850 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 448

of disapproval the Commission shall communicate its reasons
to the state board or official, the municipal council, board or
official, the county commissioners or other county board or
official proposing to locate, construct or authorize such public
way.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the council of a
municipality within the district or the county commissioners of
Montgomery or Prince George's Counties or any other state,
county, municipal or local board or body or officer authorized
by law to accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, curb or
light or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or other utilities
in any street, road, parkway, boulevard, highway or other public
way, shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, re-grade,
pave, curb or light any street, road, parkway, boulevard, high-
way or other public way within the district, or lay or au-
thorize water mains or sewers or other utilities or connections
to be laid in any such street, road, parkway, boulevard, high-
way or other public way within the district, after the commis-
sion shall have adopted and certified a major highway plan
of the district, unless such street, road, parkway, boulevard,
highway or other public way (a) shall have been accepted or
opened as or shall otherwise have received the legal status
of a public way prior to the adoption and certification of such
plan or (b) corresponds in its location with a street, road,
parkway, boulevard or other public way shown on such high-
way plan or with a street or other public way on a subdivision
plat approved by the commission or with a street or other
public way on a plat made by and adopted by the commis-
sion as provided by Section 11 of this Act. A municipal coun-
cil, board of county commissioners or other state, county or
local board or officer authorized by law to accept streets or other
public ways may, however, accept a street or other public way
not shown on or corresponding with such approved plans or
plats, provided the ordinance or other measure accepting such
street be first submitted to the commission for its approval and,
if approved by the commission, be enacted or passed by not less
than a majority of the entire membership of such council,
board of county commissioners or other board or body. If the
Commission shall disapprove the proposed ordinance or other
measure it shall communicate its reasons to the council or
other board or officer. A street or other public way approved
by the commission upon such submission to it, shall there-
upon have the status of an approved street or other public