THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1771

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 consideration and report. With the Commission's reso-
lution transmitting its recommendation with respect to
applications for zoning amendments under this section
there shall be transmitted a copy of the report of the
Commission's technical staff thereon. Similarly, in the
original zoning regulations enacted by the District coun-
cils, 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 submitted to the Com-
mission for its approval, disapproval or suggestions, and
the Commission shall have been allowed a reasonable
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 days' notice
of the time and place thereof in two newspapers of general
circulation respectively in the county in which the prop-
erty 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 examination in the office of the
clerks of the County Commissioners of said county. The
cost of advertising in connection with publication of pro-
posed 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
regulations 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 properties 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 proper-
ties 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 pro-
vision of the regulations or any repeal or elimination of
any regulation or part thereof or any addition to the regu-