Section 2.110
The planning commission shall have the power to promote public interest in and understanding of the master plan, and to that end may publish and distribute copies of the plan or any report and may employ such other means of publicity and education as it may determine. Members of the commission, when duly authorized by the commission, may attend city planning conferences or meetings of the city planning institutes, or hearings upon pending city planning legislation, and the commission may, by resolution spread upon its minutes, pay the reasonable traveling expenses incident to such attendance. The commission shall, 7/27/26, 10:12 AM Mayville, MI Code of Ordinances about:blank 17/202 (a) (b) from time to time, recommend to the appropriate public officials programs for public structures and improvements and for the financing thereof. It shall be part of its duties to consult and advise with public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional and other organizations, and citizens with relation to the protecting or carrying out the plan. The commission shall have 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 length of time, such available information as it may require for its work. The commission and its members, officers and employees, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments and markers thereon. In general, the commission shall have such power as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, promote municipal planning, or carry out the purposes of this division. (Comp. Ords. 1987, § 12.010) State Law reference— Similar provisions, MCL 125.41, MSA 5.3001.