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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 5-4 Procedure to designate.">
  <section prefix="§" num="5-4" heading="Procedure to designate.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">A proposal to add a structure to the Potential-Landmark List must comply with the following procedures.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Notice of hearing.">
      <para num="(1)">The Commission’s Chair or the Executive Director must give notice of a public hearing to be held by the Commission on the proposal, as follows:<para num="(i)">by causing a sign to be conspicuously posted on the structure; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">by first-class mail to each person who appears on the tax records of the City as an owner of the subject property.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">The notice must include:<para num="(i)">a statement that the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation proposes to add the structure to the Potential-Landmark List: Exteriors or Potential-Landmark List: Public Interiors, as the case may be;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the proposed date, time, and place of the public hearing to be held on the proposal; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">the Commission’s contact information (including a phone number) for obtaining additional information on the proposal and updated information on the date, time, and place of the hearing.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Timing of hearing.">The public hearing must be held on a date that is:<para num="(1)">no sooner than 30 days from the time the sign is posted; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">except as agreed to by the owner of the subject property, no later than 60 days from the time the sign is posted.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Final decision.">At the end of the public hearing, the Commission must render its decision on whether to include the structure on the Potential-Landmark List.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §40(n)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">2000, art. 6, §3-3(b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 67-939</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-550</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
