INHABITANTS OF TOWN OF BOOTHBAY, ETC. v. Russell

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• noting that Boards of Appeals perform an adjudicatory function “within [a] limited jurisdiction”
• zoning board of appeals of municipality has exclusively adjudicatory function and is not proper party to an appeal from its own decision
• rejecting the idea that a zoning board or one of its members might be a partisan in actions pertaining to its decisions
• upholding the zoning board's affirmance of building inspector's denial of a permit where a landowner built a \picnic deck\ in violation of the shoreland zoning ordinance despite the refusal of a building permit
• \Absent a positive legislative grant of authority ... the board is not a proper party.\
• \ Absent a positive legislative grant of authority ... the board is not a proper party.\

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