§ 67-13-10 — Zoning; regulations and restrictions; public hearings

required; notice. A. A county, within its jurisdiction, shall provide for the manner in which scenic highway zoning regulations and restrictions are determined, established, enforced, amended, supplemented and repealed. B. No proposed scenic highway zoning regulation or restriction shall become effective, be amended, supplemented or repealed until after a public hearing at which all parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. Bilingual notice of the date, time and place of the public hearing shall be published for two consecutive weeks at least fifteen days prior to the date of the hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation within the respective county. The notice shall contain, in addition to the date, time and place of the hearing, the title of the ordinance, a summary of its contents and a statement as to the time and place where copies of the ordinance may be obtained and where a display of zoning maps may be studied. C. Whenever a change in zoning is proposed, notice of the public hearing on the ordinance shall be published as required by the preceding subsection and in addition, notice of the public hearing shall be mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the owners, as shown by the records of the county assessor, of lands or lots within the area proposed to be changed and which are within three hundred feet, excluding right- of-way, of the area proposed to be changed. D. If any owner of real property included in the area proposed for a change in zoning, protests in writing the proposed change, the proposed change in zoning will not become effective unless the change is approved by the unanimous vote of the entire board of county commissioners.

Legislative History

1953 Comp., § 55-14-10, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 17, § 10.