§ 3409 - Preparation of property maps - Vermont Statutes

§ 3409. Preparation of property maps

Consistent with available resources and pursuant to a memorandum of understanding entered into between the commissioner and the Vermont center for geographic information, the center shall provide regional planning commissions, state agencies, and the general public with orthophotographic maps of the state at a scale appropriate for the production and revision of town property maps. Periodically, such maps shall be revised and updated to reflect land use changes, new settlement patterns and such additional information as may have become available to the director or the center.

(1) The center shall supply to the clerk and to the listers or assessors of each town such maps as have been prepared by it of the total area of that town. Any map shall be available, without charge, for public inspection in the office of the town clerk to whom the map was supplied.

(2) The state of Vermont shall retain the copyright of any map prepared by the Vermont mapping program, and the center and the Vermont mapping program shall jointly own the copyright to any map prepared on or after the effective date of this act.

(3) A person who, without the written authorization of the director and the center, copies, reprints, duplicates, sells, or attempts to sell any map prepared under this chapter shall be fined an amount not to exceed $1,000.00.

(4) At a reasonable charge to be established by the center and the director, the center shall supply to any person or agency other than a town clerk or lister a copy of any map prepared under this section. (Added 1967, No. 146, § 3, eff. July 1, 1968; amended 1977, No. 105, § 14(a); 1987, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.), § 71, eff. June 13, 1988; 2009, No. 1 (Sp. Sess.), § H.21, eff. June 2, 2009.)