Illinois § 10

§ 10.

Illinois Coordinate System Committee. (a) The Illinois Coordinate System Committee is hereby created. The Committee is created for the purpose of creating, reviewing, and revising the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. The Committee shall meet at the call of any designated member of the Committee. The Committee shall adopt an organizational structure as necessary for the fulfillment of its purpose. (b) The Committee shall consist of the following members: (1) the Secretary of Transportation, or the Secretary's designee, who shall serve as Chair; (2) the Director of the Illinois Center for Geographic Information, or the Director's designee; (3) the Director of Natural Resources, or the Director's designee; (4) the Executive Director of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, or the Executive Director's designee; (5) the Director of Agriculture, or the Director's designee; (6) one member of a statewide organization representing land surveyors, appointed by the Governor; (7) one member of a statewide organization made up of professionals who work with geographic information systems, appointed by the Governor; (8) the Director of the Illinois State Police or the Director's designee; and (9) one member of a statewide organization representing professional engineers appointed by the Governor. (c) The Committee shall engage with interested stakeholders throughout the State representing local, regional, State, and federal agencies; professional associations; academic institutions; and private sector companies, enterprises, and businesses. (d) The Committee shall create, review, and revise the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. This Act shall not be construed to prohibit the appropriate use of other datums, geodetic reference networks or systems, or other coordinate systems when made mathematically relatable to at least one coordinate reference system outlined in the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. The Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System shall: (1) define the various plane coordinate systems of the Illinois Coordinate System; (2) contain metadata to accompany the data from the Illinois Coordinate System, the Illinois State Plane Coordinate System, or from any other datum, network, or system intended to be a part of a public record; and (3) be made available to the public through the Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, or other public source approved by the Committee. (Source: P.A. 103-1029, eff. 1-1-25.)