8905, the National Geographic Institute is established as a dependency of the National Registry and that the Administrative Board of the National Registry shall administer the Institute's budget, sign the contracts and agreements necessary for the exercise of its functions. Likewise, it is established that the National Geographic Institute shall be the scientific and technical dependency governing national cartography, responsible for the execution of the official Basic Map and the basic geographic Description of the Republic of Costa Rica, and for the studies, investigations, or work and the development of national policies of a cartographic, geographic, geodetic, geophysical, and similar nature related to said works, in order to support planning processes.
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