(A) Any person aggrieved by a ruling of the Health, Building and Zoning Officer charged with the enforcement of the zoning chapter or by any officer, department, board or bureau of the city concerning the interpretation of the zoning code, may take an appeal to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
(B) Such appeal shall be taken within such time as shall be prescribed by the Zoning Board of Appeals by general rules adopted by it, and shall be taken by filing with the City Clerk and with the Zoning Board of Appeals, a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof, together with such plats and exhibits as are reasonably necessary. Such appeal shall be taken upon forms provided by the Zoning Board of Appeals. The Clerk shall forthwith transmit to the Board all of the papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed was taken.
(C) The Board may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify or amend the order, requirements, decisions or determination appealed from to the extent and in the manner that the Board may decide to be fitting and proper in the premises, and to that end, the Board shall also have all the powers of the officer from whom the appeal is taken.
(D) The City Board shall also hear and decide all matters referred to it or upon which it is required to pass under the zoning chapter.
(E) The concurring vote of four members of the Board shall be necessary to reverse any order, requirement, decision, or determination of the Building Commissioner or to decide in favor of the applicant any matter upon which it is authorized by the zoning chapter to render decisions.
(F) The Zoning Board of Appeals shall fix a reasonable time and place for the hearing of such appeals and shall give notice thereof to the persons appealing and to the officer from whom the appeal is taken. It shall hear and decide the appeal within a reasonable time. At the hearing, parties of interest may appear in person or by agent or attorney.
(G) Stay of proceedings. The appeal shall stay all proceedings and furtherance of action appealed from, unless the Health, Building and Zoning Officer certifies to the Zoning Board of Appeals, after notice of appeal has been filed with him, that by reason of facts stated in the certificate a stay would, in his opinion, cause imminent peril to life or property; in which case the proceedings shall not be stayed otherwise than by a restraining order which may be granted by the Zoning Board of Appeals or by court of record on application, with notice to the officer from whom the appeal is taken, and all due causes shown.
(H) All final administrative decisions of the Board under this section shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Review Act," of the state, approved May 8, 1945, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto. The term
ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION
is defined in Section I of the "Administrative Review Act."
('71 Code, § 2-12-2)