New Jersey § 52:18a-234

§ 52:18a-234.

a. A Chief Data Officer shall be appointed by the Chief Technology Officer, after

consultation with the State Treasurer. The Chief Data Officer, in cooperation with the State Treasurer, shall be responsible

for overseeing and implementing a unique, dedicated open data website and any additional

or existing open data websites linked thereto by an agency. The Chief Data Officer shall have the authority to: (1) establish, in consultation with the Attorney General, procedures, standards, and

best practices regarding the appropriate access and presentation of open data and

datasets by each agency; (2) develop a dataset format standard to be used by all agencies in providing their

datasets to the Chief Data Officer, or in making their data available on their own

websites, and ensure that under the standard, the datasets shall be accessible in

a non-proprietary, machine-readable format that is compliant with federal and State

accessibility rules and requirements and implemented on a schedule deemed appropriate

by the Chief Data Officer; (3) monitor and ensure compliance with the procedures, standards, and policies adopted

pursuant to this act; (4) provide such management and technical assistance as the Chief Data Officer deems

necessary to ensure that there is ready access to the open data and datasets available

to the public and agencies; and (5) develop, in conjunction with the Attorney General, a methodology to review and

reconcile inter-agency disputes regarding access to open data and datasets, and privacy

issues. b. The Chief Data Officer, with the cooperation of the State Treasurer, shall be responsible

for: (1) creating and maintaining a unique, dedicated website that either provides datasets

maintained and provided by agencies or searchable links to datasets hosted by agency

websites; (2) updating datasets and links as they are provided by an agency; and (3) monitoring agency websites to make certain they follow the policies and procedures

established by the Chief Data Officer pursuant to this section. The State Treasurer and an agency may, pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,”

P.L.1968, c. 410 ( C.52:14B-1 et seq. ), adopt such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to effectuate the purposes

of this act.