§ 3-12. Administrative appeal.
(a) How and when taken.
Any person or persons, or corporation, who is dissatisfied with the assessment of damages or benefits may:
(1) within 20 days after the completion of the corrected statement and map or maps, as provided in § 3-10 of this article; and
(2) within 20 days from the date of the 1st publication of the notice thereof, as provided in § 3-10 of this article;
appeal therefrom by petition, in writing, to the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals, praying the Board to review the same.
(b) Scheduling hearing; record transmittal.
On appeal, the Board:
(1) may and shall appoint a day for hearing said appeal, which shall not be less than 5 nor more than 30 days after the expiration of the 20 days limited for taking appeals as aforesaid; and
(2) shall direct the Board's secretary to notify in writing the Department of Transportation, to produce and deliver to the Board the record of the proceedings of the Department in the case, and all maps, plats, documents, and papers connected with that record.
(c) Board's powers.
The Board has full power to hear and fully examine the subject and decide on the appeal, and, for that purpose, the Board is authorized and empowered:
(1) to adjourn from time to time, and
(2) may cause all such appeals to be consolidated, or may hear and decide them separately, and
(3) may require the Department of Transportation, its surveyor, or other agents and servants, or any of them, and all such other persons as the Board shall deem necessary, to attend, and examine them on oath or affirmation, and
(4) may permit and require all such explanations, amendments, and additions to be made to and of the said record of the proceedings as the said Board shall deem requisite.