1578                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 588

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,
deed of trust, or an option to purchase such property; provided, how-
ever, that the aforegoing time limitation and name requirement
shall not apply to applications filed by the district council or by the
commission.]

(a)    Designation of District Councils; Bi-county District Council.
The County Councils of Montgomery County and the Board of
County Commissioners of Prince George's County are each individ-
ually designated, for the purposes of this article, as the District Coun-
cil for that portion of the Regional District lying within each county,
respectively. Sitting together, they are jointly designated, for the
special purposes delineated in this article, as the Bi-county District
Council for the entire Maryland-Washington Regional District. The
adoption of an ordinance or resolution by the Bi-county District
Council shall be accomplished only by the affirmative votes of a
majority of the total membership of each District Council.

(b)    Grant of Zoning Power. Each District Council is respective-
ly empowered, in accordance with the conditions and procedures
specified in this subtitle of the article ARTICLE OF THIS CHAP-
TER to regulate, by ordinance, in the portion of the Regional
District lying within its county, (1) the location, height, bulk,
and size of buildings, other structures, and units therein, build-
ing 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 distribu-
tion of population; (5) the location and uses of buildings and
structures and units therein for trade, industry, residence, recrea-
tion, agriculture, public activities, and other purposes; and (6) the
uses of land, including surface, subsurface, and air rights there-
in, 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 for Mont-
gomery 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 amend-
ment, filed after June 1, 1965, for the same zoning classification
upon which there was a decision on the merits unless thirty-six (36)
months has expired since the filing of the application for the previous
zoning map amendment upon which there was a decision on the
merits; 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 Council, 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, deed DEEDS
of trust, liens and encumbrances, and shall also set forth the names of