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BILL TAYLOR COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGE City of Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi
(REVISED 8/22/03)
SECTION IX
PROCEDURES FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS
Anyone desiring to take action requiring a certificate of appropriateness concerning a landmark or landmark site for which a permit, variance, or other authorization from either the City Building Official or the City Council is also required, shall make application therefore in the form and manner required by the applicable code section or ordinance. Any such application shall also be considered an application for a certificate of appropriateness and shall include such additional information as may be required by the Commission. After receipt of any such application, the City Building Official shall be assured that the application is proper and complete. No building permit shall be issued by the City Building Official which affects a landmark or landmark site without a certificate of appropriateness. In the event that a building permit need not be obtained for a building, structure, or object to be erected with a preservation district or on a landmark or landmark site, a certificate of appropriateness is still required before such building, structure, or object may be erected. Thereafter, such application shall be reviewed in accordance with the following procedure:
A.	When any such application is filed, the City Building Official shall immediately notify the
Commission chairman or vice-chairman, if the chairman is unavailable, of the application having been filed.
B.	If at the time of filing of an application, there is not a Commission meeting already scheduled within thirty (30) days of this filing, the chairman or vice-chairman shall set a time and date, which shall be not later than fifteen (15) days after the filing of the application for a hearing by the Commission, and the City Building Official shall be so informed.
C.	The applicant shall, upon request, have the right to a preliminary conference with a member of the Commission or of the Commission staff for the purpose of making any changes or adjustments to the application, which might not comply with this ordinance.
D.	Not later than eight (8) days before the date set for the said hearing, the City Building Official shall mail notice thereof to the applicant at the address in the application and to all members of the Commission.
E.	Notice of time and place of said hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the city at least ten (10) days before such hearing and by posting such notice on the bulletin board in the lobby of city hall.
F.	At such hearing, the applicant for a certificate of appropriateness shall have the right to present any relevant evidence in support of the application. Like the governing body shall have the right to present any additional relevant evidence in support of the application.
G.	The Commission shall have the right to recommend changes and modifications to enable the applicant to meet the requirements of this ordinance.
H.	Within not more than twenty-one (21) days after the hearing on an application, the Commission shall act upon it, either approving, denying, or deferring action until the next meeting of the Commission, giving consideration to the factors set forth in Section VIII hereof. Evidence of approval of the application shall be by certificate of appropriateness issued by the Commission and, whatever its decision, notice in writing shall be given to the applicant and the City Building Official. Whenever the Commission denies a certificate of appropriateness, the Commission must state the reasons for such denial in writing. Thereafter, an applicant may resubmit a new application at any time, except that an applicant must wait six (6) months whenever an application for a certificate of appropriateness is denied for a landmark property of statewide or National significance and notice of any second or subsequent application must be sent to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
I.	In all cases of applications affecting National Historic Landmarks, at least a majority of the members of the Commission must approve a certificate of appropriateness in order for it to be
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