1254                            Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 780

mit recommendations to its county governing body, provided that
the responsibility for preparing said capital budgets and programs
of public works shall be vested in the county government and its
administrative, fiscal, and planning staffs and not in the staff of the
Commission and the County Planning Board. The county planning
boards shall meet from time to time with their respective county
governing bodies and shall perform such surveys, studies, and other
planning duties as the governing bodies may assign to them.

(b)  Regional functions; procedure for Commission.—The regional
functions within the jurisdiction of the Commission shall include,
but shall not be limited to, preparation, adoption, and amendment
of the general plan for the physical development of the District, or
parts thereof, in accordance with Section 63 of this sub-title; PRO-
VIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN SO FAR AS SHALL PERTAIN
TO THE LOCATION, ARRANGEMENT, CHARACTER AND EX-
TENT OF ROADS UNDER THE SAID SECTION SUCH
REGIONAL FUNCTIONS SHALL INCLUDE PLANNING ONLY
FOR SUCH ROADS AS ARE EITHER ARTERIAL OR OTHER
THROUGH ROADS EXTENDING FROM ONE OF THE SAID
COUNTIES IN THE REGIONAL DISTRICT INTO THE OTHER;
and mandatory referrals from the United States or the State of Mary-
land, or any agency thereof, pursuant to Section 67 of this sub-
title. The Commission and the county planning boards, or either
of them, are authorized to recommend to the proper authorities
text amendments to the zoning ordinances, sub-division regulations,
and any other rules and regulations authorized in this sub-title.
The adoption of a resolution or recommendation respecting a re-
gional matter shall be 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. Within its jurisdiction, each
county planning board shall have and exercise the powers in regard
to planning, zoning, sub-division control, platting, the assignment
of street names and house numbers, and related matters, heretofore
exercised by the Commission under this sub-title.

(c)  Jurisdiction of Planning Boards.—Each planning board shall
have administrative control and jurisdiction over personnel perform-
ing the duties and functions assigned in this section to the respec-
tive planning boards.

(d)  Parks and park lands excepted.—Nothing in this section shall
be deemed to affect powers and duties of the Commission with re-
spect to parks and park lands.

(e)   Expenses of local planning boards.—The expenses of op-
eration of the respective local planning boards shall be paid from
the proceeds of the administrative tax collected for the Commission
and from such funds as may be appropriated, in addition thereto,
by the respective county governing bodies.

(f)  Allocation of other functions.—Functions not specifically al-
located in this section shall be assigned by resolution of the Com-
mission with the approval of the respective county governing bodies
either to the Commission itself or to one or both of the county plan-