D.__Providing reasonable safeguards to protect confidentiality.

§2004. Liability

The geographic information board and any of the parties submitting data to the Maine Library of Geographic Information for public use may not be held liable for any use of those data.

§2005. Copyrights and fees

Copyright or licensing restrictions may not be fixed by the geographic information board or data custodians to the information made available through the Maine Library of Geographic Information.__The geographic information board may set fees for electronic copies of library data that are no more than 3 times the actual cost of reproduction.__Fee schedules must be set annually and made readily available to requestors.

SUBCHAPTER 5

APPEALS PROCESS

§2011. Appeals

Any state agency or semiautonomous state agency disagreeing with an action or decision of the Chief Information Officer as it affects that agency may appeal the decision in accordance with the provisions of this section.

1.__Appeal.__A state agency may appeal the decision or action of the Chief Information Officer to the commissioner.

2.__Appeal to Governor.__In the event that an agency is aggrieved by the decision of the commissioner, the agency may appeal to the Governor to alter the decision or action, and the decision of the Governor is final.

3.__Written decisions.__In responding to a state agency, the person or organization to whom the appeal has been made shall provide the decision in writing.__If the decision fails to uphold the state agency appeal, the decision must contain the specific reasons for the decision.

Sec. SS-17. 5 MRSA §12004-G, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 786, §5, is repealed.