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Once a municipality has an ordinance plan in effect but has not had any territorial ordinance powers transferred to it, according to the provisions of § 4610 of this title, any approval, authorization or use or construction permit petition, and any petition for amendments to the ordinance plans that is presented before the Planning Board and the Permit Management Office, shall be notified to the corresponding municipality through a copy of the document in question, so that it will have the opportunity to evaluate it and present its position in that respect. Said notice shall be made within the term of ten (10) days after the petition has been filed. The municipality shall submit its comments, through certified letter, to the Planning Board or to the Permit Management Office, as the case may be, within a term not to exceed fifteen (15) days after the date in which it obtains knowledge of the filing of the petition.\nThe Planning Board and the Permit Management Office, at a public hearing held concerning territorial ordinance matters in a municipality having an ordinance plan, shall provide for the participation of a representative of the municipality so that the latter may have the

g held concerning territorial ordinance matters in a municipality having an ordinance plan, shall provide for the participation of a representative of the municipality so that the latter may have the opportunity to question those participating in said hearing.\nThe Planning Board shall establish through regulations, any additional mechanisms or procedures that will promote the effective participation of the municipalities in all matters that affect their physical development or entail determinations that substantially commit the resources of the municipalities. Both agencies shall take whatever measures are needed so that the administrative proceedings under their jurisdiction are not unnecessarily delayed.\nHistory —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 13.018; Oct. 29, 1992, No. 84, § 76.