§ 150.04 POWERS AND DUTIES.
   The Plan Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
   (A)   To prepare and recommend in the City Council a comprehensive plan of public improvements, looking to the present and future development and growth of the city. Such a plan, after its adoption by the City Council, will be known as the “official plan.” The official plan shall include reasonable requirements in reference to streets, alleys, and public grounds within the corporate limits and in contiguous territory outside of and distant not more than 1½ miles from the corporate limits and not included in any municipality, those requirements to be effective whenever these lands shall be subdivided after the adoption of the plan;
   (B)   To prepare and recommend to the City Council from time to time those changes in the plan or any part thereof as may be deemed necessary by the City Council or by the Plan Commission;
   (C)   To prepare and recommend to the City Council from time to time plans or recommendations for specific improvements in pursuance of the official plan;
   (D)   To give aid to the city officials charged with the direction of projects for improvements embraced within the official plan, to further the making of such improvements, and generally to promote the realization of the official plan;
   (E)   To arrange and conduct any form of publicity relative to its activities for the general purpose of public understanding;
   (F)   To cooperate with municipal or regional planning commissions and other agencies or groups to further the local planning program and to assure harmonious and integrated planning for the area; and
   (G)   To exercise those other powers germane to the powers granted under authority of the state.
(1969 Code, § 19-14)