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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 892

purpose of preserving and enhancing the scenic beauty of
Rock Creek, the Commission[, shall] MAY not construct
without the approval of the majority of the members of
the Montgomery County Council any new parkway, boulevard,
street, or road adjacent to Rock Creek within 1500 feet
from the banks of the creek[; however]. HOWEVER, nothing
in this section prohibits the construction of any bridge,
parkway, boulevard, street, or road necessary to cross
the creek.

[27.] 5-102.

For the purpose of financing or assisting in the
financing of the acquisition of land or other property
for parks, parkways, forests, streets, roads, boulevards,
or other public ways, grounds, or spaces within the
Metropolitan District, or for the purposes of public
recreation, or for [the] ITS improvement or development
[of the same], the Commission may receive and expend any
contributions, donations, or appropriations which may be
made for [such] THESE purposes or any of them, by the
United States, for by] the District of Columbia, [or by]
the State of Maryland, [or by] any other political
community, or [by] any private person.

[28.] 5-103.

Title to the lands acquired under subsection 1(a) of
[said] Public [Act] LAW No. 284, 71st Congress, as
amended, shall vest in the United States, as provided in
that Act. The title to any other land or property
acquired shall not be placed in or granted to the United
States or in or to any person, corporation, or political
community other than the Metropolitan District itself or
the State of Maryland, without the approval of the
General Assembly of Maryland[; nor shall the]. THE
control, maintenance, operation, or policing of any such
other park, parkways, forest, street, road, boulevard, or
other public way, ground, or space within the
Metropolitan District MAY NOT be placed in or surrendered
to the United States or to any other person, corporation,
or political community, other than the Commission itself,
without the approval of the General Assembly of Maryland.

[29.] 5-104.

The Commission [is authorized to] MAY acquire lands
for the purposes described in [Section] SECTIONS [43]
5-118, [44] 6-101 and [45] 6-102 of this [subtitle]
ARTICLE outside the Metropolitan District in Montgomery
County and in Prince George's County, but within the
Maryland — Washington Regional District in those
counties, if the Commission finds within the exercise of
its discretion that [such] THE acquisitions are necessary