Title 45

The jurisdiction of the planning commission shall extend to all areas of the county outside the boundaries of municipal corporations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, where a municipality exercises planning and zoning powers in any area outside its municipal boundaries, those areas…

The planning commission shall elect its chair and create and fill such other offices as it may determine. The term of chair shall be for one year, with eligibility for reelection. The planning commission shall hold at least one regular meeting each month. It shall adopt bylaws fo…

The planning commission may appoint, promote, demote, and remove any employees it deems necessary for its work. The planning commission may contract with county or city planners, engineers, architects, and other consultants and with any local, state, or federal agency for such se…

It shall be the function and duty of the planning commission to make and maintain in an up-to-date manner a master plan and to adopt appropriate zoning regulations as provided by Section 45–57–260.08 for the physical development of the county. The plan and regulations with the ac…

In the preparation of the master plan and zoning regulations, the planning commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the present conditions existing within the county with due regard to existing agricultural uses, to land by virtue of its fertility, p…

No master plan or zoning regulations proposed by the planning commission shall become effective until approved by the county commission. Once the county commission approves a master plan or zoning regulations, as soon as possible thereafter, the county commission shall implement …

The planning commission shall adopt a code of regulations applicable to the subdivision of land. Plats of subdivisions, after the adoption of the code of regulations, shall not be accepted for filing and recording in the probate office until they have been approved in a manner to…

For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the county, the planning commission may divide the portion of the county within its zoning jurisdiction into districts of such number, shape, and area as may be found best suit…

Once zoning regulations have become applicable, they shall not be changed by the planning commission until the proposed change has been published for three weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the county together with a notice stating the time and place that the cha…

No zoning regulation adopted by the planning commission shall change any use to which land is being made at the time the zoning regulations become applicable in the county. (Act 95–573, p. 1198, § 11.)

In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, with the exception of those buildings or structures excluded in Section 45-57-260.08, or any subdivision is established, or land used in violation of this articl…

(a) The planning commission, in appropriate cases and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, may make special exceptions to the terms of the zoning regulations in harmony with its general purposes and interests and in accordance with general or specific rules adopted b…

Any party aggrieved by any final judgment or decision of the planning commission pursuant to Section 45–57–260.12, within 15 days thereafter, may appeal, which appeal shall rest upon the contention that the zoning regulations in question are unreasonable, discriminatory, unconsti…

This article shall grant to the Russell County Planning Commission all the power and provisions for planning, zoning, and subdivisions as contained in Chapter 52 of Title 11. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the planning commission, on zoning changes, serves in an advisory capacity…