(a) The City Beautiful Commission shall study, conceive, formulate, promulgate and develop plans for the beautification of streets, highways, alleys, utility installations, parks, streams, playgrounds, yards, lots and buildings; shall study, investigate and develop plans for improving the health, sanitation, safety and cleanliness of the City; shall foster the prevention of fires, diseases and other public hazards; shall encourage and recommend the placing, planting and preservation of trees, flowers, plants, shrubbery and other objects of ornamentation in the City; shall collect, study and evaluate information on community improvements and make recommendations thereon; and shall sponsor, plan, promote, coordinate and carry out the annual spring Clean-Up-Paint-Up-Fix-Up campaign activities and otherwise promote public interest in the general improvement of the appearance of the City. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to abridge, invade, supplant or change the powers or duties of the other commissions, departments, boards and agencies of the City.
(b) No work of art shall be contracted for or placed on City property or become the property of the City by purchase, gift or otherwise, unless such work of art, or a design or model of the same, if permitted by the Commission, together with the proposed location of such work of art, have first been submitted to the Commission for its recommendation to the Mayor and/or Council. The Commission shall have similar authority and duties with respect to the design of buildings, bridges, overpasses, gates, fences, lamp standards or other structures erected upon or to be erected upon land belonging to the City, or which will extend over or upon a street, highway, avenue, park or public property of the City.
(c) The Commission may act in an advisory capacity with any or all departments of the City, or with private residents, groups or concerns in relation to matters listed in this section. The Commission may recommend for transmission, through the Mayor, to Council, the awarding of prizes or awards to be given by the City as incentive to and in recognition of the work of residents, businesses or organized groups who or which, in the opinion of the Commission, have made outstanding contributions toward the purposes of the Commission.
(d) The Commission shall decide any matter involving delay of planned structures or improvements pending Commission action within thirty days from submission, failing which decision Commission action shall be deemed thereafter unnecessary.
(1974 Code § 1.154)