1868 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 760

other higher standards than are required in any other statute
or local ordinance or regulations, the provisions of the regu-
lations made under authority of this sub-title shall govern.
Wherever the provisions of any other statute or local ordi-
nance 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
Regional District as said District is now or shall here-
after be defined by law, in Montgomery and Prince George's
Counties—in which District there is now in effect city
and regional planning and zoning, which are being ad-
ministered by existing agencies under existing law—this sub-
title shall be construed wherever possible as supplemental to
Chapter 992 of the Laws of Maryland 1943, 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 con-
strued to be vested exclusively in and may be exercised within
their discretion only by the respective Board of County Com-
missioners acting as the District Council, as provided in
said Chapter 992, as amended; and within the said Dis-
trict in like manner the several additional and supplemental
powers or any of them vested by this sub-title in the "Com-
mission" and in the "Board of Appeals", respectively, shall be
construed to be vested exclusively in and may be exercised
only, within their discretion, by The Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission and/or the respective
Board of Zoning Appeals of the County affected; and provided
further, that insofar as the provisions of this sub-title may be
inconsistent with or contrary to the provisions of Chapter
992 of the Laws of Maryland of 1943, as amended, such
provisions shall have no application within the Maryland-
Washington Regional District, but nothing contained herein
shall be deemed or construed to affect the validity of said
Chapter 992, as amended; and provided further, that nothing
in this sub-title shall apply to Baltimore City, Kent County,
Queen Anne's County, Wicomico County, Worcester County,
Caroline County, Howard County, St. Mary's County, Anne
Arundel County, and Harford County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 25, 1947.