MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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the District Council from a decision approving or
disapproving a subdivision plat.

[73.] 7-118.

If the owner or agent of the owner of any land
located within a subdivision, transfers or sells any land
by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a
plat of a subdivision, before [such] THE plat has been
approved by the Commission and recorded or filed in the
office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of the County in
which the property is located, he shall forfeit and pay
to the District Council a penalty of [one hundred dollars
($100)] $100 for each lot or parcel so transferred or
sold. The description of the lot or parcel by metes and
bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document
used in the process of selling or transferring [shall]
DOES not exempt the transaction from [such] THESE
penalties or from the remedies herein provided. The
District Council may enjoin [such] THE transfer or sale
or agreement by action for injunction brought in any
court of equity jurisdiction or may recover the penalty
by a civil action in any court or competent jurisdiction.

[74.] 7-119.

No clerk of the Circuit Court of Montgomery or
Prince George's County [shall] MAY receive for filing or
recording or record any plat of a subdivision of land
within the Regional District unless the plat has endorsed
thereon in writing the approval of the Commission. [In
the event any such] IF A plat not so approved is recorded
after May 24, 1939, the plat is invalid, and the
Commission [has the right to] MAY institute proceedings
against the clerk to compel the plat to be stricken from
the land records of the county[; and for such]. FOR THIS
purpose any court of competent jurisdiction has
jurisdiction to issue appropriate orders.

TITLE 8
DISTRICT COUNCILS

[75.] 8-101.

(a) The county councils of Montgomery County and
Prince George's County are each individually designated,
for the purposes of this article, as the district council
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