Section 42.655 - Geographic information clearinghouse - Availability to state agencies - Administrative regulations(1) The geographic information clearinghouse maintained by the Division of Geographic Information Systems shall be the sole database of geographic information maintained by state agencies. The Division of Geographic Information Systems shall make the clearinghouse available to all state agencies.(2) The division shall make all reasonable efforts to collect and present geographic information in a manner that meets the needs of all state agencies.(3) Pursuant to the procedures described in KRS 12.090, any head of a state agency may request modifications to the methods of geographic information collection and presentation utilized by the Division of Geographic Information Systems to meet the needs of the state agency.(4) State agencies shall, whenever possible, request and use nonlicensed geographic information in order to allow the Division of Geographic Information Systems to effectively discharge its statutory responsibility to maintain an accurate and complete central statewide geographic information clearinghouse for official state use.(5) State agencies shall, whenever possible, consolidate their requests for the collection, purchase, or creation of geographic information into multiagency projects to minimize redundancy within the clearinghouse and to lower overall costs.(6) The Division of Geographic Information Systems may promulgate necessary administrative regulations for the furtherance of this section.Added by 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 229,§ 1, eff. 7/13/2022.