Code of Alabama
Article 2 - Regional Planning Commissions for Comprehensive Advisory Planning and Research.
Section 11-85-21 - Establishment of Region for Advisory Planning and Creation of Regional Planning Commission.

The governing bodies of any two or more governmental units are hereby authorized and empowered to create and establish a region for advisory planning purposes and to constitute, create, and establish a regional planning commission. Such joint creation and establishment of a region for planning purposes and of a regional planning commission shall be accomplished by ordinance or resolution separately adopted by the governing body of each governmental unit involved. Such ordinance or resolution shall be recorded in the minutes of the governing body of each such governmental unit.