MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3495

ments prior to the approval of the plat, the Commission may accept a
bond with surety to secure to the Commission the actual construction and
installation of such improvements and developments as a time and accord-
ing to specifications fixed by or in accordance with the regulations of the
Commission. The Commission is hereby granted the power to enforce
such bond by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies.

1927, ch. 448, sec. 15.

599. Whenever the Commission shall have adopted a plan for the
major streets, roads, parkways, boulevards, highways and other public
ways of the district and shall have certified such plan to the Clerks of the
Circuit Court, respectively, of Montgomery and Prince George's Coun-
ties, then no street, road, parkway, boulevard, highway or other public
way shall be located or constructed or authorized within the district until
the location, character, extent, grade and arrangement thereof shall have
been submitted to and approved by the Commission; provided that in case
of disapproval the Commission shall communicate its reasons to the state
board or official, the municipal council, board or official, the county com-
missioners or other county board or official proposing to locate, construct
or authorize such public way.

1927, ch. 448, sec. 16.

600. The council of a municipality within the district or the county
commissioners of Montgomery or Prince George's Counties or any other
state, county, municipal or local board or body or officer authorized by
law to accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, curb or light or lay
or authorize water mains or sewers or other utilities in any street, road,
parkway, boulevard, highway or other public way, shall not accept, lay
out, open, improve, grade, regrade, pave, curb or light any street, road,
parkway, boulevard, highway or other public way within the district, or
lay or authorize water mains or sewers or other utilities or connections to
be laid in any such street, road, parkway, boulevard, highway or other
public way within the district, after the commission shall have adopted
and certified a major highway plan of the district, unless such street, road,
parkway, boulevard, highway or other public way (a) shall have been
accepted or opened as or shall otherwise have received the legal status of
a public way prior to the adoption and certification of such plan or (b)
corresponds in its location with a street, road, parkway, boulevard or other
public way shown on such highway plan or with a street or other public
way on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or with a street
or other public way on a plat by and adopted by the commission as pro-
vided by Section 595 of this subtitle. A municipal council, board of
county commissioners or other state, county or local board or officer author-
ized by law to accept streets or other public ways may, however, accept
a street or other public way not shown on or corresponding with such ap-
proved plans or plats, provided the ordinance or other measure accepting
such street be first submitted to the commission for its approval and, if