On May 22, 2008, the governor signed Act 164, which alters the law concerning the use of state plane coordinates (among many transportation related provisions). The law altered is contained in Title 1 (General Provisions) Chapter 17 (Vermont Coordinate System).
Sec. 39.1 V.S.A. § 671 is amended to read:
§ 671. VERMONT COORDINATE SYSTEMS DEFINED
The systems of plane coordinates which have been established by the National Ocean Service/National Geodetic Survey (formerly the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) or its successors for defining and stating the horizontal positions or locations of points on the surface of the earth within the state of Vermont are hereafter to be known and designated as the "Vermont Coordinate System 1927 and the Vermont Coordinate System 1983." The term "Vermont Coordinate System" is synonymous with the term "Vermont State Plane Coordinate System."
Sec. 40.1 V.S.A. § 672 is amended to read:
§ 672. COORDINATES DEFINED
The plane coordinate values for a
point on the earth's surface, used to express the horizontal position or
location of such point on the Vermont Coordinate Systems, shall consist of two
distances, expressed in U.S. Survey feet and decimals of a foot when using the
Vermont Coordinate System 1927 and expressed in meters and decimals of a meter,
or U.S. Survey Feet and decimals of a foot when using the Vermont
Coordinate System 1983. One of these distances, to be known as the "x-coordinate,"
shall give the position in an east-and-west direction; the other, to be known
as the "y-coordinate," shall give the position in a north-and-south direction. These
coordinates shall be made to depend upon and conform to plane rectangular
coordinate values for the monumented points of the North American Horizontal
Geodetic Control Network National Spatial Reference System established
by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, its predecessor, or its
successors.