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of said municipality promptly so shift, adjust, accommodate
or remove the same at their own cost and expense, as to fully
meet exigencies occasioning such notice; and should the ex-
igencies of any case involve the taking in a constitutional sense
of the franchise or right, in the exercise of which such obstruc-
tion had its origin the municipality shall be empowered to con-
demn an easement in said franchise or right. Any individual,
firm or corporation before laying any pipe or conduit under
the public highways in any municipality, shall present to the
proper municipal authorities adequate plans showing the size,
type and location of any pipe or conduit to be laid, and shall
not lay any such pipe or conduit until said plans have been
approved and a permit issued by said authorities. Any such
pipe or conduit shall be laid in accordance with the approved
plan. Any proposed deviation from said plans shall be sub-
ject to the approval of said authorities. In case any new pipe
or conduit is laid without the receipt of a permit or not in ac-
cordance with the approved plan, or any approved deviation
therefrom, the individual, firm or corporation so laying said
pipe or conduit shall, upon notice from said authorities, re-
move it or re-adjust it to the satisfaction of said authorities,
but any conduits or pipes laid by individuals, firms or corpora-
tions, in accordance with approved plans and the terms of per-
mits given under this section, if they interfere with the con-
struction of water mains installed by said authorities, shall be
removed or re-adjusted by said authorities without cost to said
individuals, firms or corporations.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That said authorities
shall be empowered and authorized to establish and enforce
compliance with such establishment, street lines and grades
wherever they may deem it necessary or expedient so to do
for the proper construction, establishment or extension of a
water supply system under their control; or street lines and
grades established by individuals, firms or corporations shall
be approved by said authorities wherever they deem it neces-
sary for the proper construction, establishment or extension of
a water supply system at the time of such establishment, or at
a future time; and if any street lines or grades are established
by individuals, firms or corporations without such approval,
said authorities may refuse to give water service to the prop-
erties abutting on streets the lines and grades of which have
been so established.