- (a) A governing body of a municipality or county may, by ordinance, create a planning commission to promote the orderly development of its jurisdiction.
- (b) Governing bodies may, by ordinance, create a multicounty planning commission, a regional planning commission or a joint planning commission to promote the orderly development of land and reduce duplication of effort.
- (c) The planning commission shall serve in an advisory capacity to the governing body or governing bodies that created it and have certain regulatory powers over land planning.
- (d) Governing bodies and planning commissions are authorized to carry out the objectives and overall purposes of this chapter.
- (e) A planning commission has only those powers, duties and jurisdiction as given to it in the ordinance creating it.