18-6A-2: Definitions.

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;

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.