56 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 19

visions of any other statute or local ordinance or regula-
tion require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or
other open spaces, or require a lower height of building
or a less number of stories, or requires a greater percent-
age of a lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher
standards than are required by the regulations made under
authority of this sub-title, the provisions of such statute
or local ordinance or regulation shall govern; provided,
however, that within the limits of the Maryland-Washing-
ton Regional District as said District is now or shall here-
after be defined by law, in Montgomery and Prince George's
Counties—in which District there is now in effect city and
regional planning and zoning, which are being administered
by existing agencies under existing law—this sub-title shall
be construed wherever possible as supplemental to Chapter
992 of the Laws of Maryland of 1943, as amended; and with-
in the said District the several additional and supplemental
powers or any of them vested by this sub-title in the "muni-
cipality", and/or the "council", shall be construed to be
vested exclusively in and may be exercised within their
discretion only by the respective Board of County Com-
missioners acting as the District Council, as provided in
said Chapter 992, as amended; and within the said Dis-
trict in like manner the several additional and supple-
mental powers of any of them vested by this sub-title in
the "Commission" and in the "Board of Appeals", respec-
tively, shall be construed to be vested exclusively in and
may be exercised only, within their discretion, by The
Maryland—National Capital Park and Planning Commis-
sion and/or the respective Board of Zoning Appeals of the
County affected; and provided further, that in so far as the
provisions of this sub-title may be inconsistent with or con-
trary to the provisions of Chapter 992 of the Laws of
Maryland of 1943, as amended; such provisions shall have
no application within the Maryland-Washington Regional
District, but nothing contained herein shall be deemed or
construed to affect the validity of said Chapter 992, as
amended; and provided further, that nothing in this sub-
title shall apply to Baltimore City [, Kent County, Queen
Anne's County, Worcester County and Caroline County, or
to that part of Wicomico County outside of the area that
is within a radius of five miles from the corporate limits
of the City of Salisbury].

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT
THIS ACT IS HEREBY DECLARED TO BE AN EMER-