Maryland State Government Section 10-901

      (a)      In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

      (b)      "Cost of providing a system product" means the cost to create, develop, and reproduce the product in printed or hard copy form.

      (c)      "Cost of providing a system service" means the actual cost of providing the service, including a reasonable share of the overhead costs of the system.

      (d)      "Governmental unit" means:

            (1)      the State or a political subdivision, unit, or instrumentality of the State;

            (2)      a unit or instrumentality of a political subdivision of the State;

            (3)      a bicounty agency; or

            (4)      a combination of the entities specified in items (1) through (3) of this subsection.

      (e)      "Overhead costs of the system" includes the costs of:

            (1)      data gathering and entry;

            (2)      data base maintenance and update;

            (3)      hardware;

            (4)      quality control;

            (5)      software; and

            (6)      indirect costs.

      (f)      (1)      "System" means an automated mapping-geographic information system in which geographically referenced data:

                  (i)      are entered and stored electronically; and

                  (ii)      can be manipulated to display selected geographic data.

            (2)      "System" includes data that define physical and nonphysical elements of geographically referenced areas.

      (g)      "System products" means drawings, lists, maps, narrative descriptions, photographs, or other hard copy formats that depict spatial data.

      (h)      "System services" means:

            (1)      electronic access to data in the system;

            (2)      on-line access to data in the system; and

            (3)      software programs to access data in the system.