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Dear Mr. Dahmer:

You have requested an opinion of the Attorney General regarding the legal authority under which you may reopen and computerize a mapping department within your office with the capability of producing ownership maps. You would like to establish this project with the Tangipahoa Parish Assessor (Assessor), thus enabling the assessor's office to provide information to the public more efficiently and with greater fairness concerning assessments. You further state that you would like your system, which is commonly known as a Geographic Information System (GIS), to be the central…