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Terms Used In Maryland Code, LAND USE 6-104

  • County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
(a) After the public hearing under § 6-103 of this subtitle, the planning commission may transmit the plat, as originally made or as amended by the planning commission, to the legislative body with the planning commission’s estimate of the schedule by which the local jurisdiction should acquire the reserved land.

(b) After receiving the plat from the planning commission, the legislative body, by resolution, may:

(1) approve and adopt the plat;

(2) disapprove the plat;

(3) modify the plat with the approval of the planning commission; or

(4) adopt a modified plat, notwithstanding the prior disapproval of the modification by the planning commission, with a favorable vote of at least two-thirds of the entire membership of the legislative body.

(c) In the resolution adopting the plat, the legislative body shall establish the period for which land is to be reserved under § 6-102 of this subtitle.

(d) After the plat is adopted, the clerk of the legislative body shall:

(1) transmit one attested copy of the plat to the clerk of the circuit court of each county in which the platted land is located; and

(2) keep one copy of the plat for public examination.