1252                            Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 780

quisitions, financial transactions, personnel, litigation and disposition
of violations, and other data and information. The Commission is
authorized to charge a fee for such publication sufficient to cover
in whole or in part the cost thereof.

63.    General Plan for Regional District.

(a)  Authorized; extent.—The Commission is authorized and em-
powered to make and adopt and, from time to time, amend, extend,
or add to, a general plan for the physical development of the Dis-
trict. The plan, including maps, plats, charts, and descriptive mat-
ter, shall show the Commission's recommendations for the develop-
ment of the District, which may include, among other things, such
matters as (1) the location, arrangement, character, and extent of
roads, waterways, waterfronts, beaches, docks and wharves, parks,
forests, squares, aviation fields, airways, subways, wildlife refuges,
open development areas, and other ways, grounds, and open spaces;
(2) the general location of public, including Federal, buildings and
other public properties; (3) the general location and extent of pub-
lic utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned or
operated, for light, transportation, communication, power, and other
purposes; (4) the preservation and development of forests and nat-
ural scenery; (5) the general location and extent of housing and
community projects and developments; and (6) a zoning plan for
the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location, and uses of build-
ings and the uses of land, and other factors of urban, suburban,
rural, and regional planning.

(b)  Adoption; procedure.—As the work of making the general
plan progresses, the Commission, from time to time, may adopt a
part or parts thereof, any such part to cover one or more sections
of the Regional District or one or more of the aforesaid or other
functional subjects-matter to be included in the plan. Before adopt-
ing the plan or any part thereof or any extension or amendment
thereof or addition thereto, the Commission shall hold at least one
public hearing thereon, thirty (30) days' notice of the time and
place of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper
or newspapers of general circulation in the Regional District. The
adoption of the plan or any part thereof or amendment, or exten-
sion or addition thereto shall be by resolution of the Commission
carried, by the affirmative votes of not less than six members of the
Commission of whom not less than three members shall be from
Montgomery County and not less than three members from
Prince George's County. The resolution shall refer expressly to
the maps and descriptive and other matter intended by the Commis-
sion to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action taken
shall be recorded on the map, plan, or descriptive matter by the
identifying signature of the Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer of
the Commission. An attested copy of the plan or any part thereof
or any amendment or extension or addition thereto shall be certified
by the Commission to and filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of each of Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

64.    Commission to Cooperate with Other Governmental Agencies.

In the preparation and making of the plan and in the exercise of
the zoning, planning, sub-division control, and other powers granted