HARRY HUGHES, Governor

775

No municipal corporation within the areas added by this
subsection [(d)] to the Maryland-Washington Metropolitan District
shall be authorized, by means of an amendment to its charter or
otherwise, to exercise any of the powers relating to planning,
subdivision control and/or zoning now or hereafter granted to the
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission or the
County Commissioners of Prince George's County. If this
subsection shall for any reason be held by any court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, it is hereby declared to be the
intention of the General Assembly that this subsection would have
been enacted without the invalid portions.

(g) The boundaries of the metropolitan district are
extended by the addition thereto of the following described
areas, which said areas shall hereafter become integral portions
of the metropolitan district:

[1.] (1) All of the Laurel Election District (No.
10), excepting therefrom, however, the Town of Laurel, including
the area annexed on April 1, 1968, and three areas surrounding
the said town which are described as follows: Area 1. Beginning
for the same at the intersection of United States Route No. 1 and
the southerly limits of the Town of Laurel presently excluded
from the application of this subsection, thence with the
southerly and westerly limits of said town as the same have been
established by laws in effect as of April 1, 1968 to the
intersection of said town limits and the centerline of the
right-of-way selected for construction of proposed Route 1-95,
thence with the centerline of said right-of-way southwesterly to
Contee Road, thence easterly with Contee Road to United States
Route 1 and thence northeasterly to the point of beginning.

Area 2. Beginning for the same at the intersection of the
westerly limits of the Town of Laurel as existed prior to the
said annexation effective April 1, 1968 and the Patuxent River
(county line), thence westerly with the Patuxent River to the
centerline of the right-of-way selected for construction of
proposed Route 1-95, thence with the centerline of said
right-of-way southwesterly to the Town of Laurel limits as
presently exist subsequent to the said April 1, 1968 annexation
being the northern intersection of said limits' and said
centerline of proposed Route 1-95, thence easterly, southerly,
easterly, northeasterly, and northerly with the town limits to
the point of beginning.

Area 3. Beginning for the same at the intersection of the
Patuxent River (county line) and easterly limits of said Town of
Laurel as presently exist subsequent to the annexation effective
April 1, 1968, thence southwesterly and southeasterly with said
town limits to the southernmost corner of the property of I. W.
Berman, Liber 2866, Folio 19; thence North 68° 58' 50" East, 517
feet; thence South 40° 57' 10" East, 2029.50 feet; thence South
09° 41' 10" East, 2158.60 feet to the Patuxent River (county
line), thence northerly along said river to the point of
beginning.