MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                              3769

whole or part upon any zoning regulation or map enacted
by the District Council of that county.

(b)    Upon appeals, the Board of Zoning Appeals
[shall have] HAS the following powers:

(1)    To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged
by the appellant that there is error in any refusal of a
building, use, or occupancy permit or in any other order,
requirement, decision, or determination made by a
building official or by the Commission when passing upon
an application for a building or other permit or by any
other administrative officer or body in the
administration of any zoning regulation enacted pursuant
to this [subheading] TITLE. Nothing contained in this
paragraph shall [be deemed to] authorize the Board of
Zoning Appeals to reverse or modify any refusal of a
permit or any other order, requirement, decision, or
determination which conforms to the provisions of this
[subheading] TITLE and the regulations made under this
[subheading] TITLE and which, therefore, was not
erroneous.

(2)    To hear and decide, in accordance with the
provisions of the regulations enacted by the District
Council, requests for special exceptions or map
interpretations or for decisions upon permits for
extensions, substitutions, -restorations, reinstatements,
or reconstructions of lawful non—conforming uses or other
special questions upon which the Board of Zoning Appeal
is required or authorized by the zoning regulations to
pass.

(3)    [Where] IF the strict application of [such]
THE regulation or amendment would result in peculiar and
exceptional practical difficulties to or exceptional or
undue hardship upon the owner of [said] THE property, by
reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness, or shape
of a specific piece of property at the time of the
original enactment of a regulation or amendment or by
reason of exceptional topographical conditions or other
extraordinary or exceptional situation or condition of a
specific piece of property, to authorize, upon an appeal
relating to [such] THE property, a variance from such
strict application so as to relieve [such] THE difficulty
or hardship, provided [such] relief can be granted
without a substantial impairment of the intent, purpose,
and integrity of the zone as embodied in the zoning
regulations and maps.

(c)    The Board of Zoning Appeals [shall not have
the power to] MAY NOT make or amend any regulation or
map.