(A) There is hereby created an Airport Appeals Board to have and exercise the following powers:
(1) To hear and decide appeals from any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by the Administrator in the enforcement of this chapter; and
(2) To hear and decide specific variances.
(B) The Airport Appeals Board shall consist of 5 members appointed by the Board of County Commissioners and each shall serve for a term of 4 years or until a successor is duly appointed and qualified. Of the members first appointed, 1 shall be appointed for a term of 1 year, 1 for a term of 2 years, and 1 for a term of 3 years. Members shall be removable by the appointing authority for cause, upon written charges, after a public hearing.
(C) The Airport Appeals Board shall adopt rules for its governance and in harmony with the provisions of this chapter. Meetings of the Airport Appeals Board shall be held at the call of the Chairperson and at other times as the Airport Appeals Board may determine. The Chairperson or, in the absence of the Chairperson, the Acting Chairperson may administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses. All hearings of the Airport Appeals Board shall be public. The Airport Appeals Board shall keep minutes of its proceedings showing the vote of each member upon each question; or if absent or failing to vote, indicating such fact, and shall keep records of its examinations and other official actions, all of which shall immediately be filed in the office of the Airport Ordinance Administrator and on due cause shown.
(D) The Airport Appeals Board shall make written findings of facts and conclusions of law giving the facts upon which it acted and its legal conclusions from the facts in reversing, affirming, or modifying any order, requirement, decision, or determination which comes before it under the provisions of this chapter.
(E) The concurring vote of a majority of the members of the Airport Appeals Board shall be sufficient to reverse any order, requirement, decision, or determination of the Administrator or decide in favor of the applicant on any matter upon which it is required to pass under this chapter, or to effect variation to this chapter.
(Ord. —, passed 1-31-2006)