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<section article="glu" article_name="Land Use" number="20-202" title_number="20" title_name="Maryland-Washington Regional District" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="County Planning Boards">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a county planning board:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is responsible for planning, subdivision, and zoning functions that are primarily local in scope; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>shall exercise, within the county planning board’s jurisdiction, the following powers:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>planning;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>zoning;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>subdivision;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>assignment of street names and house numbers; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>any related matter.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The functions under paragraph (1) of this subsection do not include the regional planning functions of the Commission relating to or affecting the regional district as a planning unit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A county planning board has exclusive jurisdiction over:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>local functions, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the administration of subdivision regulations;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the preparation and adoption of recommendations to the district council with respect to zoning map amendments; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the assignment of street names and house numbers in the regional district; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>mandatory referrals made in accordance with Subtitle 3, Part I of this title by the county planning board’s respective county government or any unit of the county government.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Montgomery County Planning Board has exclusive jurisdiction over a mandatory referral made in accordance with Subtitle 3, Part I of this title by the County Board of Education, a municipal corporation or special taxing district, or a publicly owned or privately owned public utility.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Montgomery County Planning Board shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>review the annual capital budgets of the county and future capital budget projections; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>submit recommendations to the county council.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The county government shall have sole responsibility for the preparation of the capital budgets and programs of public works.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Each county planning board shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>meet from time to time with its respective county council; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>perform surveys, studies, and other planning duties the county council assigns to the county planning board.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to the Montgomery County Planning Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>except as provided in paragraph (5) of this subsection, stream live video or live teleconference audio or other audio of the open meetings of the Board;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>maintain on its website a complete and unedited archived recording of each open meeting that is livestreamed in accordance with this subsection; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>notwithstanding § 3–306(b)(2)(i) of the General Provisions Article:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>prepare minutes of each meeting as soon as practicable after the meeting; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>publish and maintain on its website the minutes of each open meeting prepared in accordance with this subsection.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The inability of the Board to comply with paragraph (2)(i) and (ii) of this subsection due to technical failure that entirely prevents or otherwise affects the quality of the live video or audio streaming of a meeting of the Board does not affect the validity of any action taken by the Board during the meeting if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Board otherwise complies with this subsection and the Open Meetings Act; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the inability to comply is not due to willful action by the Board.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>In addition to complying with the minutes requirements of the Open Meetings Act under § 3–306 of the General Provisions Article, if the Board is unable to comply with paragraph (2)(i) of this subsection, the Board shall make good–faith efforts to record an open meeting by video or audio and maintain on its website a complete and unedited archived recording of the meeting.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A project site visit or an educational field tour does not constitute an open meeting under paragraph (2)(i) of this subsection if no organizational business is conducted.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
