2025 Texas Statutes
Education Code
Title 3 - Higher Education
Subtitle D - The Texas a & M University System
Chapter 88 - Agencies and Services of the Texas a & M University System
Subchapter E. Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Section 88.503. Spatial Reference Center

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TX Educ Code § 88.503 (2025)
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Sec. 88.503. SPATIAL REFERENCE CENTER. (a) The board may create and operate a spatial reference center at Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi for the purpose of:

(1) facilitating the federal height modernization project for the state;

(2) conducting basic and applied research regarding elevation and geodetic and vertical datums in the state;

(3) collecting geodetic data for state mapping and control; and

(4) establishing and maintaining an official digital spatial reference system for the state, in coordination with:

(A) the United States National Geodetic Survey;

(B) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and

(C) the Texas Water Development Board.

(b) The board shall adopt rules relating to the operation of the spatial reference center.

(c) The spatial reference center may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and appropriations for the purposes of this section.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1323 (S.B. 1436), Sec. 13, eff. September 1, 2007.

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