1758 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 992

tion, agriculture, public activities or other purposes, and the
uses of land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, agricul-
ture, forestry or other purposes. No regulation shall prohibit
the use of any land by the owner of such land or his tenant for
farming or other agricultural uses exclusively. Each of said
Boards of County Commissioners is hereby designated, for the
purpose of this section and Sections 2Q to 2Y, inclusive, of
this Act as District Council. Not less than three members
of a District Council shall constitute a quorum.

Q. Whenever the Commission makes, adopts, and certifies to
the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery or Prince
George's County a zoning plan of the District, including the
recommendations of the Commission for the regulation by dis-
tricts or zones of the location, height, bulk, and size of build-
ings and other structures, building lines, minimum frontages,
depths and areas of lots, percentages of lots which may be oc-
cupied, sizes of lots, courts and other open spaces, erection of
temporary stands and structures, density and distribution of
population, location and uses of buildings and structures for
trade, industry, residence, recreation, agriculture, public activ-
ities or other purposes, and the uses of land for trade, industry,,
residence, recreation, agriculture, forestry or other purposes,
then said Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery
County or said Board of County Commissioners of Prince
George's County may exercise the powers granted to it in
Section 2P of this Act, and for the purposes of such exer-
cise divide the portion of the District lying within its county
into districts or zones of such number, shape, or area as it may
determine, and within such districts may regulate the erection,
construction, reconstruction, alteration and uses of buildings
and structures and the uses of land or premises. All such
regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of building
throughout any district or zone, but the regulations in one
district or zone may differ from those in any other district
or zone.

Before adopting and certifying its zoning plan, the Commis-
sion shall hold a public hearing thereon, notice of which shall
be published at least fifteen days before the date of the hearing
in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in said
two counties, which notice shall contain the time and place of
the meeting and shall specify the place and times at which the
proposed text and maps may be examined.

E. Any such regulation imposing a lower height limitation,
less percentage of lot occupancy, wider or larger courts, deeper
yards, or other more strict limitations than those provided by
state, county, municipal or other local regulations shall, within
the area for which it is imposed, prevail over the said limita-