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230-J. (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 water mains, piping,
or other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to the
approval of the plat. The regulations or practice of the Planning
Commission may provide for a tentative approval of the plat previous
to such installation; but any such tentative approval shall be re-
vocable and shall not be entered on the plat. In lieu of the completion
of such improvements and utilities prior to the final approval of the
plat, the Planning Commission [may accept] shall require the appli-
cant to deliver to te THE County Commissioners, or the Howard Coun-
ty Metropolitan Commission as the case may be, and as hereinafter set
forth, a certified check or a bond with corporate surety to secure to
the County, or the Howard County Metropolitan Commission, as
the case may be, the actual construction and installation costs of
such improvements or utilities at a time and according to specifica-
tions fixed by or in accordance with regulations of the Planning
Commission [.]; and in the event water mains and appurtenances
or sewerage facilities are to be installed in any sub-division said
installation shall be subject to the provisions herein and also subject
to all rules and regulations of the Howard County Metropolitan Com-
mission. The County or the Howard County Metropolitan Commis-
sion, as the case may be, is hereby granted the power to enforce such
bond by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved March 29,1955.

CHAPTER 164
(House Bill 507)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 715 (a) of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County (1953
Edition), being Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Prince George's County", sub-title "Glenarden",
placing a maximum limit on the rate at which property taxes may
be imposed by the Mayor and Common Council of Glenarden, a
municipal corporation in Prince George's County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 715 (a) of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County (1953 Edition), being Article 17 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Prince George's County",
sub-title "Glenarden", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

715. (a) The Mayor and Common Council shall have power to
levy, on or before the first Monday of June in each year, the tax year
commencing on the first day of July, a tax not to exceed [twenty-
five] fifty cents per one hundred dollars ($100.00) assessed value

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