THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 347

the said County Commissioners, with county planners,
engineers, architects, and other consultants for such serv-
ices as it may require, subject to the aforesaid approval
of the said Board of County Commissioners, [and set the
compensation therefor. The expenditures of the Commis-
sion, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts appro-
priated for the purpose by said County Commissioners,
which shall provide the funds, equipment, and accommo-
dations necessary for the Commission's work. ]

230-F. The Commission may adopt the plan as a whole
by a single resolution or may by successive resolutions
adopt successive parts of the plan, said parts corresponding
with major geographical sections or divisions of the County
or with functional subdivisions of the subject matter of
the plan, and may adopt any amendment or extension
thereof or addition thereto. Before the adoption of the
plan or any such part, amendment, extension, or addition
the Commission shall hold at least one public hearing
thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be
given by one publication in a newspaper of general circula-
tion in the County. The adoption of the plan or of any
such part or amendment or extension or addition shall be
by resolution of the Commission carried by the affirmative
votes of not less than [four] three members of the Com-
mission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps
and descriptive and other matter intended by the Com-
mission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the
action taken shall be recorded on the map and plan descrip-
tive matter by the identifying signatures of the chairman
of the Commission, and the Planning Commissioner. 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.

230-J. (a) Before exercising the powers referred to in
Sections 230-I, the Howard County Planning Commission
shall prepare regulations governing the subdivision of land
within its jurisdiction. Such regulations may provide for
the proper arrangement of streets, in relation to other
existing planned streets and to the master plan, for ade-
quate and convenient open spaces for traffic, utilities, access
of fire-fighting apparatus, recreation, health, light and air,
and for the avoidance of congestion of population, includ-
ing minimum width and area of lots.

(b) Such regulations may include provision as to the
extent to which streets and other ways shall be graded and
improved and to which water and sewer and other utility