Section 359. Public hearing; distribution of tentative budget  


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  • Before the
      final adoption of the budget, the board  of  supervisors  shall  hold  a
      public  hearing  on  the tentative budget with such changes, alterations
      and revisions, as shall have been made therein by such board pursuant to
      section three hundred fifty-eight. The clerk of the board of supervisors
      shall cause to be printed or otherwise reproduced at least  one  hundred
      copies  of such tentative budget as so changed, altered and revised, but
      the board of supervisors, by  resolution,  may  direct  that  a  greater
      number  of  copies be so printed or reproduced.  The time when and place
      where such hearing shall be held shall be fixed  by  resolution  of  the
      board  of supervisors. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause
      a notice to be published stating the time,  place  and  purpose  of  the
      public  hearing  and  that  copies  of the tentative budget on which the
      public hearing will be held are available  at  his  office  and  may  be
      inspected  or  procured thereat by any interested person during business
      hours. There shall be included in the notice of the  public  hearing  on
      the  tentative  budget,  or  in  a separate notice published in the same
      manner and at the same time as such notice of hearing,  a  statement  of
      the  maximum  salary,  or  the maximum rate of per diem compensation, or
      both, as the case may be, that may  be  fixed  and  payable  during  the
      ensuing  fiscal  year  to the members of the board of supervisors and to
      the chairman  respectively.  The  notice  of  public  hearing  shall  be
      published  at  least once in the official newspaper or newspapers of the
      county, and in such other newspapers and for such  other  times  as  the
      board  of  supervisors,  by resolution, may direct.   At least five days
      shall elapse between the first  publication  of  such  notice  and  date
      specified  for  the  hearing.  The  hearing shall be held on the date so
      specified at which time any person may be  heard.  The  hearing  may  be
      adjourned  from  day  to  day,  but  not later than the twentieth day of
      December.