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<section article="glu" article_name="Land Use" number="10-405" title_number="10" title_name="Baltimore City Zoning" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Implementation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An appeal to the Board may be filed by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a person aggrieved by a decision of the administrative officer or unit; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an officer or unit of Baltimore City affected by a decision of the administrative officer or unit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person shall file an appeal within a reasonable time provided by local law or the rules of the Board by filing with the administrative officer or unit from whose action the appeal is taken and with the Board a notice of appeal specifying the grounds of the appeal.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On receiving the notice of appeal, the administrative officer or unit from whose action the appeal is taken shall transmit to the Board all papers constituting the record of the action appealed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Unless the administrative officer or unit from whose action an appeal is taken, after receiving the notice of appeal, certifies facts to the Board that the administrative officer or unit believes that a stay would cause imminent peril to life or property, an appeal stays all proceedings in the action appealed.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the administrative officer or unit provides facts showing that a stay would cause imminent peril to life or property, the proceedings may be stayed only by a restraining order granted by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Board; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A restraining order may be issued only:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>on application;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>for good cause shown; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>after notice is given to the administrative officer or unit from whose action the appeal is taken.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>establish a reasonable time for the hearing of an appeal;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>give public notice of the existence of the appeal and of the hearing, and due notice to the parties in interest and to other persons entitled to notice under local law or the rules of the Board; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>decide the appeal within a reasonable time.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At a hearing, a party may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>appear in person; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be represented by an agent or attorney.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board may, in conformity with this title:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>wholly or partly reverse the order, requirement, or decision that is the subject of the appeal;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>wholly or partly affirm the order, requirement, or decision that is the subject of the appeal; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>modify the order, requirement, or decision that is the subject of the appeal.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall have the powers of the administrative officer or unit from whose action the appeal is taken.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
