1330 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 599

visions for traffic, the promotion of safety from fire and
other dangers, adequate provision for light and air, the
promotion of the healthful and convenient distribution of
population, the promotion of good civic design and arrange-
ment, wise and efficient expenditure of public funds, and
the adequate provision of public utilities and other public
requirements.

SEC. 8. PROCEDURE OF COMMISSION. The Commission
may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution or
may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts of the
plan, said parts corresponding with major geographical
sections or divisions of the municipality or with functional
subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan, and may
adopt any amendment or extension thereof or addition
thereto. Before the adoption of the plan or any such part,
amendment, extension, or addition the Commission shall
hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time
and place of which shall be given by one publication in a
newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. The
adoption of the plan or of any such part or amendment or
extension or addition shall be by resolution of the Commis-
sion carried by the affirmative votes of not less than three
members of the Commission. The resolution shall refer
expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter in-
tended by the Commission to form the whole or part of the
plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the map
and plan and descriptive matter by the identifying signa-
ture of the chairman and/or secretary of the Commission.
An attested copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certi-
fied to council and to the county recorder.

SEC. 9. LEGAL STATUS OF OFFICIAL PLAN. Whenever
the Commission shall have adopted the master plan of the
municipality or of one or more major sections or districts
thereof no street, square, park or other public way, ground,
or open space, or public building or structure, or public
utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be con-
structed or authorized in the municipality or in such
planned section and district until the location, character,
and extent thereof shall have been submitted jto and ap-
proved by the Commission; provided, that in case of dis-
approval the Commission shall communicate its reason to
council, which shall have the power to overrule such dis-
approval by a recorded vote of not less than two-thirds of
its entire membership; provided, however, that if the public
way, ground, space, building, structure or utility be one