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Sec. 39. Injuring sewers, manholes, etc.

No person, while engaged in the construction of house sewers
or otherwise, shall injure, trim, break or remove any portion of
any main or lateral sewer, or "Y", or manhole, lamp-hole, or flushtank,
or do any injury to any house sewer previously laid, and
no penalty fixed by this article shall prevent the city or any property
owner from recovering any damages sustained by reason of
such injury, by appropriate civil action or otherwise. (Id., §
492(4).)