Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 10, § 122

(1) The State of Vermont shall support a comprehensive strategy for the development and use of a geographic information system, including: 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(9) [Repealed.]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 assure that data gathered by governmental entities conforms to the geographic information system;

(12) an implementation schedule.

(13) 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.