1014 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 808

other higher standards than are required in any other statute
or local ordinance or regulations, the provisions of the regu-
lations made under authority of this sub-title shall govern.
Wherever the provisions of any other statute or local ordi-
nance or regulation require a greater width or size of yards,
courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height of
building or a less number of stores, or require a greater
percentage of a lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other
higher standards than are required by the regulations made
under authority of this sub-title, the provisions of such statute
or local ordinance or regulation shall govern; provided, how-
ever, that within the limits of the Maryland-Washington
Metropolitan District in Montgomery and Prince George's
Counties—in which District there is now in effect city and
regional planning and zoning, which are being administered
by existing agencies under existing law—this sub-title shall
be construed wherever possible as supplemental to Chapter
448 of the Laws of Maryland of 1927, as amended; and within
the said District the several additional and supplemental
powers or any of them vested by this sub-title in the "munici-
pality", and/or the "council", shall be construed to be vested
exclusively in and may be exercised within their discretion
only by the respective Boards of County Commissioners acting
as the District Council, as provided in the said Chapter 448,
as amended; and with the said District in like manner the
several additional and supplemental powers or any of them
vested by this sub-title in the "Commission" and in the "Board
of Appeals", respectively, shall be construed to be vested
exclusively in and may be exercised only, within their discre-
tion, by the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and/or the respective Board of Zoning Appeals
of the County affected; and provided further, that in so far
as the provisions of this sub-title may be inconsistent with or
contrary to the provisions of Chapter 448 of the Laws of
Maryland of 1927, as amended, such provisions shall have no
application within the Maryland-Washington Metropolitan
District, but nothing contained herein shall be deemed or con-
strued to affect the validity of the said Chapter 448, as
amended; and provided further, that nothing in this sub-title
shall apply to Baltimore City, Kent County, Queen Anne's
County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Caroline Coun-
ty, Prince George's County, Howard County, Anne Arundel
County and Harford County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
take effect June 1st, 1945.

Approved April 27, 1945.