§ 31-23-210 — Publicity - travel - information - entry

The commission has
power to promote public interest in and understanding of the plan and to that end
may publish and distribute copies of the plan or any report and may employ such
other means of publicity and education as it may determine. Members of the
commission may attend city planning conferences, meetings of city planning
institutes, or hearings upon pending municipal planning legislation, and the
commission may pay, by resolution, the reasonable traveling expenses incident to
such attendance. The commission shall recommend, from time to time, to the
appropriate public officials programs for public structures and improvements and
for the financing thereof. It shall be part of its duties to consult and advise with
public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational,
professional, and other organizations, and with citizens in relation to protecting and
carrying out the plan. The commission has the right to accept and use gifts for the
exercise of its functions. All public officials shall furnish to the commission, upon
request, within a reasonable length of time, such available information as the
commission may require for its work. The commission and its members, officers, and
employees, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and
make examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary marks and
monuments thereon. In general, the commission has such powers as are necessary
to enable it to fulfill its functions, to promote municipal planning, or to carry out the
purposes of this part 2.

Legislative History

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1148, � 1, effective July 1.