RS 140.15 - Effective date
In creating a metropolitan planning commission, as authorized by this Sub-Part, the City Council of the City of Shreveport and the Police Jury of Caddo Parish shall, by mutual agreement, designate the date upon which the powers, duties and authority of the commission shall take effect. Until such time as the Metropolitan Planning Commission begins the performance of its duties the existing City Planning Commission of the City of Shreveport shall be continued with all the powers and duties heretofore held; and, by the aforesaid date the City Planning Commission shall have turned over to the Metropolitan Planning Commission all of its records, plans, studies, or other instruments of its work and planning. Upon the attachment of the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Planning Commission, the powers of the City Planning Commission of the City of Shreveport in conflict herewith, shall cease to exist; provided, however, that such plans or parts thereof as have been lawfully adopted by the City Planning Commission, including but not limited to the subdivision regulations, major street plan, and zoning plan, shall continue in effect and shall be administered by the Metropolitan Planning Commission until repealed or replaced by such Metropolitan Planning Commission in accordance with this Sub-Part.
NOTE: §140.15 as amended by Acts 2020, No. 294, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
RS 140.15 - Procedure on subdivision plats; appeals
A.(1) The secretary of the commission or his deputy shall issue a receipt showing the date, time, and sufficient description to identify any plat submitted to it for approval.
(2) The commission shall approve or disapprove the plat within sixty days thereof, otherwise the plat shall be deemed to be approved and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the commission on demand; however, the applicant for commission approval may waive this requirement and consent to the extension of such period.
(3) The ground of disapproval of any plat shall be stated upon the records of the commission, with the recorded vote of each member included in the records.
(4) No plat shall be disapproved by the commission without affording a hearing thereon.
B. Any applicant or other person may appeal commission approval or disapproval of a subdivision plat to the city council under such procedures and provisions as shall be established in the subdivision regulations.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §15; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.