1124 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 443

prior to the approval thereof and shall have the same force of
law and be enforceable in the same manner and with the same
sanctions and penalties and subject to the same power of
amendment or repeal as though set out as a part of the zoning
ordinance or map of the municipality.

SEC. 15. Be it enacted, That whoever, being the owner
or agent of the owner of any land located within a sub-division,
transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell any
land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat
of a sub-division, before such plat has been approved by the
planning commission shall forfeit and pay a penalty not ex-
ceeding $100 for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or
agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description of such
lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer
or other document used in the process of selling or transferring
shall not exempt the transaction from such penalties or from.
the remedies herein provided. The municipal corporation
may enjoin such transfers or sale* or agreement by action for
injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or may
recover the said penalty by a civil action in any court of com-
petent jurisdiction.

SEC. 16. Be it enacted, That the municipality shall not
accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, curb, or light any
street, or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or connec-
tions to be laid in any street, within any portion of territory
for which the planning commission shall have adopted a major
street plan, unless such street (a) shall have been accepted or
opened as or shall otherwise have received the legal status of a
public street prior to the adoption of such plan, or unless such
street (b) corresponds with a street shown on the official master
plan or with a street on a sub-division plat approved by the
planning commission or with a street on a street plat made by
and adopted by the commission. The Board of Aldermen may,
however, accept any street not shown on or not corresponding
with a street on the official master plan or on an approved sub-
division plat or an approved street plat, provided the ordinance
or other measure accepting such street be first submitted to the
municipal planning commission for its approval and, if ap-
proved by the commission, be enacted or passed by not less
than a majority of the entire membership of Board or, if dis-
approved by the commission, be enacted or passed by not less
than two-thirds of the entire membership of Board. A street