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and Landing Fields within this State, as authorized and provided for
in this Article.

(b) Hazards from the obstruction of air space in the vicinity of
such Airports or Landing Fields;

(c) The relation of the height of buildings and other structures in
the vicinity of such Airports or Landing Fields to such hazards;

(d) The area within which height of buildings and other structures
may dangerously obstruct air space in the vicinity of such public Air-
ports or Landing Fields;

(e) The height of buildings or other structures within such area
which is consistent with the safe use of such Airports and Landings
Fields; and

(f) The maintenance and use of obstruction markers and/or lights
upon buildings and other structures within said areas as safety
devices;

the height of buildings and/or other structures is hereby regulated and
restricted within a distance of five thousand feet from any such public
Airport or land¹ Field measured at a right angle from any side or in a
radial line from any corner of the established boundary line thereof in any
and all directions as follows:

No building or structure may be erected whose height exceeds one-
fifteenth the shortest distance from the nearest side of said building or
structure to the nearest established perimeter as distinguished from bound-
ary line of such public Airport or Landing Field.

1937, ch. 383, sec. 53.

60. (Enforcement. ) It shall be the duty of the State Aviation Com-
mission to enforce the provisions of this sub-title. The Commission may,
on its own motion, and must, upon written demand of any county or mu-
nicipal authority thereunto duly authorized, proceed to enforce the provi-
sions of this sub-title and the regulations and restrictions therein prescribed
in a court of law or equity of this State having appropriate jurisdiction,
and in such cases the Commission is authorized to institute in the name
of "The State of Maryland" any appropriate action or proceeding to
prevent the erection, construction or maintenance of any building, struc-
ture, or part of building or structure, exceeding in height the limits herein-
above prescribed, to restrain, correct or abate any such violation, and to pre-
vent the occupancy or use of any part of a building or structure erected in
violation of the provisions of this sub-title.

No permit shall be issued by any county, municipality or other public
authority for the erection or construction of any building or structure, or
part thereof, in the vicinity of any such public Airport or Landing Field
and within the areas herein described in Section 59, unless the plans and
specifications for such building or structure, or part thereof, conform in
respect to height to the provisions of this sub-title; and any such permit
issued in violation of this provision shall be deemed to be wholly ineffective
to authorize any erection, construction or maintenance prohibited by this
sub-title.

1937, ch. 383, sec 54.

61. (Investigation, Inquiries and Hearings. ) The Commission, or
any Commissioner or Officer of the Commission designated by the Com-
mission, shall have power to hold and make investigations, inquiries and

¹ "Landing" evidently intended.