LAWS OF MARYLAND OF 1953

MARYLAND, Sct.:

At a Session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun
and held in the City of Annapolis on the Seventh
day of January, 1953, and ending on the Sixth
day of April, 1953, the Honorable Theodore R.
McKeldin, being Governor of the State, the follow-
ing Laws were enacted, to wit:

CHAPTER 1
(House Bill 56)

AN ACT to add nine new sections to Article 24 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Worcester County", sub-title "Pocomoke City", said new
sections to be known as Sections 227A to 227-I thereof
and to follow immediately after Section 227, to authorize
and empower the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City,
under the police power of the State of Maryland, and for
the purpose of promoting the health, security, morals and
general welfare of the City of Pocomoke City and the
inhabitants thereof and visitors therein, to provide for
the establishment by the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke
City of districts or zones in said city within which may
be regulated by ordinance the height, number of stories,
size of buildings and other structures, the percentages
of lot that may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and
other open spaces, the density of population, the location
and use of buildings, structures and land for trade, in-
dustry, residence or other purposes; to provide for a
commission which shall recommend the boundaries of
the various districts and appropriate regulations to be
endorsed therein; to provide for amendment, supplement,
change or repeal; to provide a Board of Zoning Appeals

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill