1492 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 714

in the District until and unless the proposed location,
character, grade and extent thereof shall have been sub-
mitted to and approved by the Commission; provided, how-
ever, that in case of disapproval, the Commission shall
communicate its reasons to the state, federal, county, mun-
icipal or district board, body or official proposing to locate,
construct or authorize such public way, ground, building,
structure or utility, and thereupon such board, body or official
may in its discretion overrule such disapproval and proceed.
The widening, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation,
abandonment, change of use of any road, park or other pub-
lic way or ground in the District, or the acquisition or sale of
any land in the District by any public board, body or official
shall be subject to similar submission and approval, and the
failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The failure
of the Commission to act within sixty (60) days from and
after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed an
approval, unless a longer period be granted by the submitting
board, body or official.

In the event that previous to the time of the taking effect
of this Act the Commission shall have made and adopted a
major road plan of that portion of the District which lies
within the Maryland-Washington Metropolitan District, then
the provisions of this section shall apply to said portion of
the District without awaiting the extension of such plan to
the remainder of the District; and when such plan be extended
to said remainder, so that the major road plan of the whole
District is made and adopted, then the provisions of this
Section shall apply to the whole District.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That no plat of any sub-
division of land within the District shall be admitted to the
Land Records of either Montgomery or Prince Georges County,
or received or recorded by the clerks of the courts of said
counties, until the said plat shall have been submitted to and
approved by the Commission and such approval be indorsed
in writing on the plat by its chairman and secretary. The fil-
ing' or recording of a plat of a subdivision without the ap-
proval of the Commission shall be void.

On the basis of the estimated cost of the services to be
rendered by it in connection with the consideration of sub-
division plats and the work incident thereto, the Commission
may fix the scale of fees to be paid to it for its subdivision
work and may from time to time amend such scale. In the
case of each subdivision plat submitted to the Commission,
the fee thus fixed shall be paid before said plat is approved
or disapproved and carried into the administrative fund of
the Commission provided for in Section 29 of this Act.