<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 50-29. - Miscellaneous powers and duties of board.</div>
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               (a)
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               The planning board may conduct such public hearings as may be required to gather information
               necessary for the drafting, establishment, and maintenance of the comprehensive plan.
               Before adopting any such plan it shall hold at least one public hearing thereon.
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               (b)
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               The planning board shall have power to promote public interest in and an understanding
               of its recommendations, and to that end it may publish and distribute copies of its
               recommendations and may employ such other means of publicity and education as it may
               determine.
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               (c)
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               Members or employees of the planning board, when duly authorized by the planning board,
               may attend planning conferences or meetings of planning institutes or hearings upon
               pending planning legislation, and the planning board may, by formal and affirmative
               vote, pay, within the planning department's budget, the reasonable traveling expenses
               incident to such attendance.
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               (Ord. of 8-15-1986, Â§ 9; Ord. of 12-15-2009, Â§ 9)
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