1030 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 426

Board and the Attorney shall receive such compensation
as may be provided in the county budget.

(b) The Board of Zoning Appeals may adopt its own
rules of procedure, which must not be inconsistent with
this sub-title. The Board of Zoning Appeals is empowered
to hear and to take action on any appeal from a decision
of the above named Zoning Commissioner. Appeals to the
said Board may be made by any person, or official or board
severally or individually aggrieved by a decision of the
Zoning Commissioner and hearings on such appeals shall
be open to the public. The Board of Zoning Appeals shall,
for the purpose of such hearings, have the power to compel
the attendance of witnesses and to administer oaths and
shall keep minutes of all such hearings. The Board shall
act upon any such appeal by resolution, with at least two
members concurring, and may affirm or reverse, in part or
in toto, the decision appealed from. Such resolutions shall
be in writing and shall contain a statement as to the basis
for the decision, which decision must be based on the cor-
rectness or incorrectness of the decision appealed from or
upon an interpretation of the zoning map or of disputed
boundary lines or upon the necessity for modifying the
decision appealed from in order to permit the extension
of a lawful non-conforming use throughout the same lot
or building, or in order to permit the restoration of a
lawful non-conforming use where the same has been par-
tially destroyed, or in order to provide succour where
undue hardship and the practical difficulty of an exact
compliance with the law can be shown due to exceptional
topography, or lot shape or other exceptional circumstance.

(c) The County Commissioners or the Board of Zoning
Appeals or the Zoning Commissioner shall not issue any
permit for any proposed construction, reconstruction,
extension, repairs or alterations when the proposed con-
struction, reconstruction, extension, repairs or alterations
fall within any of the Airport Zoning Districts of the
Friendship International Airport as set out on the airport
zoning maps for the Friendship International Airport
recorded in the Land Record Office of Anne Arundel
County until the applicant has been issued an airport zon-
ing permit by the Baltimore City-Anne Arundel County
Airport Zoning Board.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 29, 1949.