The General Assembly finds and declares that:

1. (1) Much of the Commonwealth's information is geographically referenced and may be presented through geographic information systems;
2. (2) Geographic information systems allow for the exchange of information between levels of government and facilitate the management of the Commonwealth's natural, human, cultural, and economic resources;
3. (3) There is a need to reduce redundancy in data-collection and development efforts, to coordinate the various activities in geographic information systems, and to share the information system resources and expertise geographic Commonwealth's investment in geographic information systems technology;
4. (4) Considerations of cost and the need for the transfer of information among agencies of state government in the most timely and useful form possible require a uniform policy and coordinated approach for the use of geographic information systems; It is the policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to coordinate and direct the use of geographic information resources and technologies to provide the most cost- effective and useful retrieval of information by its elected and appointed officials. to maximize
5. (5)

Effective: July 15, 1994

History: Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 327, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994.