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TITLE V. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

1933. ch. 599. sec. 25.

34. Enforcement and Remedies. The council may provide by ordi-
nance for the enforcement of this sub-title and of any ordinance or regula-
tion made thereunder. A violation of this sub-title or of such ordinance
or regulation is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and such local legis-
lative body may provide for the punishment thereof by fine or imprison-
ment or both. It is also empowered to provide civil penalties for such
violation.

In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed,
altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, or any building, structure, or
land is used in violation of this sub-title or of any ordinance or other regu-
lations made under authority conferred hereby, the proper local authori-
ties of the municipality, in addition to other remedies, may institute any
appropriate action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful erection, con-
struction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance, or
use, to restrain, correct or abate such violation, to prevent the occupancy
of said building, structure, or land, or to prevent any illegal act, conduct,
business, or use in or about such premises.

1933, ch. 599. sec. 20.

35. Conflict With Other Laws. Wherever the regulations made under
authority of this sub-title require a greater width or size of yards, courts,
or other open spaces, or require a lower height of building or less number
of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied or
impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute or
local ordinance or regulations, the provisions of the regulations made under
authority of this sub-title shall govern. Wherever the provisions of any
other statute or local ordinance or regulation require a greater width or
size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height of
building or a less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of a lot
to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required
by the regulations made under authority of this sub-title, the provisions of
such statute or local ordinance or regulation shall govern; provided, how-
ever, that within the limits of the Maryland-Washington Metropolitan
District in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties—in which District
there is now in, effect city and regional planning and zoning, which are
being administered by existing agencies under existing law—this sub-title
shall be construed wherever possible as supplemental to Chapter 448 of the
Laws of Maryland of 1927, as amended; and within the said District the
several additional and supplemental powers or any of them vested by this
sub-title in the "municipality, " and/or the "council, " shall be construed to
be vested exclusively in and may be exercised within their discretion only
by the respective Boards of County Commissioners acting as the District
Council, as provided in the said Chapter 448, as amended; and within the
said District in like manner the several additional and supplemental powers