RS 140.13 - Miscellaneous powers of the commission
The commission may make reports and recommendations relating to the plan and development of the area within its jurisdiction to public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional and other organizations and citizens. It may recommend to the executive or legislative officials of the City of Shreveport and Caddo Parish, and to other public or semi-public boards, commissions, agencies, or other bodies, programs for public improvements and the financing thereof. All public officials shall, upon request, make available to the commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work. The commission, its members and employees, in the performance of its 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 additional powers as granted by ordinances adopted by the City Council or the Police Jury as the case may be.
NOTE: §140.13 as amended by Acts 2020, No. 294, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
RS 140.13 - Planning commission as platting authority
After the commission has recommended and the city council has adopted a master plan in whole or in part, no plat of a subdivision of land lying within the area covered by the plan shall be filed or recorded until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the commission, and such approval entered in writing on the plat by the secretary of the commission. The clerk of court of Caddo Parish shall not file or record a plat of a subdivision without the approval of the commission as required by this Subpart; the filing or recording of a plat of a subdivision without the approval of the commission as required by this Section shall be void.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §13; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.