2646 ARTICLE 66B

1933, ch. 599, sec. 14.

23. (Existing Planning and Zoning Commissions.) The Commission
appointed under this sub-title shall have all powers granted by law hereto-
fore to any planning or zoning commission of the municipality, and from
and after the creation of a Planning Commission hereunder in such
municipality, all powers and records of the then planning and zoning
commission shall be transferred to this Planning Commission, provided,
however, that in the event that any existing planning and zoning com-
mission shall be nearing the completion of its zoning plan, council may, by
resolution, postpone the said transfer of the zoning commission's powers
until the completion of such zoning plan; but such postponement shall not
exceed a period of six months.

Title III. Subdivision Control.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 15.

24. (Subdivision Jurisdiction.) The territorial jurisdiction of any
municipal planning commission over the subdivision of land shall include
all land located in the municipality and all land lying within one mile of
the corporate limits of the municipality and not located in any other
municipality, except that, in, the case of any such non-municipal land
lying within one mile of more than one municipality having a Planning
Commission under this sub-title, the jurisdiction of each such municipal
Planning Commission shall terminate at a boundary line equidistant from
the respective corporate limits of such municipalities.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 16.

25. (Scope of Control of Subdivision.) Whenever a council shall have
adopted a major street plan of the territory within its subdivision juris-
diction or part thereof, and shall have filed a certified copy of such plan
in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such territory or
part is located, then no plat of a subdivision of land within such territory
or part shall be filed or recorded until it shall have been approved by the
Planning Commission and such approval entered in writing on the plat
by the chairman or secretary of the Commission.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 17.

26. (Subdivision Regulations.) Before exercising the powers referred
to in Section 25, the Planning Commission shall prepare regulations gov-
erning the subdivision of land within its jurisdiction. Such regulations
may provide for the proper arrangement of streets, in relation to other
existing planned streets and to the master plan, for adequate and con-
venient open spaces for traffics, utilities, access of fire-fighting apparatus,
recreation, light and air, and for the avoidance of congestion of popula-
tion, including minimum width and area of lots.

Such regulations may include provision as to the extent to which streets
and other ways shall be graded and improved and to which water and
sewer and other utility mains, piping, or other facilities shall be installed
as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. The regulations or
practice of the Commission may provide for a tentative approval of the
plat previous to such installation; but any such tentative approval shall
be revocable and shall not be entered on the plat. In lieu of the comple-