11-85-57
Section 11-85-57 Joint planning agreements, etc., with adjoining counties, municipalities, etc., authorized; changes of boundaries of regional planning and development districts to include adjacent counties. (a) Commissions formed pursuant to this article shall have the authority to enter into joint planning agreements, contracts, or programs with adjacent counties, municipalities situated in adjacent counties, or adjacent regional planning and development commissions. (b) If the Governor should determine that it is desirable to change the boundaries of regional planning and development districts which have been defined and designated pursuant to this article to include an adjacent county or counties within such district or districts, he shall have the authority to do so in the manner and form set forth in Section 11-85-51; provided, however, that the criteria or requirements set forth in subsection (b) of Section 11-85-51 with respect to population and numbers of contiguous counties...
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11-85-51
Section 11-85-51 Designation of state planning and development districts by Governor generally; designation of single county state planning and development districts. (a) The Governor may, from time to time as he deems appropriate and necessary, define and designate a state planning and development district by executive order. (b) In defining boundaries of state planning and development districts, the Governor shall consult with the governmental units concerned and shall consider such factors as community of interest and homogeneity; geographic features and natural boundaries; patterns of communication and transportation; patterns of urban development; total population and population density; similarity of social and economic problems; boundaries of existing regional planning commissions and councils of government; existing state functional planning areas and the utility of proposed boundaries for provision of governmental services. Districts should be as large as practicable...
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41-9-211
Section 41-9-211 Powers and duties of office. (a) The powers and duties of the Office of State Planning and Federal Programs shall be as follows: (1) To develop a comprehensive state plan, and yearly updates to the plan, to be submitted by the Governor to the Legislature for its consideration; (2) To develop, for approval by the Governor and the Legislature, long-range plans and policies for the orderly and coordinated growth of the state, including but not limited to, functional plans; (3) To prepare special reports and make available the results of the research, studies and other activities, through publications, memoranda, briefings and expert testimony; (4) To analyze the quality and quantity of services required for the continued orderly and long-range growth of the state, taking into consideration the relationship of activities, capabilities and future plans of local units of government, area commissions, development districts, private enterprise and the state and federal...
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22-27-47
Section 22-27-47 Local plans required. (a) Each county and any municipality as described below shall submit to the department, within one and one-half years of May 16, 1989, a plan for the management of solid waste generated within its boundaries. A county's plan shall include the municipal jurisdictions within its boundaries except that any municipality may choose to submit its own solid waste management plan intended for implementation within its city limits and thereby be excluded from its county plan. Cities which do not choose to exclude themselves from their county's plan shall be responsible to share in the county's costs proportionately on a per capita basis. The content of all plans shall be consistent with the requirements of this article and every plan shall not become final until it has been officially adopted and approved pursuant to the requirements of this article. In the event a county or city does not submit a required plan or if said plan does not meet the minimum...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry, and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion, or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II. This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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11-85-52
Section 11-85-52 Formation of regional planning and development commissions. (a) Generally. At any time subsequent to the designation of a state planning and development district pursuant to Section 11-85-51, governmental units within the district acting through their governing bodies by ordinance or resolution may adopt a written agreement for the formation of a regional planning and development commission and may petition the Governor to certify such a commission for a region located entirely within a state planning and development district and consisting of at least three contiguous counties and containing a population of at least 100,000. Governmental units so petitioning must represent at least a majority of the population within the proposed region. No county shall be divided in forming a region. The Governor may, after consultation with the governing bodies of the governmental units involved, amend petitions to include additional counties to assure that the objectives of this...
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11-85-70
Section 11-85-70 Existing regional planning and development commissions ratified and confirmed. Those 12 bodies, organizations, or persons respectively acting and operating as regional planning and development commissions within their respective districts on May 29, 1985, and however created or established; by formation of nonprofit corporations, by various resolutions of local governments, or by agreements and/or compacts between local governments, or otherwise; are hereby ratified and confirmed as regional planning and development commissions under Sections 11-85-50 through 11-85-59. (Acts 1985, No. 85-757, p. 1260, ยง1.)...
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11-85-40
Section 11-85-40 Powers of Alabama Development Office and local, regional, and joint planning commissions as to comprehensive advisory planning and research; comprehensive advisory planning defined. (a) To facilitate the solution of urban and regional planning problems and to provide for comprehensive advisory planning, including transportation planning, for the state and its cities, counties, urban areas, and regions, the Alabama Development Office, the various regional planning commissions presently authorized to be created, the various county planning commissions presently authorized to be created, the various joint planning commissions presently authorized to be created, municipalities, and the various municipal planning commissions presently authorized to be created are each and all hereby empowered and authorized, within the respective geographical areas as to which planning power has heretofore been delegated to such respective office, commissions, or other agencies to perform...
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11-85-56
Section 11-85-56 Powers and duties generally. A regional planning and development commission established pursuant to this article may perform the following: (1) Carry on continuous, comprehensive planning for the region, assessing needs, resources, and development opportunities and formulating goals, objectives, policies, and standards to guide physical, economic, and human resource development. (2) Prepare a regional plan consistent with state comprehensive planning and reflecting plans and programs of the participating governmental units which shall set forth policies for the development of the region in accordance with present and future needs and resources including policies for patterns of urbanization, for the use of land and resources for commerce, industry, recreation, transportation, forestry, and agriculture, for the development of human resources and for administrative measures in support thereof. (3) Prepare an annual regional development program to implement the policies...
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11-85-53
Section 11-85-53 Composition; selection, terms and replacement of representatives; financing; procedure for addition or withdrawal of governmental units, dissolution, etc. (a) All governmental units within the boundaries of a region which are parties to the agreement for the establishment of a regional planning and development commission shall be represented on the commission as provided in this section. The agreement may provide formulas and procedures under which smaller governmental units may select a common representative and larger units may select more than one representative, but there shall be at least one representative for each county and for each city of over 10,000 population. At least a majority of the representation of a commission shall be elected public officials of the participating governmental units. This section shall not apply to any counties which have formed any regional planning commissions. (b) The terms and manner of selection and replacement of the commission...
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