HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR, 1753

G. From and after the time when the Commission shall have
progressed in its planning to the stage of the making and
adoption of a major road plan of the District and shall have
certified such major road plan to the Boards of County Com-
missioners and Clerks of the Circuit Courts respectively of
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, then and thence-
forth no road, park or other public way or ground, no public
(including federal) buildings or structures, and no public
utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be located,
constructed or authorized in the District until and unless the
proposed location, character, grade and extent thereof shall
have been submitted to and approved by the Commission;
provided, however, that in case of disapproval, the Commis-
sion shall communicate its reasons to the state, federal, county,
municipal 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 of-
ficial may in its discretion overrule such disapproval and
proceed. The widening, extension, relocation, narrowing, vaca-
tion, abandonment, change of use of any road, park or other
public 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 ap-
proval, 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 pro-
visions of this section shall apply to said portion of the Dis-
trict without awaiting the extension of such plan to the re-
mainder of the District; and when such plan be extended to
said remainder, so that the major road plan of the whole Dis-
trict is made and adopted, then the provisions of this section
shall apply to the whole District.

H. No plat of any subdivision of land within the District
shall be admitted to the Land Records of either Montgomery
or Prince George's 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 chair-
man and secretary. The filing or recording of a plat of a sub-
division without the approval of the Commission shall be void.

On the basis of the estimated cost of the services to be ren-
dered by it in connection with the consideration of sub-