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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 3-12 Administrative appeal.">
  <section prefix="§" num="3-12" heading="Administrative appeal.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="How and when taken.">Any person or persons, or corporation, who is dissatisfied with the assessment of damages or benefits may:<para num="(1)">within 20 days after the completion of the corrected statement and map or maps, as provided in &lt;cite data-path="|26|§3-10"&gt;§ 3-10 of this article&lt;/cite&gt;; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">within 20 days from the date of the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; publication of the notice thereof, as provided in &lt;cite data-path="|26|§3-10"&gt;§ 3-10 of this article&lt;/cite&gt;;
appeal therefrom by petition, in writing, to the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals, praying the Board to review the same.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Scheduling hearing; record transmittal.">On appeal, the Board:<para num="(1)">may and shall appoint a day for hearing said appeal, which shall not be less than 5 nor more than 30 days after the expiration of the 20 days limited for taking appeals as aforesaid; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">shall direct the Board’s secretary to notify in writing the Department of Transportation, to produce and deliver to the Board the record of the proceedings of the Department in the case, and all maps, plats, documents, and papers connected with that record.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Board’s powers.">The Board has full power to hear and fully examine the subject and decide on the appeal, and, for that purpose, the Board is authorized and empowered:<para num="(1)">to adjourn from time to time, and</para>
      <para num="(2)">may cause all such appeals to be consolidated, or may hear and decide them separately, and</para>
      <para num="(3)">may require the Department of Transportation, its surveyor, or other agents and servants, or any of them, and all such other persons as the Board shall deem necessary, to attend, and examine them on oath or affirmation, and</para>
      <para num="(4)">may permit and require all such explanations, amendments, and additions to be made to and of the said record of the proceedings as the said Board shall deem requisite.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 47, §10(1st - 3rd cls.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 48, §10(1st - 3rd cls.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 45, §10(1st - 3rd cls.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 35, §6(1st - 3rd cls.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §57(1st - 3rd cls.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §64(1st - 3rd cls.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 51-1530</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 75-945</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
