J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1511

of the district council, stated separately, or the fact that such mem-
ber was absent.

50 106. 59 101. 59-103.

All witnesses appearing in a hearing before the district council
shall be subject to cross-examination-; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
THE DISTRICT COUNCIL MAY ESTABLISH REASONABLE
RULES AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING CROSS-EXAMINA-
TION.

50 107. 59 105. 59-104.

(a) No application for a map amendment or special exception,
WHICH IS CONTESTED, shall be granted OR DENIED except
upon written findings of basic facts and written conclusions of law.

(b) In making such findings of fact and conclusions of law, the

district council shall be governed by the standards enumerated in

Article 66B, Section 3, of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

59 108. 59 106. 59-105.

Whenever the District Council disapproves, in whole or in part,
an application for a map amendment or special exception, it shall
not entertain a subsequent application respecting the same land or
any portion thereof within eighteen months from the date of the
first disapproval, and twenty-four months from the date of the
second or further disapproval. As used in this section, date of dis-
approval means the date upon which the district council announces
its decision, or, in the event of appellate review, the date upon which
the Circuit Court announces its decision. In any subsequent appli-
cation respecting the same land or any portion thereof, FOR THE
SAME ZONING CLASSIFICATION OR THE SAME SPECIAL
EXCEPTION PURPOSE, BY THE SAME APPLICANT OR AP-
PLICANTS, the district council shall not receive as evidence or base
its findings SOLELY upon any fact or circumstance which was, or
could have been, proved PRESENTED at the earlier hearing.

50 109.59-107.

Whenever the District Council shall hereafter approve, in whole

or in part, an application for map amendment, the land for which

the application is approved must be substantially developed and
utilized UNDER DEVELOPMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
STANDARDS TO BE ADOPTED BY THE DISTRICT COUN-
CIL for a use permissible under the new classification within

five (5) years from the date of approval of the said amendment, or

the said amendment shall become automatically null and void, and

the classification shall revert to the previous classification.

59--110.

When, in an appeal from a decision of the of the district council, any

party, including a party by intervention, files an affidavit of removal

conforming to the provisions of Article IV, Section 8 of the Consti-
tution of Maryland, the Circuit Court shall remove said case to a

circuit court in another judicial circuit adjacent to Prince George's

County.