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ning boards, as the occasion may arise, in such a manner as to ef-
fectuate the concept that planning functions which are essentially
local or intra-county should be performed by the county planning
boards.

67.    Adoption of Master Plan of Highways.

(a) Effect.—When the Commission shall have adopted a master
plan of highways of the Regional District and shall have certified
the plan to the County Council and Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Montgomery County and to the Board of County Commissioners and
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Prince George's County, thereafter
no road, park, or other public way or ground, no public (including
Federal) buildings or structures, and no public utility, whether
publicly or privately owned, shall be located, constructed, or auth-
orized in the Regional District until and unless the proposed location,
character, grade, and extent thereof shall have been submitted to
and approved by the Commission. In case of disapproval, the Com-
mission shall communicate its reasons to the State, Federal, county,
municipal, or district board, body, or official proposing to locate,
construct, or authorize such public way, ground, building, structure,
or utility. Thereupon such board, body, or official may in its dis-
cretion overrule the disapproval and proceed. The widening, ex-
tension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of
use of any road, park, or other public way or ground in the Region-
al District, or the acquisition or sale of any land in the Regional
District by any public board, body, or official shall be subject to
similar submission and approval; and the failure to approve may
be similarly overruled. The failure of the Commission to act with-
in sixty (60) days from and after the date of official submission to
it shall be deemed an approval, unless a longer period be granted
by the submitting board, body, or official.

68.    Authority to Establish Grades For Roads.

The Commission has authority to establish grades for all roads
within the Regional District. Until a grade is established by the
Commission, no grading of a permanent nature shall be made. Any
unauthorized grading by any State, municipal, or county officer or
employee or by any private person is declared to be a misdemeanor
and punishable as such under the general penalty provisions in
this Article.

69.    Water Mains, Sewers, or Other Utilities in any Road in the
Regional District.

The Council of a municipality within the Regional District, the
County Council of Montgomery County, the County Commissioners
of Prince George's County, or any other State, county, district, mu-
nicipal, or local board or body or officer authorized by law to accept,
construct, establish, lay out, open, improve, grade, regrade, pave,
curb, or light, or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or other
utilities in any road in the Regional District shall not accept, con-
struct, establish, lay out, open, improve, grade, regrade, pave, curb,
or light any road within the Regional District or lay or authorize
water mains or sewers or other utilities or connections to be laid