2-1-8: POWERS AND DUTIES:
The Plan Commission shall have power:
   A.   To prepare and to recommend to the Village Board a comprehensive plan of public improvements looking to the present and future development of the Village, and to provide reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys, public grounds and other improvements pursuant to law in unsubdivided lands within the corporate limits and in contiguous territory outside and distant not more than one and one-half (11/2) miles from the corporate limits of the Village, insofar as the same are not included in any city, Village or incorporated town. After its adoption by the Village Board, this shall be known as the official comprehensive plan.
   B.   To recommend from time to time changes in the official comprehensive plan.
   C.   To prepare and recommend to the Village board from time to time plans for specific improvements in pursuance of such official comprehensive plan.
   D.   To aid the Village officials charged with the direction of projects for improvements embraced within the official comprehensive plan, to further these projects, and generally, to promote the objectives of the official comprehensive plan.
   E.   To exercise such other powers as may be provided by statute or ordinance or by this code. (1977 Code § 3-2-7)