The Commission may publish and distribute copies of the Plan or of any report and may employ such other means of publicity and education as it may determine. Members of the Commission, when authorized by the Commission, may attend city planning conferences or meetings, and the Commission may by resolution pay the reasonable traveling expenses incident to such attendance. The Commission shall consult and advise with public officials and agencies, public utilities companies, civic, educational, professional and other organizations and with citizens with relation to the protecting or carrying out of the Plan. The Commission has the right to accept and use gifts for the exercise of its functions. All public officials shall upon request furnish to the Commission within a reasonable time such available information as it may require for its work. The Commission, its members, officers and employees, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land, make examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon. In general, the Commission shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, promote municipal planning or carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(1990 Code, § 5.362)