3760

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 892

(a)    Authorized procedure. After duly advertised
public hearing each District Council [may] from time to
time MAY amend its regulations or any regulation,
including the maps or any Bap, in accordance with [such]
procedures [as may be] established in the respective
zoning ordinances. [Such] THE procedures and ordinances
may include, but [shall] not be limited to: (1)
procedures limiting the times during which amendments may
be adopted; (2) provisions for hearings and preliminary
determinations by an examiner, board or other agency; (3)
procedures for quorums, number of votes required to enact
amendments and variations or increases therein based upon
such factors as master plans, recommendations of the
hearing examiner, planning board, municipality, or other
body, and petitions of abutting property owners, and the
evidentiary value which may be accorded to any or all of
these; and (4) procedures for hearing, notice, costs, and
fees, amendment of applications, stenographic records,
reverter, lapse, and reconsideration de novo of
undeveloped zoning amendments. The existing provisions
of the Regional District Law and of the ordinances
[heretofore] enacted by the respective District Councils
relating to the aforegoing matters shall remain in full
force and effect unless or until specifically superseded
or amended in accordance with the power and authority
granted herein, [provided that] BUT no such amendment
[shall] MAY be made by a District Council, in a year in
which the Council is elected, after the 31st day of
October and until the newly elected Council is duly
qualified and has taken office.

In Montgomery County, in all applications which seek
a classification other than that which is attached to the
subject properties on a local Master Plan, approved by
the District Council, under the provisions of [Section]
TITLE [70-74(e) of this Code, such] 7-108 (E) OF THIS
ARTICLE, THESE applications shall be granted only by the
affirmative vote of five members of the District
Council[; provided, however, that in the event such]. IF
THE application for reclassification is recommended for
approval by the commission or [in the event such] IF THE
application is for a zoning classification created after
the approval of [such] THE master plan by the Council,
then an affirmative vote of four members of the District
Council [shall be] IS required to grant [such] THE
application or applications. In all other cases, an
application [shall] MAY not be granted except by
affirmative vote of at least four members of the district
council.

(b)       Referral to Planning Boards and
Municipalities. Before any map amendment [shall be] IS
passed it shall be submitted to the appropriate Planning
Board and to the governing body of the incorporated