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local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under
authority of this Article shall govern. Wherever the provisions of any
other statute or local ordinance or regulation require a greater width or
size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height of
building or a less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot
to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required
by the regulations made under authority of this Article, the provisions of
such statute or local ordinance or regulation shall govern.

PLANNING.

Title I. Municipal Planning and Zoning Commissions.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 1.

10. (Definitions.) For the purpose of this sub-title certain terms are
defined as provided in this section. Whenever appropriate the singular
includes the plural and the plural includes the singular. "Municipality"
or "municipal" includes or relates to counties, towns, villages or other
incorporated political subdivisions. "Mayor" means the chief executive
of the political subdivision, whether the official designation of his office be
Mayor, City Manager or otherwise. "Council" means the chief legislative
body of the political subdivision. The term "streets" includes streets, ave-
nues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys, viaducts and other public ways.
"Subdivision" means the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two
or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of sale or of building development. It includes re-
subdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process
of subdividing or to the land or territory subdivided.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 2.

11. (Grant of Power to Municipality.) Any municipality is hereby
authorized and empowered to make, adopt, amend, extend, add to, or carry
out a municipal plan as provided in this sub-title and create by ordinance
a Planning Commission with the powers and duties herein set forth. The
Planning Commission of a city shall be designated City Planning Com-
mission ; of a town or village, Town or Village Planning Commission; and
of any other municipality, such designation as its council may specify.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 3.

12. (Personnel of the Commission.) The Commission shall consist of
five members, namely, a member of the Council and four persons who shall
be appointed by the mayor, and confirmed by the council, if the mayor be
an elective officer, otherwise by such officer as council may in the ordinance
creating the Commission designate as the appointing power. All members
of the Commission shall serve as such without compensation. The term of
the ex-officio member shall correspond to his official tenure. The term of
each member shall be five years or until his successor takes office, except
that the respective terms of the five members first appointed shall be one,
two, three, four, and five years. Members may, after a public hearing,
be removed by the council for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance
in office. The council shall file a written statement of reasons for such re-