(a) Generally; publication of notice. Upon accepting an application for filing under this division, the department shallset the application for a public hearing at a specified time and place and shall cause notice of the same to be published once a week for two (2) successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, stating the applicant's name, the date of the hearing and the time, place thereof, the location of the property and such other information as the council may direct. There shall be at least a thirty-day interval between the last newspaper notice and the date of the hearing.
(b) Record; adjournments; rehearing. There shall be a complete stenographic transcript of the testimony at the hearing, and all exhibits offered will become a part of the record. All zoning maps and any sectional or district zoning plan, as well as any sectional or regional or district highway plan adopted by the commission for the general area of the property proposed to be used as an outdoor theater, shall be considered a part of the record whether actually submitted as an exhibit at the hearing or not. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time on a date certain on public announcement at the hearing. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 75-34; 1970 L.M.C., ch. 8, § 7.)