MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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District unless [such] THE road (1) [shall have] HAS been
accepted or opened as or shall otherwise have received
the legal status of a public road prior to May 24, 1939,
or (2) exactly corresponds in its location with a road
shown on a master plan of highways heretofore or
hereafter made and adopted by the commission or with a
road on a subdivision plat heretofore or hereafter
approved by the Commission or with a road on a road plat
heretofore or hereafter made and adopted by the
Commission. Any [such municipal council. County Council,
County Commissioners or other] state, county, district,
or local board or officer authorized by law to accept or
construct roads, however, may construct or accept a road
not shown on or corresponding with [such] THE approved
plan or plats, provided the ordinance or other measure
accepting or providing for the acceptance or construction
of [such] THE road be first submitted to the Commission
for its approval; and, if disapproved by the Commission,
be enacted or passed by not less than a majority of the
entire membership of [such] THE Council or Board. A road
approved by the Commission upon [such] THIS submission to
it shall thereupon have the status of an approved road as
fully as though it had been shown on a plat or plan
originally made by the Commission or on a subdivision
plat approved by the Commission.

[70.] 7-115.

(a)    Approval of Commission required. No plat of
any subdivision of land within the Regional District
shall be admitted to the land records of either
Montgomery or Prince George's County, or received or
recorded by the clerks of the courts of [said] THESE
counties, until the plat [shall have] HAS been submitted
to and approved by the Commission and [such] THE approval
[be] indorsed in writing on the plat by its chairman and
secretary. The filing or recordation of a plat of a
subdivision without the approval of the Commission is
void.

(b)    Fees for Commission's subdivision work. On
the basis of the estimated cost of the services to be
rendered by it in connection with the consideration of
subdivision plats and the work incidental thereto, the
Commission may fix the scale of fees to be paid to it for
its subdivision work and [may] from time to time MAY
amend [such] THE scale. In the case of each subdivision
plat submitted to the Commission, the fee thus fixed
shall be paid before the plat is approved or disapproved
and carried into the administrative fund of the
Commission provided for in Section [93] 8—115.

(c)    Recordation; clerk's fee. After [such] THE
approval and upon receipt of the plat by the clerk of the