Organization and Description

PURPOSE: This rule describes the scope, mission, and goals of the Cadastral Mapping Survey Standards. (1) Scope—This standard describes digital cadastral mapping system components, content, design, and creation. (2) Mission—To provide a standard for the definition and structure of digital cadastral data in order to facilitate data compatibility, and to protect and enhance the investments in digital cadastral data at all levels of government and the private sector. (3) Goals— (A) To provide common definitions for cadastral information found in public records, used to create the digital cadastre; (B) To resolve discrepancies related to the use of homonyms and synonyms in land record systems, to minimize duplication within and among those systems; (C) To provide guidance and direction for land records, mapping, and land surveying professionals on standardized attribute values and definitions, to improve land records creation, management; and (D) To use participatory involvement in the standard development to reach out to organizations to encourage broadly based application of the standard. AUTHORITY: section 60.670, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed Dec. 1, 2016, effective June 30, 2017. *Original authority: 60.670, RSMo 2010, amended 2013.