HB 302 AN ACT relating to the Kentucky State Plane Coordinate System

About HB-302

Amend KRS 1.010 to delete reference to the Kentucky Coordinate System of 1983 and replace with the Kentucky State Plane Coordinate System; and amend KRS 1.020 to delete reference to the Kentucky Coordinate System of 1983 and replace with the Kentucky State Plane Coordinate System; to replace reference to the National Ocean Service with reference to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through its National Geodetic Survey; to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and publish a series of layered zones covered by geodetically referenced mapping projections adopted by the National Geodetic Survey; to provide updated means for converting meters to feet; to set parameters for plane coordinate values; to require coordinates based on the Kentucky State Plane Coordinate System that define a position of a corner on a land boundary to be tied to a control monument or station established by conforming to the standards of accuracy for boundary surveying as specified through administrative regulation; and to allow the use of other geodetic reference networks.