Meetings and actions of historic district commission
(a) Meetings. All meetings of the historic district commission shall be open to the public, and any person or such person's duly constituted representative shall be entitled to appear and be heard on any matter before the commission before its decision is reached. The commission shall keep a record, which shall be open to public view in the town clerk's office and a copy shall be kept in the department of planning and development, of its resolutions, proceedings, findings, decisions and actions. The commission shall provide notice of its meetings and shall comply in all respects with the requirements of the open meeting law.
(b) Actions. The commission shall file with the building inspector its certificate of appropriateness or rejection of all plans submitted to it for review. No work shall begin until such certificate shall have been filed, but in case of rejection, such certificate shall be binding upon the building inspector, and no permit shall be issued in such case. The failure of the commission to act within 45 days from the date of application filed with it, unless an extension is agreed upon mutually by the applicant and the commission, shall be deemed to constitute approval. If, however, the historic district commission shall make a finding of fact that the circumstances of a particular application requires further time and information than can be obtained within the period of 45 days, the commission shall have a period of up to 90 days within which to act upon such application.
(Ord. No. 90-6, § 1, 4-23-1990)
State Law reference— Open meetings law, RIGL 1956, § 42-46-1 et seq.