§137. Relationship of commission to municipal and parish planning commission

A. No regional planning commission shall be authorized to exercise the functions of any municipal planning commission or parish planning commission, where such are established within a regional planning area, except as hereinafter provided.

B. In any municipality or parish located in a regional planning area as hereinabove defined, the legislative body of the municipality or parish may designate the regional planning commission as the municipal planning commission or the parish planning commission. Upon such designation the regional planning commission shall have all the powers and functions relating to making, adopting, amending, and adding to the master plan of the municipality or parish or part thereof, or relating to the planning of the municipality or parish as provided or granted by Revised Statutes 33:101 through 119 inclusive or by other laws to the planning commission of the municipality or parish; and the master plan, its parts, amendments, and additions made and adopted by the designated commission for the municipality or parish shall have the same force and effect in the municipality or parish as though made and adopted by a municipal planning commission appointed by the municipality or a parish planning commission appointed by the parish. In acting as the planning commission of the municipality, or the parish the designated regional planning commission shall follow the procedure specified by the provisions of Revised Statutes 33:101 through 119 inclusive and other laws relating to municipal or parish planning commissions. Any municipality or parish so designating a regional planning commission as its planning commission shall pay to the designated commission that portion of the expenses of the designated commission which is properly chargeable to the planning service rendered to the municipality or parish.

C. In cases where a municipality or a parish has a municipal or a parish planning commission functioning within a regional planning area, then the regional planning commission shall recommend measures for the coordination of plans, and if appropriate, recommend plans for adoption by the said municipal or parish planning commission.

D. For purposes of coordination of planning, a parish or municipal planning commission created under R.S. 33:101 through 119 or a smaller regional planning commission created under R.S. 33:131 through 140 geographically contained within an area comprising a planning and development or clearing house district as designated by the Louisiana Commission on Intergovernmental Relations may join any regional planning commission created to serve such planning and development district. In such cooperation for coordination of planning, the parish, municipal or smaller regional planning commission shall not lose its separate identity as a planning commission.

Acts 1956, No. 239, §7. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 607, §1.