THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 9

remedies, may institute any appropriate action or proceed-
ings to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, recon-
struction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance, or
use, to restrain, correct, or abate such violation, to prevent
the occupancy of said building, structure, or land, or to
prevent any illegal act, conduct, business, or use in or about
such premises.

227I. Wherever the regulations made under authority of
this Act require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or
other open spaces, or require a lower height of building or
less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of
lot to be left unoccupied, or impose higher standards than
are required in any other statute or local ordinance or
regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under au-
thority of this Act shall govern. Wherever the provisions
of any other statute or local ordinance or regulation re-
quire a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open
spaces, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left un-
occupied, or impose other higher standards than are re-
quired by the regulations made under authority of this Act,
the provisions of such statute or local ordinance or regula-
tion shall govern.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is here-
by declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
being passed upon a yea, and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 3, 1953.

CHAPTER 2
(House Bill 342)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 81 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Revenue
and Taxes", said new section to be known as Section

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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.