MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                         1571

(b) Grant of Zoning Power. Each District Council is respec-
tively empowered, in accordance with the conditions and proce-
dures specified in this subtitle of this article, to regulate, by ordi-
nance, in the portion of the Regional District lying within its
county, (1) the location, height, bulk, and size of buildings, {and]
other structures, and units therein, building lines, minimum
frontages, depths and areas of lots, and percentages of lots which
may be occupied; (2) the size of lots, yards, courts, and other open
spaces; (3) the erection of temporary stands and structures; (4)
the density and distribution of population; (5) the location and
uses of buildings and structures and units therein for trade, in-
dustry, residence, recreation, agriculture, public activities, and other
purposes; and (6) the uses of land, including surface, subsurface,
and air rights therein, for building, trade, industry, residence,
recreation, agriculture, forestry, or other purposes. [No regulation
shall prohibit the use of any land by the owner of such land or the
holder of any easement or right therein or his tenant for farming,
other agricultural uses exclusively or, within Prince George's
County for the purposes of storing natural or artificial gas at a level
below five hundred (500) feet from the surface of the earth. [The
County Council and the Board of County Commissioners are in-
dividually designated, for the purposes of this subtitle of this article,
as District Council. No less than three members of a District Coun-
cil shall constitute a quorum, except in Montgomery County, not less
than four members of a District Council shall constitute a quorum.
Provided that] [t] The County Council for Montgomery County,
sitting as a District Council, shall not receive an application for a
zoning map amendment upon the same land which has been the
subject of a previous zoning application for map amendment, filed
after June 1, 1965, for the same zoning classification unless thirty-
six (36) months has expired since the filing of the application for
the previous zoning map amendment; and be it further provided
that an application for a zoning map amendment filed with the
County Council for Montgomery County, sitting as a District Coun-
cil, shall set forth the names of all persons having a substantial
interest in the subject property of the application, such substantial
interest to include all those persons with a share in such property
amounting to five percent (5%) or more whether held in an individual
or corporate capacity of the full cash value of such property exclusive
of all mortgages, deeds of trust, liens and encumbrances, and shall
also set forth the names of all contract purchasers and all those
persons holding a mortgage, a deed of trust, or an option to purchase
such property; provided, however, that the aforegoing time limita-
tion and name requirement shall not apply to applications filed by
the District Council or by the Commi