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1927, ch. 705, sec. 4.

4. Method of Procedure. The legislative body of such municipality
shall provide for the manner in which such regulations and restrictions and
the boundaries of such districts shall be determined, established, and en-
forced, and from time to time amended, supplemented, or changed. How-
ever, no such regulation, restriction, or boundary shall become effective
until after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest
and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least 15 days'
notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in an official
paper, or a paper of general circulation, in such municipality.

1927, ch. 705, sec. 5.

5. Changes. Such regulations, restrictions and boundaries may from
time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed.
In case, however, of a protest against such change, signed by the owners
of 20 per cent or more either of the area of the lots included in such pro-
posed change, or of those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof extend-
ing 100 feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto extending 100
feet from the street frontage of such opposite lots, such amendment shall
not become effective except by the favorable vote of three-fourths of all
the members of the legislative body of such municipality. The provisions
of the previous section relative to public hearings and official notice shall
apply equally to all changes or amendments.

1927, ch. 705, sec. 6.

6. Zoning Commission. In order to avail itself of the powers con-
ferred by this Article, such legislative body shall appoint a commission, to
be known as the Zoning Commission, to recommend the boundaries of the
various original districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced there-
in. Such commission shall make a preliminary report and hold public
hearings thereon before submitting its final report, and such legislative
body shall not hold its public hearings or take action until it has received
the final report of such commission. Where a Board of Zoning Appeals
already exists, it may be appointed as the Zoning Commission.

1927, ch. 705, sec. 7.

7. Board of Zoning Appeals. Such local legislative body may pro-
vide for the appointment of a Board of Zoning Appeals, and in the regula-
tions and restrictions adopted pursuant to the authority of this Article may
provide that the said Board of Zoning Appeals may, in appropriate cases
and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, make special excep-
tions to the terms of the ordinance in harmony with its general purpose
and intent and in accordance with general or specific rules therein con-
tained.

The Board of Zoning Appeals shall consist of five members and they
shall be appointed for a term of four years, but of the first appointed mem-
bers one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two
years, one for a term of three years and one for a term of four years. Va-