J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               517

County", to immediately precede Section 322A, as added by Chap-
ter 17 of 1953, Section 322 thereof having been repealed by Chap-
ter 929 of 1945, to be under the new sub-title "Plats", relating
generally to plats for sub-divided lands and building lots in Queen
Anne's County, requiring building permits and providing penalties
for violations.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 322 be and the same is hereby added to Article 18
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
""Queen Anne's County", to immediately precede Section 322A, as
added by Chapter 17 of 1953, Section 322 thereof having been re-
pealed by Chapter 929 of 1945, to be under the new sub-title "Plats",
and to read as follows:

"Plats"

322. (a) Whenever it is contemplated to divide a tract or parcel
of land for the purpose of selling the same as subdivisions and/or
building lots, it shall be necessary before any sales are made thereof
or thereunder, to have an accurate survey of the said tract or parcel
of land prepared by a competent REGISTERED surveyor, clearly
showing thereon each lot or subdivision to be offered for sale. After

said survey is made and before said plat is completed all corners of

squares, intersecting streets, and subdivisions must be clearly marked
on the ground by substantial and permanent markers or corner

stones, and such markers must be designated on said plat, and so

placed in the ground as to make possible the definite and easy loca-

tion of any lot sold therein. , AND THE LOCATION AND COOR-

DINATE DESIGNATION OF ALL PERMANENT MARKERS AS
HEREINAFTER SPECIFIED; PERMANENT MARKERS TO BE
PLACED ON TANGENTS EVERY 500 FEET OR AS CLOSELY
THERETO AS PLACING SAID PERMANENT MARKERS ON A
LOT CORNER WILL ALLOW, AT ALL POINT OF CURVES AND
POINT OF TANGENTS, AT ALL PROPERTY OUTLINE COR-
NERS, AND AT THE TERMINATION OF ANY ROAD OR
STREET WHEN SAID TERMINATION IS ON AN ADJOINING
PROPERTY LINE. After said plat is prepared as above set forth,
it shall be submitted to the County Commissioners of Queen Anne's
County for their approval, and before said Commissioners approve
said plat, they must be satisfied as to the correctness thereof, and
also ascertain if proper permanent markers have been placed as
provided herein. After the approval of the said subdivision and the
said plat by the County Commissioners, and not until then, the same
must be A COPY OF THE SAME MUST BE FILED IN THE
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND A SECOND
COPY filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's
County, together with the necessary fees and charges for the record-
ing and indexing thereof, whereupon the Clerk shall record said plat
on the Plat Book in the Record Office of said Clerk; and no sale shall
be made of any part of said land so subdivided until all the afore-
going provisions AND APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE GEN-
ERAL LAWS have been complied with.

(b) The Clerk of the County Commissioners shall not make any
transfers upon the assessment books of any land transferred as a
result of any subdivision herein referred to and the Clerk of the