Ch. 450                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

Section 4.05(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

4.02.

(A) For any or all of said purposes the local legislative

body may divide the county or municipal corporation into

districts of such number, shape, and area as may be deemed best
suited to execute the purposes of this article, and within such

districts it may regulate and restrict the erection,

construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair or use of

buildings, structures or land. All such regulations shall be
uniform for each class or kind of development throughout each
district, but the regulations in one district may differ from
those in other districts.

(B) UPON ANNEXATION OF LAND THE LOCAL LEGISLATIVE BODY OF A
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION MAY DIVIDE THE ANNEXED LAND INTO ONE OR
MORE DISTRICTS UNDER THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION'S ZONING SCHEME
AND APPLY THE REGULATIONS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBSECTION (A) TO THOSE

DISTRICTS. THE DIVISION OF ANNEXED LAND INTO 1 OR MORE ZONING

DISTRICTS AND THE APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS TO THOSE DISTRICTS
BY THE LOCAL LEGISLATIVE BODY OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SHALL
BE CONSIDERED AN EXTENSION OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION'S MOST
RECENT DETERMINATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONING DISTRICTS ON A
COMPREHENSIVE BASIS, AND SHALL BE UNDERTAKEN IN THE SAME MANNER
AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAME RULES AND PROCEDURES APPLICABLE
TO COMPREHENSIVE ZONING WITHIN THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.

Article 23A - Corporations - Municipal

9.

(c) (1) A municipal corporation which is subject to the
provisions of Article XI-E of the Maryland Constitution may not
amend its charter or exercise its powers of annexation,
incorporation or repeal of charter as to affect or impair in any
respect the powers relating to sanitation, including sewer, water
and similar facilities, and zoning, of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission or of the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission. Except that where any area is annexed to a
municipality authorized to have and having then a planning and
zoning authority, the municipality shall have exclusive

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