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The hearing may be adjourned from time to time to a date certain on public announcement at the hearing of the earliest practicable date, time and place for resumption of the hearing. A hearing may also be continued, suspended, deferred or postponed either to a time certain or for a reasonable period of time, by the district council or hearing examiner, on public announcement at the originally scheduled hearing or by written notification from the district council or hearing examiner at least 3 days prior to the scheduled public hearing. The scheduling of a public hearing may be postponed or deferred when in the discretion of the district council or hearing examiner the pendency of any preliminary or final master plan, sector plan, highway plan or amendments thereto, zoning and planning studies, capital improvements programs or projects or amendments thereto or zoning text amendments or other matters of a relevant or material nature may substantially affect applications under consideration and promote orderly zoning and planning within the regional district as well as the efficient and economical processing of local map amendment applications. Before the scheduling, rescheduling or resumption of any hearing which has been continued, suspended, deferred or canceled which was not continued, suspended, deferred or canceled to a time certain by the district council or hearing examiner on public announcement at the hearing the provision of subsection 59-H-4.21 shall be complied with and the costs of readvertisement shall be incurred by the county; provided, however that the cost of readvertisement shall be borne by the applicant in the event any such hearing is continued, suspended, deferred or canceled at the request of the applicant or by reason of the applicant's failure to appear at the scheduled public hearing, or because of the applicant's failure to comply with the procedures implementing section 59-H-4.3.
(Legislative History: Ord. No. 8-65, § 3.)