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(3) The company shall not remove or displace any of the mains or pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires, standards, poles or apparatus, or other work belonging to any such Department or person, or do anything to impede the passage of water or gas, or the telegraphic, telephonic, electric lighting, or other communication into or through such mains or pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires, standards, poles or apparatus, without the consent of such Department or person, or in any other manner than such Department or person shall approve, until good and sufficient mains, pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires, standards, poles or apparatus, and other works necessary or proper for continuing the supply of water or gas, or telegraphic, telephonic, electric lighting or other communication as sufficiently as the same was supplied by the mains or pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires, standards, poles or apparatus proposed to be removed or displaced, shall, at the expense of the company, have been first made and laid down in lien thereof and be ready for use to the reasonable satisfaction of the surveyor or engineer of such Department or person, or, in case of disagreement between such surveyor or engineer and the company, in such manner as the Director of Public Works, or other fit and proper person specially appointed by the Governor shall direct.
(4) All alterations to be made under this section shall be made with as little detriment and inconvenience to such Department or person as the circumstances will admit of and under the superintendence of such Department or person, or of its or his surveyor or engineer.
(5) The company shall not lay down any such mains or pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires, standards, poles or apparatus contrary to the provisions of any Ordinance relating to water, gas or other companies, or to telegraphs.
(6) The company shall make good all damage done by it to property belonging to or controlled by any such Depart- ment or person, and shall make full compensation to all parties for any loss or damage which they may sustain by reason of any interference with such property or with the private service pipes or wires of any person supplied by any such Department or person with water or gas or electric light unless such Department or person shall, by or by reason of their or his own default, neglect or omission, have
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contributed to or assisted in the doing, happening, or bringing about of such loss or damage.
(7) If by any such operations as aforesaid the company interrupts the supply of water or gas or electric light in or through any main, pipe or wire for a period exceeding twelve consecutive hours, it shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day or portion of a day after the expiration of such period of twelve hours during which such supply shall be so interrupted.
of sewers.
• etc.
20. When the tramway or any works connected therewith Protection interferes with any sewer, drain, watercourse, or subway, or in any way affects the sewerage or drainage of the Colony the company shall not commence the construction of the tramway or works until it shall have given to the Director of Public Works fourteen days previous notice in writing. of its intention so to do, and shall have left with such notice all necessary particulars relating thereto, nor until the Director of Public Works shall have signified his written approval of the same, unless he does not signify his approval, disapproval or other directions within fourteen days after service of the said notice and particulars as aforesaid; and the company shall comply with the directions of the Director of Public Works in the execution of the said works, and shall provide by new, altered or substituted works, in such manner as the Director of Public Works shall require, for the proper protection of, and for preventing injury or impediment to the sewers, drains, watercourses, subways, sewerage or drainage herein before referred to by or by reason of the tramway, and shall save harmless the Director of Public Works against the expense occasioned thereby; and all such works shall be done by or under the superin- tendence of the Director of Public Works at the cost and expense of the company, and when any new, altered, or substituted works shall be completed by or at the cost or expense of the company under this Ordinance, the same shall thereafter be as completely under the control of the Director of Public Works, and be maintained by him, as any other sewers, drains, watercourses, subways, sewerage or drainage.
21. If any cable or line used for the purpose of tele- Protection of graphic, telephonic, or electric signalling communication, Government now or hereafter to be constructed and worked in the Colony cables or
* As amended by No. 17 of 1913.
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