1496 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 714

water mains or sewers or other utilities in any road in the
District shall not accept, construct, establish, lay out, open,
improve, grade, regrade, pave, curb or light any road within
the District or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or
other utilities or connections to be laid in any road within
the District unless such road (a) shall have been accepted
or opened as or shall otherwise have received the legal status
of a public road prior to the taking effect of this Act or (b)
exactly corresponds in its location with a road shown on a
major road plan heretofore or hereafter made and adopted
by the Commission or with a road on a subdivision plat here-
tofore or hereafter approved by the Commission or with a
road on a road plat heretofore or hereafter made by and
adopted by the Commission. Any such municipal council,
board of county commissioners or other State, county, dis-
trict or local board or officer authorized by law to accept or
construct roads may, however, construct or accept a road not
shown on or corresponding with such approved plan or plats,
provided the ordinance or other measure accepting or pro-
viding for the acceptance or construction of such road be first
submitted to the Commission for its approval and, if disap-
proved by the Commission, be enacted or passed by not less
than a majority of the entire membership of such council or
board. A road approved by the Commission upon such sub-
mission to it shall thereupon have the status of an approved
road as fully as though it had been shown on a plat or plan
originally made by the Commission or on a subdivision plat
approved by the Commission.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That no permit for the
erection of any building within a subdivision within the Dis-
trict shall be issued unless the road giving access to the lot
upon which said building is proposed to be located shall have
received the legal status of a public road or shall have been
dedicated to public use at the time of the taking effect of this
Act or corresponds in its exact location with the road shown
on a subdivision plat approved by the Commission, or with
a road plan or plat and adopted by the Commission; or is on
a private right of way or easement approved as adequate by
the Commission.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the Board of County
Commissioners of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties
is each hereby empowered, in accordance with the conditions
and procedure specified in Sections 17 to 25₇ inclusive, of
this Act, to regulate, in the portion of the District lying
within its county, the location, height, bulk and size of build-
ings and other structures, building lines, minimum frontages,
depths and areas of lots and percentages of lots which may