3230 ARTICLE 88C

2. Advise with the various state departments and bureaus and with
local authorities and individuals, with a view to the co-ordination of all
physical development plans, from whatever source originating, that are
related to state activities. .

3. Make surveys of rural land utilization with a view to the deter-
mination, among other things, of the areas suitable for field crops, for
reforestation, for watershed protection, for recreation, for summer resi-
dence, and for urban expansion.

4. Draft for submission to the General Assembly such regulations
affecting the use and development of property as are deemed reasonable and
necessary in the interest of orderly and co-ordinated development, of pre-
serving the integrity of officially approved plans, or of conserving the
natural resources of the state.

5. Collect and publish information relating to welfare problems affect-
ing the people of the State of Maryland, and make such recommendations
thereon to the General Assembly as .may seem advisable and proper.

All public officials shall upon request furnish to such commission within
a reasonable time such available information as it may require for its
work. The commission, its members, officials and employees in the per-
formance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make examina-
tions and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks
thereon. In general, the commission shall have such powers as may be
necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, promote state planning, or
carry out the purposes of this Article.

. Every state department, commission, board or official, before requesting
a legislative or executive approval of a plan or the authorization of an
appropriation for a major public improvement related to or affected by
any general plan or plans prepared under authority of this Article, or
before requesting a change of use or disposition of real property owned
by the state or in which the state has an interest, shall make a written
request to such planning commission for its recommendations, and shall
give such commission a reasonable opportunity to study and make its
recommendations thereon.

1933 (Special Sess.), ch. 39, sec. 3.

3. The State Planning Commission shall prepare and submit to the
General Assembly for adoption plans for a system of existing and pro-
posed state highways and parkways, together with regulations essential
to promote an appropriate, orderly and co-ordinated development of lands
along or adjacent to such highways and parkways. Such plans and regu-
lations shall be designed to promote health, safety and the general wel-
fare; to facilitate the movement of through traffic; to provide for the
accommodation of local traffic, cross traffic and traffic to and from the
abutting frontages; to establish front yard or setback lines along abutting
frontages; to regulate the location of filling stations, garages, lunch
stands, outdoor advertising signs and other uses of property along the ad-
jacent frontages; to regulate the sub-division of land along or adjacent to
such highways and parkways; and to. conserve scenic and historic places
and the natural beauty of the countryside. Such plans and regulations
may be adjusted to the varying conditions throughout the state and to the
character of existing official plans and regulations in force in any county
or municipality. Before approving of such plans and regulations for
submission to the General Assembly the Planning Commission shall hold