§ 236. General powers. The body creating such planning commission may,
at any time, by ordinance or local law or resolution, provide that the
following matters, or any one or more of them, shall be referred for
report thereon, to such commission by the board, commission,
commissioner or other public officer or officers of said city or village
which is the final authority thereon before final action thereon by such
authority: the adoption of any map or plan of said city or incorporated
village, or part thereof, including drainage and sewer or water system
plans or maps, and plans or maps for any public water front, or marginal
street, or public structure upon, in or in connection with such front or
street, or for any dredging, filling or fixing of lines with relation to
said front; any change of any such maps or plans; the location of any
public structure upon, in or in connection with, or fixing lines with
relation to said front; the location of any public building, bridge,
statue or monument, highway, park, parkway, square, playground or
recreation ground, or public open place of said city or village. In
default of any such ordinance, local law or resolution all of said
matters shall be so referred to said planning commission.

The body creating such planning commission may, at any time, by
ordinance, local law or resolution, fix the time within which such
planning commission shall report upon any matter or class of matters to
be referred to it, with or without the further provision that in default
of report within the time so fixed, the planning commission shall
forfeit the right further to suspend action, as aforesaid with regard to
the particular matter upon which it has so defaulted. In default of any
such ordinance, local law or resolution, no such action shall be taken
until such report is so received, and no adoption, change, fixing or
location as aforesaid by said final authority, prior thereto, shall be
valid. No ordinance, local law or resolution shall deprive said planning
commission of its right or relieve it of its duty, to report, at such
time as it deems proper upon any matter at any time referred to it.

This section shall not be construed as intended to limit or impair the
power of any art commission, park commission or commissioner, now or
hereafter existing by virtue of any provision of law, to refuse consent
to the acceptance by any municipality of the gift of any work of art to
said municipality, without reference of the matter, by reason of its
proposed location or otherwise, to said planning commission. Nor shall
this section be construed as intended to limit or impair any other power
of any such art commission or affect the same, except in so far as it
provides for reference or report, or both, on any matter before final
action thereon by said art commission.