Power of Commissioner to alter position of connections.

The Commissioner may, if at any time he deems it expedient to alter the position of an existing connection with any municipal water-work, or of any consumer’s pipe or fitting thereof, and after giving to the owner of such connection, pipe or fitting not less than four days previous notice of his intension so to do, cause the said connection, pipe or fitting to be moved to such other position as he thinks fit and relaid and applied, or others to be laid and applied in lieu thereof, in such position as he may direct; and in every such case all work shall he carried out at the expenses or the municipal fund and such new connection, pipe and fittings shall thereafter vest in the Corporation and be maintained at the charge of the municipal fund as a municipal water-work.]