(A) General powers and duties; personnel; expenses. The members of the Planning Commission shall serve without pay, and it shall be the duty of such Commission to prepare, from time to time, plans for the systematic development and betterment of the town as a place of residence and for business. It shall have the power and authority to employ engineers, attorneys, clerks, and a secretary or other help deemed necessary, subject to the approval of the Town Board of Trustees. The salaries and compensation of such employees shall be fixed by the Town Board of Trustees and shall be paid out of the Town Treasury as other officers and employees, and the necessary expenses incurred by paid Planning or Zoning Commission shall be paid out of the Town Treasury as other legal expenses of the town government.
(Prior Code, § 18-7)
(B) Specific powers and duties. The Town Planning Commission or Zoning Commission may consider and investigate any subject matter tending to the development and betterment of such municipality and make such recommendations as it may deem advisable concerning the adoption thereof to the Town Board of Trustees and said Commission may, for any purpose, make or cause to be made surveys, maps, or plans before the final action shall be taken by the Town Board of Trustees in the location and design of any public building, statue, memorial, park, boulevard, street, alley, playground, or the grade thereof; such question shall be submitted to said Town Planning Commission for investigation and report.
(1) All plans, plats, or re-plats of land laid out in lots or plats and streets, alleys, or other portion of the same intended to be dedicated to public or private use within the corporate limits of said town shall first be submitted to said Town Planning Commission for its approval or rejection.
(2) The disapproval of any such plan, plat, or re-plat by the legislative body of said town shall be deemed a refusal of the purported dedication shown thereon.
(Prior Code, § 18-8)