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<section number="2-544" name="Definitions" law="code" slug="sec-2-544" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_2AD_DIV48OPDA_S2-544DE">
  <text>In this section, the following words and phrases have the following meanings indicated:</text>
  <level label="a">
    <text>"Agency" means any department or office of the County Government.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>"Data" means the final version of digital information regularly created or maintained by or on behalf of and owned by the County that records a file, measurement, transaction, or final decision related to the mission of an agency.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>"Data" does not include any information provided to an agency by another government entity, information that may not be made available for privacy or security reasons, or data otherwise protected by law.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>"Measurement" means to quantify any characteristic of an observable event, occurrence, or object by comparison to a reference standard.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>"Open data plan" means a plan developed by the County Executive or their designee to implement this title.</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>"Public Data Set" means data identified as eligible for publication by the Open Data Plan.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>"Public Data Set" does not include any portion of a data set that is not subject to disclosure under any federal or state law or any data that is subject to copyright or trademark protections.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>"Web portal" means a specifically designed website platform that brings information from diverse sources and serves as the single point of access for the information.</text>
  </level>
</section>
