366                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 166

CHAPTER 166
(Senate Bill 413)

AN ACT to add a new Section 237 to the Code of Public Local Laws
of Howard County (1965 Edition, being Article 14 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Howard County", subtitle
"Planning and Subdivision Control", to follow immediately after
Section 236 thereof, relating generally to securing a workable
plan of street names and numbering of houses and businesses.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 237 be and it is hereby added to the Code of Public
Local Laws of Howard County (1965 Edition, being Article 14 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Howard County",
subtitle "Planning and Subdivision Control", to follow immediately
after Section 236 thereof, and to read as follows:

237. Street names and house numbers.

(a)  For the purpose of removing confusion because of a duplica-
tion of street names and in order to secure a workable plan of street
names and/or numbering of houses and businesses, the Commission
is authorized to name and re-name any street or highway and to
number and re-number the houses and businesses within the bound-
aries of Howard County. The Commission has the power to correct
mistakes and to change existing names of streets and highways, and
to re-name the streets and highways from time to time and to have
placed proper signs showing or indicating the names of streets and
highways. The Commission also has the power to change existing
numbers of houses and businesses and to change these numbers from
time to time, provided each new number or change of number is
reported to the owner or occupant of the building. The Commission
also is authorized to have placed the new numbers on the building or
premises. The Commission has the power to make reasonable rules
and regulations for carrying out any of the changes in street or high-
way names or numbers of buildings.

(b)   The Commission may adopt a workable plan of street names
and/or numbering of houses and businesses as a whole by a single
resolution or may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts
of the plan, said parts corresponding with major geographical sec-
tions or divisions of the County or with functional subdivisions of
the subject matter of the plan, and may adopt any amendment or
extension thereof or addition thereto. Before the adoption of the plan
or any such part, amendment, extension, or addition the Commission
shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time and
place of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of
general circulation in the County. The adoption of the plan or of
any such part or amendment or extension or addition shall be by
resolution of the Commission carried by the affirmative votes of not
less than three members of the Commission. The resolution shall re-
fer expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter intended
by the Commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the
action taken shall be recorded on the map and plan descriptive matter
by the identifying signatures of the chairman of the Commission,
and the Planning Commissioner. An attested copy of the plan or