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<section article="glu" article_name="Land Use" number="9-804" title_number="9" title_name="Single-County Provisions" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Charles County">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only to an application for a special exception for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an asphalt plant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a concrete plant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>sand and gravel washing, crushing, or screening; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>surface mining.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Notwithstanding Title 4, Subtitle 3 of this article, the county commissioners may hear and decide a special exception under an appeal filed by a property owner who is aggrieved by a decision of the board of appeals on the special exception.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The county commissioners shall hear and decide an appeal of a special exception in accordance with rules and procedures adopted by the county commissioners.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If the county commissioners adopt rules and procedures for considering a special exception under this section, the decision of the county commissioners to grant, deny, modify, or remand the application for the special exception is a final decision for which judicial review may be requested in the circuit court under Title 4, Subtitle 4 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
