[MC 1984-13, § 3, June 18, 1984]
(a) 
Within the Office of the Mayor, there shall be established the Plainfield Cultural and Heritage Commission, the functions, duties, responsibilities, and powers of which shall be:
(1) 
To render advice to the Mayor, City Administrator, and the City Council on matters dealing with establishing and maintaining a municipal policy towards the Arts, and to generally serve as an advocate for the Arts in the City;
(2) 
To enhance and create opportunities for our citizens to enjoy and participate in cultural activities throughout the community;
(3) 
To recruit and direct organizational and individual interest in, and support for, the Arts within the City;
(4) 
To provide a coordinating agency for successful organizational, corporate and individual cultural efforts within the City, to assume the responsibility for disseminating information concerning cultural activities with the objective of avoiding competitive scheduling;
(5) 
To organize support groups of volunteers to work with the committee;
(6) 
To encourage awareness of community cultural activities in the young;
(7) 
To establish their own by-laws, rules and regulations for the con-duct of its business, within sixty (60) days of the adoption of this Ordinance.
(b) 
The Commission may solicit, receive and turn over to the City Comptroller, for administration and investment by the City as provided by Chapter 2, and disburse for stipulated purposes, such dedicated funds as may be donated to the City for the advancement of specific projects, or for the general purposes of the committee.
(c) 
The Commission shall have the authority and responsibility for seeking outside private and public funding to support the Arts in the City, and will serve as a formal link between the City government and the various cultural activities within the community.
(d) 
In order to promote an effective budgetary, administrative and in-vestment process as referred to in Subsection (b) above, the City Comptroller shall maintain a minimum of two (2) accounts, one of which shall be used exclusively for all City appropriations to the Commission, the remaining account shall be used exclusively for all funds generated by the Commission, including, but not limited to, grants and donations, whether private or public in nature.
(e) 
The Commission shall have the authority to establish a private non-profit corporation by the laws of the State of New Jersey, said private non-profit corporation shall be designated to raise funds for the advancement of the arts in the City through private, public and for governmental agencies and, when incorporated, shall be known as the Queen City Coalition of the Arts.
(f) 
The Commission shall, whenever requested by the City Council, prepare and provide status reports, which shall set out, among other things, the financial condition of the Commission, the programs instituted, and any other information requested by the Council.
[MC 1984-13, § 3, June 18, 1984]
(a) 
The Commission shall consist of not more than twenty (20) members, all of whom shall be residents of the City. The members shall be recommended to the Mayor by the Commission, and said appointments shall then be submitted by the Mayor for advice and consent of the City Council.
(b) 
Each member shall serve for a term of three (3) years and until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor; the initial term of the members shall be as follows: seven (7) for a term of three (3) years; seven (7) for a term of two (2) years; and six (6) for a term of one (1) year.
(c) 
All members of the Commission shall serve without compensation.