An application for variances or special exception uses may be made by any property owner, including a tenant, or by a governmental officer, department, board or bureau. Such application shall be filed with the Code Enforcement Officer or other authorized official, who shall transmit the same to the Board.
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Any person or persons or any officer, department, board or bureau of the Town affected by any decision of the Code Enforcement Officer may file an appeal with the Board.
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Such appeal shall be taken within 20 days after the decision by filing with the Code Enforcement Officer and with the Board a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof.
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The Code Enforcement Officer shall forthwith transmit to the Board all documentation pertaining to the action being appealed.
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A filing fee shall accompany each application for an appeal to the Board. Such fee shall be waived if the applicant or appellant is tax supported.
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The amount of the filing fee shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the President and Commissioners of Princess Anne.
The Board shall fix a reasonable time for the hearing of the application or appeal and shall give at least 10 days' notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of the time and place of such hearing to the public and to the parties in interest and shall decide the same within a reasonable time after it is submitted. At the hearing, any party may appear in person or by agent or attorney.
An appeal shall stay all proceedings in furtherance of the action appealed from, unless the Code Enforcement Officer certifies to the Board, after notice of appeal shall have been filed, that, by reason of facts stated in the certificate, a stay would, in the Code Enforcement Officer's opinion, cause imminent peril to life or property. In such a case, proceedings shall not be stayed otherwise than by a restraining order which may be granted by the Board or by the Circuit Court of Somerset County on application after notice to the Code Enforcement Officer and on due cause shown.
In exercising its powers, the Board may, in conformity with the provisions of statutes and of this chapter, reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify the order, requirement, decision or determination appealed from and may make such order, requirement, decision or determination as ought to be made and to that end shall have all powers of the officer from whom the appeal is taken.
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If the application is disapproved by the Board of Appeals, thereafter the Board shall take no further action on another application for substantially the same proposal on the same premises.
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If an appeal to the Board is perfected and the public hearing date set by the posting of the property and thereafter the applicant withdraws the appeal, the applicant shall be precluded from filing another application for substantially the same proposal on the same premises for six months.
Any party adversely affected by a decision of the Board may appeal to the Circuit Court of Somerset County in accordance with the Maryland Rules.