1756 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 992

plicant shall be deemed a waiver of such hearing and notice.
The Commission is empowered to include in its subdivision
regulations provisions for notice to owners of properties that
would be substantially affected by approval of any subdivision
plat and for public hearings on such applications.

K. Whoever being the owner or agent of the owner of
any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells any
land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat
of a subdivision, before such plat has been approved by the
Commission and recorded or filed in the office of the Clerk of
the Circuit Court of the county in which the property is lo~
cated, shall forfeit and pay to the District Council a penalty
of $100 for each lot or parcel so transferred or 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
District Council may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement
by action for injunction brought in any court of equity juris-
diction or may recover the said penalty by a civil action in any
court of competent jurisdiction.

L. No clerk of the Circuit Court of Montgomery or Prince
George's County shall receive for filing or recording or record
any plat of a subdivision of land within the District unless such
plat has endorsed thereon in writing the approval of the Com-
mission. In the event any such plat not so approved is re-
corded after the passage of this Act such plat is invalid and
the Commission shall have the right to institute proceedings
against the Clerk to compel the plat to be stricken from the
land records of the county, and for such purpose any court
of competent jurisdiction is hereby granted jurisdiction to
issue appropriate orders.

M. The Commission is hereby given authority to establish
grades for all roads within the District. Until such grade is
established by the Commission, no grading of a permanent
nature shall be made, and any such unauthorized grading by
any state, municipal or county officer or employee or any
private person is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor and
punishable as provided in Section 2AA of this Act.

N. The council of a municipality within the District or the
County Commissioners of Montgomery or Prince George's
County, or any other state, county, district, municipal or local
board or body or officer authorized by law to accept, construct,
establish, lay out, open, improve, grade, regrade, pave, curb
or light or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or other
utilities in any road in the District shall not accept, construct,