§ 4304 - Planning and land use manual
§ 4304. Planning and land use manual
(a) The agency of commerce and community development shall prepare, maintain and distribute from time to time to all municipalities a manual setting forth:
(1) A copy of this chapter, together with all amendments thereof;
(2) Examples of land planning policies, and maps and documents prepared in conformance with plan requirements;
(3) An explanation and illustrative examples of bylaws, capital programs and budgets and procedures authorized in this chapter;
(4) Other explanatory material and data which will aid municipalities in the preparation of plans, capital budgets and programs and the administration of bylaws authorized in this chapter.
(b) The agency of commerce and community development shall, from time to time, confer with interested persons with a view toward insuring the maintenance of such manual in a form most useful to those regions and municipalities making use of it.
(c) Sections of this manual may be cited in any plan or by-law in the same manner as citations of this chapter, and may be incorporated by reference in any plan by-law. (Added 1967, No. 334 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 23, 1968; amended 1971, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), § 22, eff. April 11, 1972; 1975, No. 164 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1995, No. 190 (Adj. Sess.), § 1(a).)