§ 18-6a-2

As used in the Cultural Properties Protection Act: A. 'committee' means the cultural properties review committee; B. 'cultural property' means a structure, place, site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific, architectural or other cultural significance; C. 'division' means the historic preservation division of the cultural affairs department; D. 'fund' means the cultural properties restoration fund; E. 'interpretation' means the inventory, registration, mapping and analysis of cultural properties and public educational programs designed to prevent the loss of cultural properties; F. 'officer' means the state historic preservation officer; G. 'preservation' means sustaining the existing form, integrity and material of a cultural property or the existing form and vegetative cover of a cultural property and may include protective maintenance or stabilization where necessary in the case of archaeological sites; H. 'professional survey' means an archaeological or architectural survey; I. 'protection' means safeguarding the physical condition or environment of a cultural property from deterioration or damage caused by weather or other natural, animal or human intrusions;

al survey; I. 'protection' means safeguarding the physical condition or environment of a cultural property from deterioration or damage caused by weather or other natural, animal or human intrusions; J. 'restoration' means recovering the general historic appearance of a cultural property or the form and details of an object or structure by removing incompatible natural or human-caused accretions and replacing missing elements as appropriate; K. 'stabilization' means reestablishing the structural stability or weather-resistant condition of a cultural property or arresting deterioration that may lead to structural failure; L. 'state agency' means a department, agency, institution or political subdivision of the state; and M. 'state land' means property owned, controlled or operated by a state agency. History: Laws 1993, ch. 176, § 2; 2004, ch. 25, § 35. ANNOTATIONSThe 2004 amendment, effective May 19, 2004, in Subsection C, changed 'office of cultural affairs' to 'cultural affairs department'.