Miscellaneous powers and duties of commission

A commission may promote public interest in and understanding of a plan and to that end may publish and distribute copies of a plan or of any report and may employ such other means of publicity and education as it may determine. Members of a commission, when duly authorized by a commission, may attend planning conferences or meetings of planning institutes or hearings upon pending planning legislation, and a commission may, by resolution spread upon its minutes, pay the reasonable traveling expenses incident to such attendance. A commission shall, from time to time, recommend to the appropriate public officials programs for public structures and improvements and for the financing thereof. It shall consult and advise with public officials and agencies, public-utility companies, civic, education, professional, and other organizations, and with citizens with relation to the protecting or carrying out of a plan. A commission may accept and use gifts for the exercise of its functions. All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to a commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work. A commission, its members, officers, and employees, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon. In general, a commission shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, promote planning, and in all respects carry out the purposes of this Sub-part.