Adoption, amendment, execution, etc., of municipal plan and creation of municipal planning commission authorized; designations of planning commissions.

(a) Any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to make, adopt, amend, extend, add to, or carry out a municipal plan as provided in this article and to create by ordinance a planning commission with the powers and duties herein set forth.

(b) The planning commission of a city shall be designated city planning commission and the planning commission of a town, town planning commission, as its council may specify.

(Acts 1935, No. 534, p. 1126; Code 1940, T. 37, §787.)