(A) Any person or persons, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the Board of Adjustment, or any officer of the City of Raton may submit to the City Commission a petition duly verified, the petition constituting an appeal, setting forth that the decision is illegal, in whole or in part, specifying the grounds of the illegality, and the Board of Adjustment upon notification of the submission, shall forthwith transmit to the City Commission all the papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was taken, or certified copies of the same. The City Commission shall after notice to the public, given in the same manner as prescribed in § 156.213 above, and after notice to the interested parties concerned, hear and decide the appeal.
(B) The appeal shall be taken within 30 days of the date at which the action appealed from was taken by the Board of Adjustment.
(C) The appeal to the City Commission shall be deemed to constitute a stay of legal proceedings in the same manner, and subject to the same limitations as the original appeal to the Board of Adjustment.
(1981 Code, App. A) (Ord. 624, Art. XV, § 5, passed 2-25-1975)