The Board of Zoning Appeals shall organize annually and elect a Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary who may, within budgetary limitations, retain the services of a Recording Secretary. The officers of the Board, may hold the same position as officers of the City Planning and Zoning Commission. The Board may adopt from time to time such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the City zoning ordinances. The hearings of the Board shall be public. However, the hearings of the Board may go into executive session for discussion, but not for vote, on any case before it. The Board shall hear any owner of property adjacent to the lot for which the granting of any application is pending and shall also hear any other parties having a substantial interest as determined by the Board. The Chairman and all other voting members of the Board shall vote on any and all matters before the Commission. A majority of the seven members of the Board shall constitute a quorum and when only four members are present the unanimous vote of all four shall be required to take any action under or interpretation of the zoning ordinance by any administrative officer of the City.
(Ord. 9-65-91. Passed 9-3-91.)