This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.

---

ARTICLE XI
AMENDMENTS
Section 1101. AMENDMENTS
The Mayor and City Council may from time to time on its own motion or on petition, from a property owner, or recommendation of the Planning Commission amend the regulations and districts herein established. Any proposed amendments shall be forwarded to the Planning Commission for their review, comments and recommendations prior to final action by the Mayor and City Council.
Amendments to districts shall be either permanent or single vise. A single use amendment would allow the utilization of existing structures in non-compliance areas on a single permit. If the permitted use is discontinued for a period of six months the single use amendment would become void. No change in regulation, restrictions or district boundaries shall become effective until after a public hearing is held by the Planning Commission, at which interested agencies and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard.
At least fifteen (15) days notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in an official paper, or paper of general circulation in Hancock County.
Each amendment shall be voted upon in accordance with local ordinances or state statutes except in a case of protest against such change. If a protest against such a change is presented and is signed by the owners of twenty (20) percent or more of those within a radius of one hundred fifty (150) feet of the external boundaries of the area in such proposed change, such amendments shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of two-thirds of all the members of the City Council for the City of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
A deposit of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be paid by by the applicant for each zoning petition for amendment tc the zoning regulation to cov::t the cost of legal publication and processing.