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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 767

those portions of Prince George's County not now within the
Maryland-Washington Metropolitan District, and from and
after June 1, 1965, the commission's gas fitting regulations
shall apply to all the area within the county.]

[The commission shall] THE WSSC DOES NOT have [no] ANY
jurisdiction[, however,] over bottled gas, [nor shall its]
AND THE WSSC'S rules and regulations DO NOT apply to
premises [upon] ON which only bottled gas is consumed.

[The commission shall have the same authority to adopt
and revise rules and regulations, subject to the same
procedures for adoption and revision, however, as specified
in section 9-2 for the portions of Prince George's County
made subject to the gas fitting regulations by this section,
and a violation of this section or of the commission's rules
and regulations adopted hereunder shall be punishable in the
same manner as specified in section 9-2.]

COMMITTEE NOTE: The first and last sentences of former
Article 67, § 9-3, which related to gas fixtures,
are proposed for repeal because of new language
added to new § 9-102 of this title that includes
all of Prince George's County under the WSSC's
jurisdiction for purposes of regulating gas
fixtures.

TITLE 10. HIGHWAYS AND STREETS.

[10-1] 10-101. WSSC's Right of Entry.

[(a) The commission may enter upon any state, county
or municipal street, road or alley, or any public highway,
for the purpose of installing, maintaining and operating the
water supply, sewerage and drainage system provided for
under this article, and it may construct in any such street,
road or alley or public highway, a water main, sewer or
drain, or any appurtenance thereof, which may be done,
except in the improved streets, roads, highways and alleys
which are maintained by Montgomery County or those streets,
roads, highways and alleys which are being constructed or
are to be constructed by Montgomery County, without the
receipt of a permit or the payment of a charge, and in the
aforesaid streets, roads, highways and alleys of Montgomery
County may be done subject to the provisions of this section
with respect to a permit and reasonable county regulations;
provided, that no regulation, permit or approval requirement
established pursuant to authority, conferred on Montgomery
County hereby shall be administered so as to constitute a
taking, in the constitutional sense, of any such franchise
rights as public service corporations and utility companies
may have in the public highways, streets, roads, ways or
alleys, nor divest the commission of its right to use the
public highways, streets, roads, ways or alleys for the
installation of its facilities, all those rights being