Section 1210. Pennsylvania System of Coordinates.--The Department of Community Affairs shall have power, and its duty shall be, to establish and regulate the establishment in this Commonwealth of the system of rectangular coordinates which has been established and adopted by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for defining and stating the positions and location of points on the surface of the earth, to establish or fix triangulation and traverse stations, to collect, check, coordinate and preserve survey data, to advise with parties using the system of coordinates, to supervise the marking of surveys which are to become a part of the system, to keep official records of all surveys and maps, to administer the law establishing the "Pennsylvania Coordinate System," and to adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry these powers into effect, and to administer the law relating to the "Pennsylvania Coordinate System."
(1210 amended Dec. 18, 1968, P.L.1232, No.390)
Compiler's Note: Section 301(a)(16) of Act 58 of 1996, which created the Department of Community and Economic Development and abolished the Department of Community Affairs, provided that all other powers and duties delegated to the Department of Community Affairs not otherwise expressly transferred elsewhere by Act 58 and currently performed by the Department of Community Affairs under section 1210 are transferred from the Department of Community Affairs to the Department of Community and Economic Development.
Section 304 of Act 58 of 1996 provided that the establishment of the Pennsylvania Coordinate System under section 1210 is transferred from the Department of Community Affairs to the Department of Transportation.
Compiler's Note: Reorganization Plan No. 9 of 1981 (1982 P.L.1481) transferred the functions, powers and duties of the Department of Community Affairs with regard to the State Plane Coordinate System to the Department of Transportation.