(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(9) [Repealed.]
(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.
(c) [Repealed.]