J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               649

such installation; but any such tentative approval shall be revocable
and shall not be entered on the plat. In lieu of the completion of
such improvements [and utilities], except where water mains and
appurtenances or sewerage facilities are to be installed prior to the
final approval of the plat, the Planning Commission shall require the
applicant to deliver to the County Commissioners [, or the Howard
County Metropolitan Commission, as the case may be, and as here-
inafter set forth,] a certified check or a bond with corporate surety
to secure to the County [, or the Howard County Metropolitan Com-
mission, as the case may be,] the actual construction and installation
costs of such improvements [or utilities] at a time, and according
to specifications fixed by, or in accordance with regulations of the
Planning Commission; and in the event water mains and appurte-
nances or sewerage facilities are to be installed in any subdivision,
the same shall not be finally approved by the Planning Commission
until the applicant shall have delivered unto the Howard County
Metropolitan Commission, a certified check to cover the total cost
of the installation, construction, engineering and supervision thereof,
all of which shall be in accordance with Section 141 of said Article 14.
Said installation shall be subject to the provisions herein and also
subject to all rules and regulations of the Howard County Metro-
politan Commission. The County [or the Howard County Metro-
politan Commission, as the case may be] is hereby granted the power
to enforce such bond by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies.

(c) Before any regulations shall be submitted to the Board of
County Commissioners of Howard County for adoption, a public
hearing shall be held thereon and all such regulations, or, if in the
opinion of the Planning Commission it is best, a brief synopsis of
such regulations, sufficient to inform a person of ordinary intelligence
of the nature and contents of such regulations, together with the time
and place of such public hearing, shall be published once or more,
if the Planning Commission deems best, in a weekly newspaper pub-
lished and in general circulation in Howard County. When such
regulations are adopted by said Board of County Commissioners, a
copy thereof shall be certified by said Commission to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Howard County, for record.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 8, 1959.

CHAPTER 508
(House Bill 836)

AN ACT to add new Section 90A to the Code of Public Local Laws
of Howard County (1957 Edition, being Article 14 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Howard County", sub-

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