LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 857

7-109.

In the preparation and making of the plan and in the
exercise of the zoning, planning, subdivision control,
and other powers granted to it in this title, the
Commission may act in conjunction and cooperation with
the National Capital Planning Commission, created by act
of Congress approved April 30, 1926, as amended. The
Commission is designated as the representative of the
State of Maryland, and for these purposes the Commission
may enter into commitments and agreements with the
National Capital Planning Commission as may in the
discretion of the Commission seem necessary. The
Commission further may act in conjunction and cooperation
with other representatives or officers of the United
States government or of the District of Columbia or of
the [States] STATE of Maryland, including the Maryland
State Planning Commission and the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, or of the State of Virginia or of
Montgomery or Prince George's counties or of any
district, municipality, or other local or district
subdivision within these counties or within these states.

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 the plat has been approved
by the Commission and recorded or filed in the office of
the cleric 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 $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 does not exempt the transaction from these
penalties or from the remedies herein provided. The
district council may enjoin 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] OF competent jurisdiction.

8-104.

(a) After duly advertised public hearing each
district council from time to time may amend its
regulations or any regulation, including the maps or any
map, in accordance with procedures established in the
respective zoning ordinances. The procedures and
ordinances may include, but not be limited to: (1)
procedures limiting the times during which amendments may
be adopted; (2) provisions for hearings and preliminary
determinations by an examiner, board or other agency; (3)
procedures for quorums, number of votes required to enact
amendments and variations or increases therein based upon
such factors as master plans, recommendations of the
hearing examiner, planning board, municipality, or other

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