Any person desiring a zoning amendment shall propose it in writing to the Selectmen for insertion in the warrant of a Town Meeting, regular or special.

If geographic change of a zoning boundary description be proposed, word of boundary description change for insertion in the warrant shall be accompanied by a brief written statement of the nature, extent and location in the Town of the Zoning Map change proposed, together with three black-line prints of a diagram to scale showing the area to be changed, stating pertinent dimensions in feet.

On each zoning amendment proposal accepted by the Selectmen for insertion in a Town Meeting warrant, or on any such proposal inserted in a Town Meeting warrant by petition as provided by statute, the Planning Board shall hold a public hearing, of which notice shall be given by the Planning Board under the statutory zoning notice provisions of Chapter 40A.

The costs of publication and of mailing of notices of hearing and the costs of holding such zoning hearing and of making a public record of the proceedings at such hearings, if such a record be made, shall be paid by the Planning Board, but the Planning Board may determine whether a fee to cover such costs shall be required of the zoning amendment proponents.