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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 892

owned, shall be located, constructed, or authorized in
the Regional District until and unless the proposed
location, character, grade, and extent thereof [shall
have] HAS been submitted to and approved by the
Commission. In case of disapproval, the Commission shall
communicate its reasons to the state, federal, county,
municipal, or district board, body, or official proposing
to locate, construct, or authorize such public way,
ground, building, structure, or utility. Thereupon
[such] THE board, body, or official [may] in its
discretion MAY overrule the disapproval and proceed. The
widening, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation,
abandonment, change of use of any road, park, or other
public way or ground in the Regional District, or the
acquisition or sale of any land in the Regional District
by any public board, body, or official shall be subject
to similar submission and approval; and the failure to
approve may be similarly overruled. The failure of the
Commission to act within [sixty (60)] 60 days from and
after the date of official submission to it shall be
deemed an approval, unless a longer period be granted by
the submitting board, body, or official.

[68.] 7-113.

The Commission [has authority to] MAY establish
grades for all roads within the Regional District,
[provided, however,] BUT in Montgomery County all road
grades [sol established shall be established within the
tolerances set forth in the provisions of the Montgomery
County Road Code. Until a grade has been established by
the Commission, no grading of a permanent nature shall be
made. Any unauthorized grading of a permanent nature by
any state, municipal or county officer or employee or by
any private person is declared to be a misdemeanor and
punishable as such under the provisions of this
[subtitle] ARTICLE.

[69.] 7-114.

[The council of a municipality within the Regional
District, the County Council of Montgomery County, the
County Commissioners of Prince George's County, or any
other] ANY state, county, district, municipal, or local
board or body or officer authorized by law to accept,
construct, establish, lay out, open, improve, grade,
regrade, pave, curb, or light, or lay or authorize water
mains or sewers or other utilities in any road in the
Regional District [shall] MAY not accept, construct,
establish, lay out, open, improve, grade, regrade, pave,
curb, or light any road within the Regional District or
lay or authorize water mains or sewers or other utilities
or connections to be laid in any road within the Regional