HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                    1961

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CHAPTER 543

(House Bill 1179)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission -

Sand and Gravel Mining Cases

PG/MC 36-86

FOR the purpose of altering certain provisions of law relating to

the evaluation by the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission of a certain report concerning a request
for a special exception for the mining of sand or gravel in
Prince George's County; and altering provisions relating to
a fee that may be charged for certain reports,

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 28 - Maryland-National Capital Park and

Planning Commission
Section 8-110

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 28 - Maryland-National Capital Park and

Planning Commission

8-110.

(a) A district council, in its zoning regulations, may
provide that the board of zoning appeals or the district council,
or in Montgomery County, an administrative office or agency
designated by the district council, in appropriate cases and
subject to appropriate principles, standards, rules, conditions,
and safeguards set forth in the regulations, may either grant or
deny, upon conditions as may be deemed necessary to carry out the
purposes of this article, special exceptions and variances to the
provisions of the zoning regulations in harmony with their
general purposes and intent. In Prince George's County the
district council may provide, in its zoning regulations, that the
zoning hearing examiner may grant or deny special exceptions, and
shall provide for the appeal of decisions of the zoning hearing
examiner in special exception cases to the district council. The
decisions of the administrative office or agency in Montgomery
County shall be subject to an appeal to either the board of
appeals or other administrative body as may be designated by the
district council and the appeal shall follow that procedure which
may from time to time be determined by the district council. The
district council also may authorize the board of zoning appeals
to interpret the zoning maps or pass upon disputed questions of