§ 36-7-4-410 — Powers; county-municipal plan commission

(a) ADVISORY. The legislative body of
any municipality located in a county having an advisory plan
commission may, by ordinance, designate that county plan commission
as the municipal plan commission. Such an ordinance may also provide
that the county board of zoning appeals has jurisdiction within the
corporate boundaries of the municipality. A county plan commission
so designated has for that municipality all the powers and duties
granted, under the advisory planning law, to a municipal plan
commission. Any municipality designating a county plan commission
as its municipal plan commission may contract annually to pay the
county a proportionate part of the expenses that is properly chargeable
to the planning service rendered that municipality. The county shall
appropriate these payments to the county plan commission in addition
to any sums budgeted for planning purposes.
(b) ADVISORY. Whenever a municipality designates a county plan
commission as its municipal plan commission under subsection (a),
residents of that municipality are eligible to be appointed citizen
members of the commission under section 208(a)(5) of this chapter.
Whenever a county board of zoning appeals has jurisdiction within the
corporate boundaries of a municipality, residents of that municipality
are eligible to be appointed citizen members of the board of zoning
appeals under section 902 of this chapter.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-7-2-19;
18-7-4-410; 18-7-4-24; 18-7-5-25; 18-7-5-26; 18-7-5-27.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.23. Amended by
P.L.192-1984, SEC.10; P.L.126-2011, SEC.15.