Section 122 - Vermont Center for Geographic Information, incorporated; establishment(a) The State of Vermont shall support a comprehensive strategy for the development and use of a geographic information system, including:(1) data and mapping standards;(2) potential applications and their priorities;(3) priorities for collecting and digitizing information;(4) geographic location standards for all data collection;(5) software and hardware standards;(7) private sector cooperation;(8) costs and benefits of use;(10) ways to make information gathered available to regional and municipal entities, commercial entities, the public, and others;(11) ways to ensure that data gathered by governmental entities conforms to the geographic information system; and(12) an implementation schedule.(b) In order to develop and implement that strategy, and to ensure that all data gathered by State agencies that is relevant to the VGIS shall be in a form that is compatible with, useful to, and shared with that geographic information system, there is hereby established the Vermont Center for Geographic Information (the Center) as a unit of the Data Management Division under the Agency of Digital Services.Amended by 2023 , No. 6, § 77, eff. 7/1/2023.Added 1993, No. 204 (Adj. Sess.) , § 2, eff. 6/17/1994; amended 2013, No. 179 (Adj. Sess.), § E.800. 1; 2018, No. 11 (Sp. Sess.), §F.101; 2019 , No. 49, § 6, eff. 6/10/2019.