WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1391

bers of the Commission other than the Vice-chairman and
Park Commissioner and to provide a travel allowance for
the Chairman of the Commission.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 2-1 of the Maryland-Washington Regional
District Act, enacted by Chapter 992 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland passed at its January Session
in the year 1943, as said section was repealed and re-enacted
by Chapter 761 of the Acts of the General Assembly passed in
it January Session in the year 1947, and as said section ap-
pears for convenience of reference as Section 732 of Article
16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1947 Edi-
tion), title "Montgomery County", sub-title "Maryland-Wash-
ington Regional District", and as Section 978 of Article 17
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1943 Edition),
title "Prince George's County", sub-title "Maryland-Washing-
ton Regional District", be and the same is hereby further re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

2-1. In exercising the powers granted to it by Section 2H of
this Act, the Commission shall adopt and may from time to
time amend regulations governing the sub-division of land
within the District or the respective portions of the District
within Montgomery or Prince George's County. Such regula-
tions may provide for the harmonious development of the Dis-
trict; for the coordination of roads within the sub-division
with other existing, planned or platted roads or with other
features of the District or with the Commission's general
plan or with any road plat adopted or approved by the Com-
mission; for adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light
and air; for the reservation of lands for schools and other
public buildings and for parks, playgrounds, and other public
purposes, provided no reservation of land for traffic, recrea-
tion, or for any other public purpose as herein provided shall
continue for longer than three years unless the public author-
ity charged with making provision for traffic, recreation,
school or other public facilities shall have acquired the same
or shall have instituted proceedings to acquire the same
within such period and provided further that such property
so reserved for public use as hereinbefore provided shall be
exempt from all State, County and local taxes during such
period; for the conservation of or production of adequate
transportation, water, drainage and sanitary facilities; for
the preservation of the location of, the volume and flow of
water in and other characteristics of natural streams and
other waterways; for the avoidance of population congestion;
and for the avoidance of such scattered or premature sub-
division of land as would involve danger or injury to health,