HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR, 1759

tions provided by such state, county, municipal or other local
regulations.

S. Each District Council may from time to time amend
its regulations or any regulation, including the maps or any
map; but no such amendment shall be passed unless the same
be first submitted to the Commission for approval, disapproval
or suggestions, and the Commission shall have been allowed
a reasonable time, not less than six months for considera-
tion and report. Similarly, in the original zoning regula-
tions enacted by the District Councils, there shall be no change
in or departure from the plan submitted by the Commission
until and unless such change or departure shall first be sub-
mitted to the Commission for its approval, disapproval or sug-
gestions, and the Commission shall have been allowed a rea-
sonable time, not less than six months for consideration
and report. Before any regulation or regulations authorized
by this Act may be passed, the District Council shall hold a
public hearing thereon and shall give thirty days9 notice of the
time and place thereof in two newspapers of general circulation
respectively in the county in which the property is located,
and during said thirty days the text or copy of the text of the
regulations, together with the map or maps forming part of or
referred to in the regulations shall be on file for public exami-
nation in the office of the clerks of the County Commissioners
of said county. The cost of advertising in connection with
publication of proposed amendments in the zoning regulations
or maps shall be paid by the persons or corporations making
application for such changes.

Each District Council is empowered to include in its regula-
tions provisions for additional notice of the public hearing on
any proposal for amendment of its zoning plan or regulations
to be given the owners (as they appear on the assessment rolls
of the county) of properties adjoining or across the road from
or in the same block as or in the general vicinity of the prop-
erties involved in the proposed amendment. Such notice may
be given by mail or by posting of the notice on or in the
vicinity of the properties involved in the proposal or both.

For the purposes of this section, the word "amend" or
"amendment" shall be deemed to include any modification of
the text or phraseology of a regulation or of any provision of,
the regulations or any repeal or elimination of any regulation
or part thereof or any addition to the regulations or any new
regulation or any change in the number, shape, boundary or
area of the districts or of any district or any repeal or abolition
of any map or any part thereof or any addition to any map or
any new map or any other change in the map or maps; and
for the purpose of this and other sections of this Act the words
"'regulate", "regulation" or "regulations" shall be deemed to