A commission may adopt a plan by resolution, but it must hold a public hearing first and use public notice rules before the hearing.
§108. Procedure of commission; adoption of plan A. A commission may adopt a plan as a whole by a single resolution or may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts of a plan, said parts corresponding with major geographical sections or divisions of the parish, in the case of a parish planning commission, or of the municipality, in the case of a municipal planning commission, or with functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan, and may adopt any amendment or extension thereof or addition thereto. B. Before the adoption of a plan or any such part, amendment, extension, or addition, a commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon. A parish planning commission shall give notice of the purpose, time, and place of the public hearing by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation throughout the parish at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. A municipal planning commission shall give notice of the purpose, time, and place of the public hearing by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. C. The adoption of a plan or of any such part or amendment or extension or addition shall be by resolution of a commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter intended by a commission to form the whole or part of a plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the map and plan and descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the chairman or secretary of the commission. D. Certified copies of a summary of the plan or part thereof shall be filed with the division of administration, with the local legislative body and with the clerk of court of the parish, except in the parish of Orleans where certified copies of said plan shall be filed with the Commission Council of the city of New Orleans and recorded with the register of conveyances for the parish of Orleans. Amended by Acts 1952, No. 458, §1; Acts 1968, No. 288, §2; Acts 2004, No. 33, §1; Acts 2012, No. 49, §1, eff. May 11, 2012. NOTE: See R.S. 13:1211 et seq.