§ 122 - Vermont center for geographic information, incorporated; establishment - Vermont Statutes

§ 122. Vermont center for geographic information, incorporated; establishment TITLE 10Conservation and DevelopmentPART IDevelopment of ResourcesCHAPTER 8. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

§ 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.

(6) Management needs.

(7) Private sector cooperation.

(8) Costs and benefits of use.

(9) Financing considerations.

(10) Ways to make information gathered available to regional and municipal entities, commercial entities, the public, and others.

(11) Ways to assure that data gathered by governmental entities conforms to the geographic information system.

(12) An implementation schedule.

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 a nonprofit public corporation to be known as the Vermont center for geographic information, hereinafter called the center, as a body corporate and politic and a public instrumentality of the state.

(b) The center shall be a nonprofit corporation and shall not have authority to issue any capital stock. The property of the center shall be used solely to promote its purposes as herein defined. The center shall assume title to property other than the data acquired by the state for the support of a geographic information system, but shall return title to such property to the state if the property is not used to promote the center's purposes as herein defined or upon any dissolution of the corporation. No part of the activities of the center shall consist of participating in or intervening in, including the publishing or distribution of statements, any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office. Upon any dissolution of the corporation, any assets remaining after payment of or provision for its debts and liabilities shall be distributed according to applicable provisions of state law. No part of the net assets or net earnings of the center shall inure to the benefit of or be paid or distributed to any officer, director, or employee of the center, or to any donor to the center. The state reserves the right at any time to alter, amend, repeal or otherwise change the structure, organization, programs or activities of the center, including the power to terminate the corporation, subject to any limitation on the impairment of the obligations of any contract or contracts entered into by the center. (Added 1993, No. 204 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. June 17, 1994.)