1220 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 424

and plan descriptive matter by the identifying signatures of
the chairman of the Commission, and the Planning Commis-
sioner. An attested copy of the plan or part thereof shall be
certified to the Board of County Commissioners and to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard County for record.

230G. Whenever the Commission shall have adopted the
master plan of the County or of one or more major sections or
districts thereof, no street, square, park or other public way,
ground, or open space, or public building or structure, or public
utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be con-
structed or authorized in the County, or in such planned sec-
tion and district, until the location, character, and extent there-
of shall have been submitted to and approved by the Commis-
sion; provided, that in case of disapproval the Commission shall
communicate its reason to the County Commissioners, who
shall have the power to overrule such disapproval by a recorded
vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership.

230H. That whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the
Commission to take or acquire any lands, water rights, struc-
tures or buildings either in fee or as an easement for parks,
parkways, forests, roads, streets, boulevards or highways,
grounds or spaces, the Commission may purchase same from the
owner or owners, or, failing to agree with the owner or owners
thereof, may condemn the same by proceedings in the Circuit
Court for Howard County, as now provided for condemnation
of land by public service corporations in Article 33A of the
Public General Laws of Maryland; and said Commission may
at the same time condemn the interest of any tenant, lessee
or other person having an interest in said land, or other prop-
erty. At any time after ten days after the return and recorda-
tion of the verdict or award in said proceeding, the Commission
may enter and take possession of said property so condemned
upon first paying to the Clerk of the Court the amount of said
award and all costs taxed to date, notwithstanding any appeal
or further proceeding on the part of the defendant. At the time
of said payment, however, it shall give its corporate under-
taking to abide by and fulfill any judgment on such appeal or
further proceeding if there be an appeal.

230-I. When the Howard County Planning Commission has
adopted a major street plan for Howard County or part there-
of, and has filed a certified copy of such plan in the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard County, then no plat of
a subdivision of land within said Howard County or part
thereof, shall be filed or recorded until it shall have been ap-
proved by the Howard County Planning Commission, and such