Hallsville Planning Commission to Approve Improvements: Commission Disapproval, How Overruled ordinance (§ 400.100)
Chapter 400: Planning and Zoning Regulations · Article III. City Plan and Zoning Plan
A. Whenever the Commission adopts the plan of the municipality or any part thereof, no street or other public facilities, or no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, and the location, extent and character thereof, having been included in the recommendations and proposals of the plan or portions thereof, shall be constructed or authorized in the municipality until the location, extent and character thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Planning Commission.
B. In case of disapproval, the Commission shall communicate its reasons to the Board, and the Board, by a vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership, may overrule the disapproval, and upon the overruling, the Board or the appropriate Board or Officer may proceed, except that if the public facility or utility is one that the authorization of financing of which does not fall within the province of the Board, then the submission to the Planning Commission shall be by the Board having jurisdiction, and the Planning Commission's disapproval may be overruled by that Board by a vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership.
C. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for sale or lease of any street or other public facility is subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approval may be similarly overruled.
D. The failure of the Commission to act within sixty (60) days after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval.
Official source: City of Hallsville official Code of Ordinances (online), § 400.100
Last checked November 1, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.