THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1217

ment of the County, the proper arrangement of streets and
the control of subdivisions within said County; authorizing
and empowering the County Commissioners of Howard
County to appoint a Planning Commission and to prescribe
its duties and powers; authorizing and empowering the
County Commissioners of Howard County to appoint a Plan-
ning Commissioner and to prescribe his duties and powers;
to provide for appeals to the Circuit Court for Howard
County and to the Court of Appeals of Maryland; to provide
for penalties for the violation of such rules, regulations and
restrictions; and to provide additional means of enforcing
such rules, regulations and restrictions.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sixteen new sections, be and they are hereby added
to Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
1930 Edition), title "Howard County", sub-title "Planning
and Subdivision Control", said new sections to be known as,
Sections 230 to 230-O, inclusive, and to follow immediately
after Section 229 of said Article, and to read as follows:

PLANNING AND SUBDIVISION CONTROL

230. For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals,
and the general welfare; to alleviate traffic congestion; to
facilitate the safe flow of traffic, to provide for light and air;
to promote good civic design and arrangement; a wise and
efficient expenditure of public funds; and adequate use of pub-
lic utilities and other public requirements; and for the general
purpose of guiding and accomplishing a co-ordinated, adjusted
and harmonious development of Howard County, the County
Commissioners of Howard County are hereby authorized and
empowered to appoint a Planning Commission to be known as
the Howard County Planning Commission with the powers and
duties as hereinafter set forth.

230A. The Howard County Planning Commission shall con-
sist of seven FIVE members, of whom three shall be members
of the Board of County Commissioners of Howard County, and
the other four TWO shall be appointed by said Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners. All members of the Commission shall serve
as such without compensation. The term of the ex-officio mem-
bers shall correspond to their official term. The terms of the
other members shall be for a period of five years or until

their duly appointed successors take office, except that the

respective terms of the four members first appointed shall

be two, three, four, and five years, respectively. Appointed
members may, after a public hearing, be by said Board of

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