be and is hereby authorized and empowered to create
or establish a merit system or classified service to include
all of its employees except the chief engineer, secretary
and/or treasurer, the general manager, if one be appointed,
the heads of the several departments, and part time,
temporary, or contract employees. The commission may
appoint or promote an employee in the classified service to
the office of general manager or to be a department head, or
may designate a classified employee as the incumbent of any
such office on an acting basis, and provide for the
employee's retention in the classified service in the
position or grade from which he was appointed or promoted
and continue to except the positions of general manager and
department heads, as such, from the classified service. The
commission may make such rules and regulations as are
necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this
[subheading] SUBTITLE. [Said] THE commission may abolish,
add to, change or amend such rules and regulations;
provided, however, that all such rules and regulations and
changes thereof shall be approved by the commissioner of
state employment and registration of Maryland, who is
hereinafter called the state commissioner of personnel.

11-2. Position classifications and salaries.

The [said] commission shall establish a list of the
positions and their corresponding salaries to be included
under the merit system or classified service and shall file
this list, within six months after June 1, 1947, with the
state commissioner of personnel. The [said] commission
shall from time to time thereafter, as it may be necessary,
establish additional position classifications, and may
combine, alter or abolish existing classifications and
salaries. Each additional position classification
established or abolished shall be submitted to the state
commissioner of personnel for his approval, giving the
reasons therefor. It shall be the duty of the state