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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 19-302 Judicial review.">
  <section prefix="§" num="19-302" heading="Judicial review.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Final administrative decision.">All decisions and findings of the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals that are made on appeals, on application for conditional uses or variances, and in all other matters on which the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals is required to act after public notice and hearing, are final administrative decisions, subject to judicial review.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Who may seek.">Judicial review of a final administrative decision of the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals may be sought by:<para num="(1)">any person aggrieved by the decision; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">any officer or department, board, bureau, or other unit of the City aggrieved by the decision.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="How and when taken.">
      <para num="(1)">This review must be sought within the time and in the manner required by law and the Maryland Rules of Procedure.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Before the petition for judicial review is filed with the court, the petitioner must file a copy with the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals and the Zoning Administrator.</para>
      <para num="(3)">The Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals must promptly notify the City Solicitor of the filing of every petition for judicial review.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Stay of proceedings.">
      <para num="(1)">The filing of a petition for judicial review does not stay the proceedings for which the review is sought.</para>
      <para num="(2)">On motion and hearing, the court may grant a stay on good cause shown, subject to the conditions of bond or otherwise that the court considers proper.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-015</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
