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mation as it may require for its work. The commission, its
members, officials and employees in the performance of
their functions, may -enter upon any land and make ex-
aminations and surveys and place and maintain necessary
monuments and marks thereon. In general, the commis-
sion shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable
it to fulfill its functions, promote state planning, or carry
out the purposes of this act.

Every state department, commission, board or official,
before requesting a legislative or executive approval of a
plan or the authorization of an appropriation for a major
public improvement related to or affected by any general
plain or plans prepared under authority of this act, or
before requesting a change of use or disposition of real
property owned by the state or in which the state has an
interest, shall make a written request to such planning
commission for its recommendations, and shall give such
commission a reasonable opportunity to study and make its
recommendations thereon.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, the State Plan-
ning Commission shall prepare and submit to the General
Assembly for adoption plans for a system of existing and
proposed state highways and parkways, together with regu-
lations essential to promote an appropriate, orderly and
co-ordinated development of lands along or adjacent to
such highways and parkways. Such plans and regulations
shall be designed to promote health, safety and the general
welfare; to facilitate the movement of through traffic; to
provide for the accommodation of local traffic, cross traffic
and traffic to and from the abutting frontages; to establish
front yard or setback lines along abutting frontages; to
regulate the location of filling stations, garages, lunch
stands, outdoor advertising signs and other uses of prop-
erty along the adjacent frontages; to regulate the sub-
division of land along or adjacent to such highways and
parkways; and to conserve scenic and historic places and
the natural beauty of the countryside. Such plans and reg-
ulations may be adjusted to the varying conditions
throughout the state and to the character of existing of-
ficial plans and regulations in force in any county or munici-
pality. Before approving of such plans and regulations for
submission to the General Assembly the Planning Com-
mission shall hold public hearings thereon. Such plans and
regulations when approved by the General Assembly shall
be known as the official state highway plan.