HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1757

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 re-
ceived 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 sub-
division plat heretofore or hereafter approved by the Commis-
sion 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,
district 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 provid-
ing for the acceptance or construction of such road be first sub-
mitted to the Commission for its approval and, if disapproved
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 submission 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as though it had been shown on a plat or plan originally made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.

O. No permit for the erection of any building within a sub-
division within the District 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 loca-
tion with the road shown on a subdivision plat approved by
the Commission, or with a road plan or plat adopted by
the Commission; or is on a private right of way or easement
approved as adequate by the Commission.

P. The Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery and
Prince George's Counties is each hereby empowered, in accord-
ance with the conditions and procedure specified in Sections
2Q to 2Y, inclusive, of this Act, to regulate in the portion of
the District lying within its county, the location, height, bulk
and size of buildings and other structures, building lines,
minimum frontages, depths and areas of lots and percentages
of lots which may be occupied, the sizes of yards, courts and
other open spaces, the erection of temporary stands and struc-
tures, the density and distribution of population, the uses of
buildings and structures for trade, industry, residence, recrea-