WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 701

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1986 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 28 - Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning

Commission
Section 8-112.2
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1986 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

Article 23A - Corporations - Municipal

2.

(a) The legislative body of every incorporated municipality
in this State, except Baltimore City, by whatever name known,
shall have general power to pass such ordinances not contrary to
the Constitution of Maryland, public general law, or, except as
provided in Section 2B of this article, public local law as they
may deem necessary in order to assure the good government of the
municipality, to protect and preserve the municipality's rights,
property, and privileges, to preserve peace and good order, to
secure persons and property from danger and destruction, and to
protect the health, comfort and convenience of the citizens of
the municipality; but nothing in this article shall be construed
to authorize the legislative body of any incorporated
municipality to pass any ordinance which is inconsistent or in
conflict with any ordinance, rule or regulation passed, ordained
or adopted by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, and
nothing in this article shall be taken or construed to affect,
change, modify, limit or restrict in any manner any of the
corporate powers of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore which
it now has or which hereafter may be granted to it.

Article 28 - Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning

Commission

8-112.

(a) (1) [Within] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF
THIS SUBSECTION, WITHIN the regional district, the zoning powers
[of any of them] vested by Article 66B of the [Annotated] Code
[of Maryland] in any municipality or council of any municipality
within the regional district shall be construed to be vested
exclusively in and may be exercised within their discretion only
by the County Council of Montgomery County or the County

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