3496 ARTICLE 16.

approved by the commission, be enacted or passed by not less than a ma-
jority of the entire membership of such council, board of county commis-
sioners or other board or body. If the Commission shall disapprove the
proposed ordinance, or other measure it shall communicate its reasons to
the council or other board or officer. A street or other public way approved
by the commission upon such submission to it, shall thereupon have the
status of an approved street or other public way as fully as though it had
been originally shown on the official highway plan of the district or on a
plat originally made by the commission or on a subdivision plat approved
by the commission.

1927, oh. 448, aec. 17.

601. The Commission is hereby directed to investigate and report with
recommendations to the Maryland Legislature of 1929 as to transportation
service and facilities within the District, the coordination thereof upon
the highways, roads, bridges, railroads, street railways and other arteries
of traffic; the manner of effecting such co-relationship, and what improve-
ments and new facilities should be provided for a comprehensive and co-
ordinated development of transportation for the District, and the Com-
mission is further directed to submit to the Maryland Legislature of 1929
and to succeeding Legislatures any other recommendations respecting leg-
islation which the Commission, as a result of its activities, may regard as
to the best interests of the District.

1927, ch. 448, sec. 18.

602. Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this Act,
unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable before any justice of the
peace or the Circuit Court of the County in which such offense is com-
mitted and shall be brought by warrant or indictment upon the oath or
information of any member of said Commission or any employee thereof,
and the offender shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding
one hundred ($100.00) dollars or thirty days in the County Jail, or both,
in the discretion of the Court. Where such an act or omission is of a
continuing nature or is persisted in, in violation of the provisions of this
Act or of any rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a conviction for
one offense shall not be a bar to a conviction for a continuation of such
offense subsequent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

1927, ch. 448, sec. 19.

603. For the protection of the health, morals, safety or welfare of the
District, the Commission shall have the power to frame and adopt a plan
or plans for dividing the District into zones or districts, representing the
recommendations of the commission for the limitations and regulation of
the height, the bulk and location including percentage of lot occupancy,
set-back building lines, and area and dimensions of yards, courts and other
open spaces, and the uses of buildings and other structures and of prem-
ises in such zones or districts.