The 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, 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 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 county.
(Code 1959, § 10A-15; 1968, Chapter 609, § 1; 1979, Chapter 723, § 1)
Editor’s note:
Ch. 723 of the 1979 Acts designated the above section as section 10A-15 of the 1959 county code; however, such section constitutes an amendment and renumbering of former section 10A-9 of the 1959 Code.